Gul Dolen
Johns Hopkins University · Microbiology and Immunology
Active 2002–2026
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About
Dr. Gül Dolen is a Professor and the Bob & Renee Parsons Endowed Chair in the Department of Neuroscience and Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also affiliated with the Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. Additionally, Dr. Dolen maintains an Adjunct Professorship in Neuroscience and Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on understanding neural mechanisms, and she has received numerous prestigious awards including the Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award, the Conquer Fragile X Rising Star Award, the Angus MacDonald Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the Society for Social Neuroscience Early Career Award, the Searle Scholars Award, and the Johns Hopkins University President’s Frontier Award.
Research topics
- Neuroscience
- Biology
- Psychology
- Medicine
- Bioinformatics
Selected publications
Psychedelics Reopen the Social Reward Learning Critical Period
Figshare · 2023-01-01
datasetOpen accessSenior authorSupplementary code for data analysis
Mind Reading Emerged at Least Twice in the Course of Evolution
Yale University Press eBooks · 2019-12-31
article1st authorCorrespondingElsevier eBooks · 2016-01-01
book-chapterPathophysiological Toolkit: Genes to Circuits
Translational Neuroscience · 2015-08-21
book-chapterOpen access1st authorCorresponding
Recent grants
Dissecting the role of vasopressin in regulating the critical period for social reward learning
NIH · $1.7M · 2019–2025
NIH · $262k · 2008
NIH · $958k · 2018–2021
Frequent coauthors
- 38 shared
Mark F. Bear
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 37 shared
E. Lewis
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- 35 shared
Loyal A. Goff
Johns Hopkins University
- 31 shared
Romain Nardou
Johns Hopkins University
- 29 shared
Genevieve Stein-O’Brien
- 22 shared
Alejandra V. Patino
Duke University
- 22 shared
Cooper D. Grossman
California Institute of Technology
- 15 shared
Daniel Giovinazzo
Johns Hopkins Medicine
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