Bio
Braulio Munoz is a Chilean native, who was trained as an undergraduate and Ph.D. student by Dr. Luis Aguayo at the University of Concepcion in Chile, then he moved to the USA to complete a postdoctoral appointee with Dr. Brady Atwood at Indiana University in the USA. Dr.Munoz's personal life, he loves Star Wars, Lego playsets, also he enjoys cooking, grunge music, play videogames with his children and the most important is to spend time with his wife.
Key Publications
Muñoz B, Gallegos S, Peters C, Murath P, Lovinger DM, Homanics GE and Aguayo LG. (2019). Influence of nonsynaptic α1 glycine receptors on ethanol consumption and place preference. Addiction Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/adb.12726
Muñoz B, Fritz BM, Yin F and Atwood BK. (2018). Alcohol exposure disrupts mu opioid receptor-mediated long-term depression at insular cortex inputs to dorsolateral striatum. Nature Communications. 9(1): 1318.
Muñoz B, Haggerty D and Atwood BK. Synapse-specific expression of mu opioid receptor long-term depression in the dorsomedial striatum. Scientific Reports. 10 (1):7234. (2020). PMID: 32350330
Titles & Appointments
- Assistant Research Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology
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