Liam Conaboy

Liam Conaboy is a Ph.D. student in the Psychology Department at UC San Diego. He studies neuropsychopharmacology in the Molecular Cognition Laboratory with Dr. Stephan Anagnostaras. He is interested in a transdisciplinary approach to understanding complex biopsychological relationships between organisms and the bioactive substances in their environment. Conaboy is currently seeking deeper understanding of sustained alterations to neurocircuitry resulting from psychostimulant and opioid addiction. In addition to studying the neurocircuitry of addiction, he also studies the effects of psychedelic drugs such as LSD, MDMA, and psilocybin on the brain and behavior and conducts preclinical investigation into whether and how they may be efficacious in the treatment of neurobiologically-based symptoms of addiction and its common psychiatric comorbidities such as mood disorders. Liam also has an interest in ancient pharmacology: how drug use comes to be, how it shapes societies, modern minds, and the stories we tell.