Hilarie Tomasiewicz, B.S.
M.D./Ph.D. Student, Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therepautics

E-mail: hilarie.tomasiewicz@mssm.edu

Mailing Address

One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1603, New York NY 10029

Location

Annenberg Building, 1468 Madison Avenue, Room 19-76

Training and Education

M.D./Ph.D. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

Research Assistant (2001 – 2004) McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA

B.S. (2001) Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Research Interests

My broad research interest lies in identifying risk factors that underlie substance abuse vulnerability. Specifically, I am interested in understanding how adolescent cannabis exposure affects the developing brain and how it may contribute to subsequent risk for substance abuse/affective disorders.

Selected Publications

Paine TA, Tomasiewicz HC, Zhang K, Carlezon WA Jr. Sensitivity of the 5-choice serial reaction time task to the effects of various psychotropic drugs in Sprague-Dawley rats. 2007 Biol Psychiatry 62(6):687-93

Tomasiewicz HC, Mague SD, Cohen BM, Carlezon WA Jr. Behavioral effects of short-term administration of lithium and valproic acid in rats. Brain Res. 2006 Jun 6;1093(1):83-94.

Carlezon WA Jr, Rohan ML, Mague SD, Meloni EG, Parsegian A, Cayetano K, Tomasiewicz HC, Rouse ED, Cohen BM, Renshaw PF. Antidepressant-like effects of cranial stimulation within a low-energy magnetic field in rats. Biol Psychiatry. 2005 Mar 15;57(6):571-6.

Mague SD, Pliakas AM, Todtenkopf MS, Tomasiewicz HC, Zhang Y, Stevens WC Jr, Jones RM, Portoghese PS, Carlezon WA Jr. Antidepressant-like effects of kappa-opioid receptor antagonists in the forced swim test in rats. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2003 Apr;305(1):323-30.