Michael Totty

I’m a computational and behavioral neuroscientist interested in reverse-translating neural circuit dysregulation in psychiatric disorders. My research approach leverages a two-pronged strategy of (1) identifying cell types and circuits that are impaired in postmortem human brains with psychiatric disease, and (2) determining the functional consequences of these cell type and circuit impairments in pre-clinical models. I am additionally interested in the development of novel computational methods and data resources towards the advancement of these goals.

Currently, I’m an NIMH F32 Kirschtein-NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, advised by Dr. Stephanie Hicks and co-advised by Dr. Keri Martinowich of the Lieber Institute for Brain Development. I previously received my PhD in Neuroscience under the mentorship of Dr. Stephen Maren at the Institute for Neuroscience at Texas A&M University in 2022, and a BS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Tennessee in 2016.