I am a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New Mexico Health Science Campus and I am interested in how alcohol affects cognition. Broadly, I hope to utilize cutting-edge in vivo electrophysiology recording techniques and analysis methods to further our understanding of how acute alcohol intoxication affects decision making, memory, and inhibition.
An updated CV can be found here here and an NIH Biosketch can be found here.
Morningstar, M. D., Barnett, W. H., Goodlett, C. R., Kuznetsov, A., & Lapish, C. C. (2021). Understanding ethanol's acute effects on medial prefrontal cortex neural activity using state-space approaches. Neuropharmacology, 198, 108780.
De Falco, E, White, SM, Morningstar, M.D., et al. (2021), Impaired cognitive flexibility and heightened urgency are associated with increased alcohol consumption in rodent models of excessive drinking. Addiction Biology.
Morningstar, M.D., Linsenbardt, D.N. and Lapish, C.C. (2020), Ethanol Alters Variability, But Not Rate, of Firing in Medial Prefrontal Cortex Neurons of Awake‐Behaving Rats. Alcohol Clin Exp Res.
Keesom SM, Morningstar M.D., Sandlain R, Wise BM, Hurley LM. (2018). Social isolation reduces serotonergic fiber density in the inferior colliculus of female, but not male, mice. Brain Research.
Email: mdmornin AT iu dot edu