Patricia Janak is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University who studies the biological basis of behavior through associative learning.
17 Facts About Patricia Janak
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Patricia Janak was born in 1965 to Peter Patricia Janak and Bonnie Stringfellow.
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Patricia Janak began training in biological science and behavioral science as an undergraduate double major in Biology and Psychology at Rutgers University.
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Patricia Janak earned master's and doctoral degrees in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, the latter under Joe L Martinez Jr.
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Patricia Janak completed post-doctoral work at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a branch of the National Institutes of Health, and in physiology and pharmacology at the Wake Forest School of Medicine under the guidance of Donald J Woodward, who pioneered the development of "awake-animal behavioral and multi-neuronal recording techniques" in the 1990s.
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Patricia Janak joined the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco as an assistant professor in the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center in 1999.
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Patricia Janak was named the Howard J Weinberger Endowed Chair in Addiction Research at USCF in 2011.
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In June 2014, Patricia Janak was named a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University for her accomplishments as an interdisciplinary researcher and excellence in teaching.
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Patricia Janak is an investigator in the field of the biological basis of behavior working on associative learning.
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Patricia Janak has a demonstrated interest in a translational approach to clinical conditions.
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Patricia Janak's most cited article, titled, "A causal link between prediction errors, dopamine neurons and learning," was published in 2013 in Nature Neuroscience.
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Patricia Janak has 102 total publications, including 11 review papers, with more than 3300 total citations and an H index of 38.
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Patricia Janak has been a member of the Society for Neuroscience since 1987 and the Research Society on Alcoholism since 1994.
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Patricia Janak has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses on a variety of topics including psychology, data analysis, behavioral neuroscience, and drug addiction.
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At Johns Hopkins, Patricia Janak is teaching graduate psychology and neuroscience courses and an undergraduate course on learning and memory, and actively participating in the interdisciplinary Science of Learning Institute.
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In 2023 Patricia Janak was awarded Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Patricia Janak has more than 15,000 citations in Google Scholar and an h-index of 68.