Don Katz

Professor
Psychology
Brandeis University
United States of America

Academician Psychiatry
Biography

"Don Katz presently working as Professor of Psycology at Brandeis University. He completed his Ph.D from Indiana University." Dr. Katz teaches behavioral neuroscience, and studies what makes foods taste good or bad. Research Interest Neural dynamics of gustatory perception and learning. Awards and Honors Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer '69 and Joseph Neubauer Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring (2013) NIH/NSF CRCNS award (with Paul Miller) (2009 - 2013) Pollack Prize--Most Exciting Work by a Young Investigator (AChemS) (2007) NIH grant, Temporal coding and palatability in gustatory cortex (2006 - 2011) Student Union Teaching Award (2006) NIH grant, Time and forebrain coding of taste learning (2005 - 2010) Walzer Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship (2005)

Research Intrest

Neural dynamics of gustatory perception and learning.

List of Publications
Levitan D, Fortis-Santiago Y, Figueroa JA, Reid EE, Yoshida T, Barry NC, Russo A, Katz DB. Memory Retrieval Has a Dynamic Influence on the Maintenance Mechanisms That Are Sensitive to ζ-Inhibitory Peptide (ZIP). Journal of Neuroscience. 2016 Oct 12;36(41):10654-62.
Baez-Santiago MA, Reid EE, Moran A, Maier JX, Marrero-Garcia Y, Katz DB. Dynamic taste responses of parabrachial pontine neurons in awake rats. Journal of neurophysiology. 2016 Mar 1;115(3):1314-23.
Flores VL, Moran A, Bernstein M, Katz DB. Preexposure to salty and sour taste enhances conditioned taste aversion to novel sucrose. Learning & Memory. 2016 May 1;23(5):221-8.