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Associate Attending Psychiatrist
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry
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Herrera, Daniel Gustavo
 (212) 746-5884 
I was born and grew up in Argentina where economical adversity is a routine event. Even in that environment, I was among the more economically disadvantaged and, as a consequence, was awarded one of the very few studentships available, having met criteria for both low family income and excellent academic achievements. I graduated at the top of my class of approximately 700 students. Then, for better or for worse, I was interested in neuroscience research in a medical school that has three Nobel Prize awardees. The economical crises made it impossible to do research and very difficult to practice medicine. I was given a Killam Award Fellowship at Dalhousie University where, with Dr. Harry Robertson, I started a remarkable new journey into the study of immediate early genes in the brain. At McGill University, I received my Ph.D. thanks to a generous award from Buroughs, and remained under the supervision of Dr. A.C. Cuello until coming to the United States to complete my training to become a physician-scientist. I spent my internship year at Yale University and then joined what was then known as ?The New York Hospital?. I double-trained in Neurology and Psychiatry. I had the privilege of training in Neurology with
Dr. Fred Plum, whom I consider, along with Drs. Robertson and Cuello, as my mentors. At the same time, between calls, I worked with Dr. Arturo Alvarez-Buylla at Rockefeller University on neural stem cells and brain injury.
I am now a board-certified neurologist and psychiatrist who is working on the topic of production of new neurons (neurogenesis) in the adult brain and how this process is affected in neuropsychiatric disorders. Upon completion of my clinical training, I pursued the study of this very interesting phenomenon. I did post-doctoral research training with the leading scientists in the field: Dr. Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, formerly at Rockefeller University and now at UCSF; Dr. J. Garcia-Verdugo, the top electron microscopist studying neural stem cells; and Dr. Angelo Vescovi in Milan, head of one of the best groups dedicated to the in vitro study of neural stem cells. Recent research from my laboratory, in collaboration with European colleagues, has shown that neurogenesis in the hippocampus is selectively affected by alcohol.
To learn more please see the Research Profile.
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M.D., University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Medicine (Argentina), 1985
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Ph.D., McGill University (Canada), 1992
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