Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Fresco Institute for Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders
Dr. Tritsch grew up in France and moved to the States at 16. He obtained a B.S. in Immunology and M.S. in Neuroscience from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, before earning a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Before joining NYU in 2016, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
The Tritsch lab aims to examine how a group of evolutionarily conserved brain areas known as the basal ganglia (BG) controls behavior in mice. The BG are critical for the selection, execution and reinforcement of motor actions, and their dysfunction in humans is implicated in several neurological illnesses, including Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, dystonia, drug addiction, and obsessive-compulsive disorders; however, the precise mechanisms employed by the BG to influence habitual and goal-directed movements in health and disease remain poorly understood.
