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Dr. Jason Snyder is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and a member of the Centre for Brain Health. He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto (2005). His research focuses on hippocampal neurogenesis and its role in memory, decision-making, and stress-related behaviors. Snyder uses transgenic animals, viral tools, immunohistochemistry, and electrophysiology to study how new neurons regulate behavior. He has published extensively on neurogenesis across the lifespan, including its effects on spatial learning, reward processing, and psychiatric disorders.
Education: PhD in Psychology, University of Toronto, 2005.
Research Interests: Behavioral Neuroscience, Adult Neurogenesis, Hippocampal Circuitry, Stress Biology, and Neuroplasticity. Snyder’s lab investigates how newly generated neurons influence cognition and mood, with recent work highlighting neurogenesis’s role in probabilistic reward learning and future-oriented decision-making.
Awards: Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar Award (2014), Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Award (2013).
Lab and Collaborations: Snyder leads the Snyder Lab at UBC, which develops tools like Pathfinder for spatial navigation analysis. Collaborations include work on transgenic rat models and stress hormone regulation in neurons. His lab actively supervises graduate students and postdocs, with openings starting Fall 2022.
