Nicholas Alonzo Frost

Dr. Nicholas Alonzo Frost is a board-certified neurologist and Assistant Professor in Neurology and Neurobiology with a focus on understanding the mechanisms underlying cognitive and memory disorders. His research explores how complex behaviors, particularly social interactions, are encoded within the prefrontal cortex and how these processes are disrupted in disease.

• University of Maryland School of Medicine - M.D., Ph.D.
• University of California, San Francisco - Residency and Fellowship

His clinical expertise includes Alzheimer's Disease and Cognitive Disorders, with a patient rating of 4.9/5. Dr. Frost employs advanced imaging and transcriptomic techniques to investigate heterogeneous neuronal populations and their role in behavioral information encoding.

• 2024: Thalamocortical organoids for modeling neuropsychiatric disorders
• 2024: Single-nuclei RNA-seq for social interaction analysis
• 2023: Prefrontal cortex socioemotional encoding