Raquel Schlichting

Raquel is a rising senior at UCLA majoring in neuroscience. Her research interests lie in mapping human decision-making circuitry and comprehending how it connects to addiction and reward pathways. Currently, she works in the Poe lab, focusing on sleep and memory consolidation. She works with a rat model and studies how oxycodone disrupts sleep and hippocampal spatial learning in the addiction and withdrawal phases. In the future, she would like to pursue a neuroscience PhD focusing on addiction and decision-making. Some of her hobbies include going to concerts and trying new food in LA, weight-lifting, and yoga. She is very excited to be working in the Anderson lab this summer, mapping the hormonal circuitry in female mice in the ventromedial hypothalamus during sexual behavior, and what changes occur throughout the diestrus and proestrus neural states.