Alexxai Kravitz is associate professor of psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis, where he leads a team of researchers that focuses on understanding how the brain mediates feeding and obesity in mice. In addition to a passion for understanding feeding, his lab has a strong interest in developing open-source hardware devices to study rodent behavior, and in adopting open-science practices for neuroscience research.
Alexxai Kravitz
Associate professor of psychiatry
Washington University in St. Louis
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