He also holds a secondary appointment in the Center for Bioelectronic Medicine. Dr. Chang received his bachelor’s degree from UCLA where he worked on rodent spatial memory and associative fear learning in the labs of Dr. C.R. Gallistel and Dr. Michael Fanselow. He earned his doctorate from the NYU Center for Neural Science, working in the lab of Dr. Patricio T. Huerta. His doctoral work focused on electrophysiological and microstructural changes in genetically modified (knock-out and knock-in) mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease. This work identified that synaptic scaling of glutamatergic AMPA receptors may be an important contributor to altered cell excitability and synaptic plasticity in neurological disorders.