Headshot of Alexxai Kravitz.

Alexxai Kravitz

Associate professor of psychiatry
Washington University in St. Louis

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.

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