Nick G. Hollon, PhD

Nick Hollon, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. His lab investigates neural circuitry and neurochemistry underlying motivated behavior, focusing on basal ganglia circuit interactions using modern approaches for in vivo recordings and manipulations in behaving rodents. He completed his PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Washington and postdoctoral training at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. His lab at UCSD opened in 2022 with support from an NIH-NIMH K99/R00 award and collaborations with ASAP Team Awatramani, and in 2024 he received an R01 from NIH-NINDS. Dr. Hollon co-chaired the 2018 Basal Ganglia Gordon Research Seminar (GRS), presented at the 2026 Basal Ganglia GRC, has served multiple roles at several Catecholamines GRS/GRCs, and organized and chaired a 2025 Winter Brain panel on (para)subthalamic heterogeneity in the regulation of motivated behavior.