Zahra Basseda

Research Assistant
Dept of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Dartmouth College
Moore Hall 6207
Hanover, NH

zahra.basseda [at] dartmouth.edu

+1 (603) 646 9630

Understanding mechanisms of high level visual cognition, and cognitive control. Exploring cognitive and emotional abnormalities in mental disorders.

2010-present Research Assistant Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College.
2006-2010 Research Fellow Iranian Center for Neurological Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences.
2005-2008 Research Fellow Basic Sciences Research Center, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences.

2008 Travel Scholarship from International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy.
2008 European Visual Perception Foundation Travel Award.
2007 European Visual Perception Foundation Travel Award.
2000 Bronze medal in National Chemistry Olympiad.

Basseda Z, Amini H, Sharifi V, Kaviani H, Pooretemad HR, Zadbood A. Emotional intelligence in a group of patients with first-episode psychosis in Iran.Acta Med Iran. 2012 Feb;50(2):133-7.
Esmaeili B, Basseda Z , Gholizadeh S, JavadiPaydar M, Dehpour AR. Tamoxifen disrupts consolidation and retrieval of morphineassociated contextual memory in male mice: interaction with estradiol, Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2009 Jan;204(2):191‐201.
Esmaeili B, Basseda Z, Dehpour AR. Antagonism of muscarinic M1 receptors by dicyclomine inhibits the consolidation of morphine-associated contextual memory. Brain Research Bulletin, 2008 Jul 1; 76(4): 380‐7.
Tahsili-Fahadan P, Yahyavi-Firouz-Abadi N, Orandi AH, Esmaeili B, Basseda Z, Dehpour AR. Rewarding properties of sildenafil citrate in mice: role of the nitric oxidecyclic GMP pathway. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2006 Apr;185(2):201‐7.