Shelly B. Flagel is an American behavioral neuroscientist whose research focuses on the underlying brain mechanisms of reward and addiction.
She is an associate professor of psychiatry in the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute at the University of Michigan.
[1][2] Following her postdoctoral research, Flagel started her lab in the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute at the University of Michigan in 2011 and is now an associate professor in the department of psychiatry in the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute at UM.
[3] She investigates the individual differences in addiction and impulse control disorders, reward learning, and motivated behavior neurobiology.
[2] Her work is discussed in the Encyclopedia of Psychopharmacology,[4] The Scientist Magazine,[5] Scientific American,[6] explaining addiction in layman terms,[7] and discussing if there are any inherent factors,[8] and the issues of how the brain operates control (willpower).