Area of research
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience · Behavioral Neuroscience
Research interest
Research interests include Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Stress Responses and Cortisol, and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling.
Design and validation of novel brain-penetrant HCN channel inhibitors to ameliorate social stress-induced susceptible phenotype
Neural Circuit Connections and Functions of Locus Coeruleus–Norepinephrine System
Stress History Modulates Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Neurons to Establish Resilience
Male and female behavioral variability and morphine response in C57BL/6J, DBA/2J, and their BXD progeny following chronic stress exposure
Male and female variability in response to chronic stress and morphine in C57BL/6J, DBA/2J, and their BXD progeny
C/EBPβ/AEP is age-dependently activated in Parkinson’s disease and mediates α-synuclein in the gut and brain
HCN channel inhibitor induces ketamine-like rapid and sustained antidepressant effects in chronic social defeat stress model
Mesolimbic Neural Response Dynamics Predict Future Individual Alcohol Drinking in Mice
Midbrain projection to the basolateral amygdala encodes anxiety-like but not depression-like behaviors
The Potential of KCNQ Potassium Channel Openers as Novel Antidepressants
Selective activation of ABCA1/ApoA1 signaling in the V1 by magnetoelectric stimulation ameliorates depression via regulation of synaptic plasticity
Stress History Modulates CRF Neurons to Establish Resilience
CRF neurons of the BNST promote resilience by blunting the internal experience of aversion
The Resilient Phenotype Induced by Prophylactic Ketamine Exposure During Adolescence Is Mediated by the Ventral Tegmental Area–Nucleus Accumbens Pathway
A Novel Role for Hypothalamic AgRP Neurons in Mediating Depressive Behavior
Depression and Social Defeat Stress Are Associated with Inhibitory Synaptic Changes in the Nucleus Accumbens
Chronic Pain Impairs Memory Formation via Disruption of Neurogenesis Mediated by Mesohippocampal Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Signaling
Mesocortical BDNF signaling mediates antidepressive-like effects of lithium
Different adaptations of dopamine release in Nucleus Accumbens shell and core of individual alcohol drinking groups of mice
Neurobiology of Resilience: Interface Between Mind and Body
Role of Mesolimbic Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in Depression
The role of the neuropeptide PEN receptor, GPR83, in the reward pathway: Relationship to sex-differences
Molecular, Cellular, and Circuit Basis of Depression Susceptibility and Resilience
A Key Noradrenergic Brainstem-Mesolimbic Circuit: Resilience to Social Stress
Small-Conductance, Calcium-Activated Potassium Channels: A Key Circuit Determinant for Stress-Induced Amygdala Dysfunction
Epigenetic modulation of inflammation and synaptic plasticity promotes resilience against stress in mice
α1- and β3-Adrenergic Receptor–Mediated Mesolimbic Homeostatic Plasticity Confers Resilience to Social Stress in Susceptible Mice
Effects of the KCNQ channel opener ezogabine on functional connectivity of the ventral striatum and clinical symptoms in patients with major depressive disorder
Transcriptional and physiological adaptations in nucleus accumbens somatostatin interneurons that regulate behavioral responses to cocaine
Nicotine and alcohol: the role of midbrain dopaminergic neurons in drug reinforcement