Area of research
Social Psychology · Cognitive Neuroscience
Research interest
Research focused on Neuroscience and Dopamine, with related work in Ventral tegmental area, Midbrain, Cell biology. Notable publications include 'Inhibitory Input from the Lateral Hypothalamus to the Ventral Tegmental Area Disinhibits Dopamine Neurons and Promotes Behavioral Activation', 'Dopamine enhances signal-to-noise ratio in cortical-brainstem encoding of aversive stimuli', and 'Acute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses similar to hunger'.
Separable Dorsal Raphe Dopamine Projections Mimic the Facets of a Loneliness-like State
Reward contingency gates selective cholinergic suppression of amygdala neurons
Thalamus sends information about arousal but not valence to the amygdala
Acute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses similar to hunger
Dopamine enhances signal-to-noise ratio in cortical-brainstem encoding of aversive stimuli
Nontoxic, double-deletion-mutant rabies viral vectors for retrograde targeting of projection neurons
A light- and calcium-gated transcription factor for imaging and manipulating activated neurons
Inhibitory Input from the Lateral Hypothalamus to the Ventral Tegmental Area Disinhibits Dopamine Neurons and Promotes Behavioral Activation
Noninvasive optical inhibition with a red-shifted microbial rhodopsin