Valerie S. Tsai

This study examines thalamoprefrontal circuit signaling in mice and connectivity dynamics in humans during learning, finding conserved mechanisms across species.

The paper identifies two distinct serotonin neuron populations that regulate pup care behavior in female mice, showing how they switch function across reproductive stages.

The paper investigates how hippocampal input to prefrontal VIP interneurons changes with activity and affects spatial working memory task learning in mice.

This study examines how cortical neurons respond to mild TBI, identifying ATF3 as a marker for stress-responsive neurons and showing that layer V neurons die while layer II/III neurons survive.

This paper identifies distinct roles of dopamine D3 and D1 receptors in regulating motivation and reinforcement in the nucleus accumbens, showing compartmentalized signaling within the same cell type.

This paper investigates how the dynorphin/kappa-opioid receptor system modulates excitation-inhibition balance in prefrontal cortical circuits through pathway-specific mechanisms.

The paper introduces an operant social stress procedure to study stress-induced changes in social motivation in male and female mice, finding sex-specific behavioral responses and introducing a social index score to quantify individual differences.

The paper investigates sex differences in reactive and appetitive aggression in mice using behavioral tests, revealing distinct patterns between males and females.