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Zhe Charles Zhou

University of WashingtonORCID 0000-0002-3431-6535Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 5 Organism:mouse· 5 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 4 Assay:imaging· 3 Research Focus:differential expression· 2 Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 1 Assay:electronic health records· 1 Organism:rat· 1

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Hierarchical and Spatial Mapping of Whole-Brain c-Fos Activity Reveals Distinct Opioid and Withdrawal Neuronal Ensembles

Kentaro K. Ishii, Yizhe Y. Zhang, Lynn Y. Ren, Alex De Lecea, Suruchi Bakshi, Ariyanna Haygood, Sakura Chujo, Hannah P. Stevenson, Evan Schwartz, Zhe Charles Zhou, Eric R Szelenyi, Sam A. Golden, Daniel Kessler, Garret D. Stuber

The paper maps whole-brain c-Fos activity to identify distinct neuronal ensembles associated with morphine administration and withdrawal, revealing their spatial and molecular characteristics.

bioRxiv · Sep 21, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience

Post-ejaculatory Inhibition of Female Sexual Drive via Heterogeneous Neuronal Ensembles in the Medial Preoptic Area

Kentaro K. Ishii, Koichi Hashikawa, Jane Chea, Shihan Yin, Rebecca Erin Fox, Suyang Kan, Meha Shah, Zhe Charles Zhou, Jovana S. Navarrete, Alexandria D. Murry, Eric R Szelenyi, Sam A. Golden, Garret D. Stuber

The paper shows that male ejaculation reduces female sexual motivation by activating specific inhibitory neurons in the medial preoptic area of mice.

eLife · Mar 5, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Endogenous opioid dynamics in the dorsal striatum sculpt neural activity to control goal-directed action

Raajaram Gowrishankar, Madelyn M. Hjort, Abigail J. Elerding, Sofia E. Shirley, Josie Van Tilburg, David J. Marcus, Pranav Senthilkumar, Khalid Abrera, Dustin Sumarli, Katherine Motovilov, Valerie Lau, Adam Gordon-Fennell, Zhe Charles Zhou, Chunyang Dong, Lin Tian, , Michael R. Bruchas

This study identifies the role of endogenous dynorphin release in the dorsal striatum in regulating goal-directed behavior through retrograde GPCR inhibition.

bioRxiv · May 20, 2024 · PreprintNeuroscience

Holographic stimulation of opposing amygdala ensembles bidirectionally modulates valence-specific behavior

Sean C. Piantadosi, Zhe Charles Zhou, Carina Pizzano, Christian E. Pedersen, Tammy K. Nguyen, Sarah Thai, Garret D. Stuber, Michael R. Bruchas

This study shows that specific BLA neuronal ensembles control valence-specific behavior, with their activity shifting behavioral responses toward appetitive or aversive actions.

Neuron · Dec 11, 2023Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Medial accumbens shell spiny projection neurons encode relative reward preference

Christian E. Pedersen, Raajaram Gowrishankar, Sean C. Piantadosi, Daniel C. Castro, Madelyn M. Hjort, Zhe Charles Zhou, Shane A. Kan, Patrick J. Murphy, Patrick O’Neill, Michael R. Bruchas

The paper identifies how specific neurons in the medial accumbens shell encode reward preference and show distinct roles in driving reward behavior.

bioRxiv · Sep 18, 2022 · PreprintNeuroscience

Arousal Dependent Modulation Of Thalamo-Cortical Functional Interaction

Iain Stitt, Zhe Charles Zhou, Susanne Radtke‐Schuller, Flavio Frӧhlich

This study examines how pupil-linked arousal modulates thalamo-cortical functional interactions between the posterior parietal cortex and lateral posterior/pulvinar, showing arousal-related changes in oscillatory interaction direction and frequency.

Nature Communications · Jun 19, 2018Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Theta Oscillations Organize Spiking Activity in Higher-Order Visual Thalamus during Sustained Attention

Chunxiu Yu, Iain Stitt, Yuhui Li, Zhe Charles Zhou, Kristin K. Sellers, Flavio Frӧhlich

The paper investigates how theta oscillations in the ferret's higher-order visual thalamus are modulated during sustained attention tasks and finds that attention-modulated neurons show increased spike-field coherence in the theta band.

eNeuro · Jan 1, 2018Peer-reviewedNeuroscience