Ho Namkung

This study identifies the role of anterior insular cortex neurons in higher-order threat learning and memory, showing they are essential for temporally separated or diffuse threat contexts but constrain fear expression during retrieval.

The paper shows that NPFF neurons in the caudal brainstem control gastric emptying and intestinal transit by responding to duodenal nutrient sensing.

The paper shows that sham drinking suppresses thirst-promoting neurons and this suppression is learned and persists after drinking stops.

The paper identifies two distinct CGRP neuron populations with different roles in post-ingestive learning, showing one is involved in learning about post-ingestive effects while not affecting food consumption.

The paper investigates how food ingestion is encoded in the caudal nucleus of the solitary tract (cNTS) by comparing neural activity during gastric and oral food delivery in behaving animals.

This study shows that astrocyte redox imbalance causes neuronal hypoactivity and affective behaviors in epilepsy, distinct from seizure mechanisms.

This study identifies the role of CMV viral protein IE1 in disrupting host DISC1-PML interaction, leading to neural progenitor deficits in congenital CMV infection.

This paper introduces ST-Cal-Light, a method to tag active neurons by converting somatic calcium signals into gene expression, enabling precise functional circuit analysis.

This study identifies the miR-124-AMPAR pathway as a common mediator linking polygenic risks to shared behavioral changes in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

This study identifies the nuclear GAPDH cascade in microglia as a mediator of stress-induced cognitive inflexibility and shows that targeting it can normalize cognitive deficits.

This study identifies the role of the anterior insular cortex in associating temporally discontiguous stimuli during threat learning in mice.

This study examines face processing deficits in first episode psychosis patients and links them to reduced resting-state functional connectivity and volume in the right subcallosal anterior cingulate cortex.