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Scholarship

Selected Recent Publications

• The Role of Glutamatergic Astrocyte-Neuron Interaction in Adult Anxiety Susceptibility Induced by Adolescent Repeated Alcohol Exposure, 2023
  Abstract
• External globus pallidus input to the dorsal striatum regulates habitual seeking behavior in male mice, 2023
  Journal Article, Academic Journal
• Astrocyte activities in the external globus pallidus regulate action-selection strategies in reward-seeking behaviors, 2023
  Journal Article, Academic Journal
• Activation of Astrocytes in the Paraventricular Nucleus of Thalamus Modulates Social Behaviors, 2022
  Abstract
• Distinct Coordination of Dorsomedial and Dorsolateral Striatum Encoding Social and Exploratory Behaviors, 2021
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Research Interests

Many of the prevalent psychiatric disorders are concomitant with maladaptive reward processing. Thus, this signifies an essential need to clarify how physiological brain activities in context-dependent reward processing transit to pathological conditions for interpreting the data concerning the disease states. My research seeks to characterize the precise tripartite synapses and long-range circuits in the brain that underlie adaptive and maladaptive behaviors driven by positive and negative reinforcement during the transition from flexible reward processing to deficit or inflexible dependency. In addition, based on those findings, my long-term goal is to identify brain-wide signatures to predict the risk of related diseases.