Our lab focuses on understanding how the brain alters its structure and function in learning, aging, and psychiatric disorders, across its organizational hierarchy from synapses to functional networks.
Our lab focuses on understanding how the brain alters its structure and function in learning, aging, and psychiatric disorders, across its organizational hierarchy from synapses to functional networks.
We study how chronic stress, a major risk factor for psychiatric disorders including depression and anxiety, disrupts the synaptic circuit and affects animal behavior. We combine advanced in vivo two-photon imaging of structural and functional changes in the mouse brain with genetic, pharmacological, chemogenetic, and behavioral manipulations. We are also interested in the therapeutic potential of novel psychoactive substances in stress-associated psychiatric disorders.
We are always looking for motivated undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postdoctoral researchers, to join our team. If you are passionate about neuroscience and interested in our research, please reach out!
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