Professor
Systems Neurobiology Laboratory
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Wylie Vale Chair
Howe, J.R., Chan, C.L., Lee, D., Blanquart, M., Romero, H.K., Zadina, A.N., Lemieux, M.E., Mills, F., Desplats, P.A., Tye, K.M., Root, C.M. Control of innate olfactory valence by segregated cortical amygdala circuits. (2024) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.26.600895
Tye, K.M., Miller, E.K., Taschbach, F.H., Benna, M.K., Rigotti, M., Fusi, S. Mixed selectivity: Cellular computations for complexity. (2024) Neuron. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2024.04.017
Lin, A., Akafia, C., Dal Monte, O., Fan, S., Fagan, N., Putnam, P., Tye, K.M., Chang, S., Ba, D., Allsop, A.S. An unbiased method to partition diverse neuronal responses into functional ensembles reveals interpretable population dynamics during innate social behavior. (2024) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.08.593229
Tye, K., Patel, R., Patarino, M., Kim, K., Pamintuan, R., Taschbach, F., Li, H., Lee, C., Hoek, A., Castro, R., Cazares, C., Miranda, R., Jia, C., Delahanty, J., Batra, K., Keyes, L., Libster, A., Wichmann, R., Pereira, T., Benna, M. Social isolation recruits amygdala-cortical circuitry to escalate alcohol drinking. [Preprint] (2024) Res Sq. DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4033115/v1
Kimchi, E.Y., Burgos-Robles, A., Matthews, G.A., Chakoma, T., Patarino, M., Weddington, J.C., Siciliano, C., Yang, W., Foutch, S., Simons, R., Fong, M.F., Jing, M., Li, Y., Polley, D.B., Tye, K.M. Reward contingency gates selective cholinergic suppression of amygdala neurons. (2024) Elife. 12. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.89093
LeDuke, D.O., Borio, M., Miranda, R., Tye, K.M. Anxiety and depression: A top-down, bottom-up model of circuit function. (2023) Ann N Y Acad Sci. DOI: 10.1111/nyas.14997
Chen, Z., Zhang, R., Fang, H.S., Zhang, Y.E., Bal, A., Zhou, H., Rock, R.R., Padilla-Coreano, N., Keyes, L.R., Zhu, H., Li, Y.L., Komiyama, T., Tye, K.M., Lu, C. AlphaTracker: a multi-animal tracking and behavioral analysis tool. (2023) Front Behav Neurosci. 17:1111908. DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1111908
Leppla, C.A., Keyes, L.R., Glober, G., Matthews, G.A., Batra, K., Jay, M., Feng, Y., Chen, H.S., Mills, F., Delahanty, J., Olson, J.M., Nieh, E.H., Namburi, P., Wildes, C., Wichmann, R., Beyeler, A., Kimchi, E.Y., Tye, K.M. Thalamus sends information about arousal but not valence to the amygdala. (2022) Psychopharmacology (Berl). DOI: 10.1007/s00213-022-06284-5
Mills, F., Lee, C.R., Howe, J.R., Li, Shao, Keisler, M.N., Lemieux , M.E., Taschbach , F.H., Keyes, L.R., Borio, M., Chen, H.S., Patel, R.R., Gross, A.l., Delahanty , J., Cazares, C., Maree, L., Wichmann , R., Pereira , T.D., Benna, M.K., Root, C.M., Tye, K.M. Amygdalostriatal transition zone neurons encode sustained valence to direct conditioned behaviors (2022) bioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.28.514263
Padilla-Coreano, N., Tye, K.M., Zelikowsky, M. Dynamic influences on the neural encoding of social valence. (2022) Nature Reviews Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1038/s41583-022-00609-1
Li, H., Namburi, P., Olson, J.M., Borio, M., Lemieux, M.E., Beyeler, A., Calhoon, G.G., Hitora-Imamura, N., Coley, A.A., Libster, A., Bal, A., Jin, X., Wang, H., Jia, C., Choudhury, S.R., Shi, X., Felix-Ortiz, A.C., de la Fuente, V., Barth, V.P., King, H.O., Izadmehr, E.M., Revanna, J.S., Batra, K., Fischer, K.B., Keyes, L.R., Padilla-Coreano, N., Siciliano, C.A., McCullough, K.M., Wichmann, R., Ressler, K.J., Fiete, I.R., Zhang, F., Li, Y., Tye, K.M. Neurotensin orchestrates valence assignment in the amygdala. (2022) Nature. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04964-y
Padilla-Coreano, N., Batra, K., Patarino, M., Chen, Z., Rock, R.R., Zhang, R., Hausmann, S.B., Weddington, J.C., Patel, R., Zhang, Y.E., Fang, H.S., Mishra, S., LeDuke, D.O., Revanna, J., Li, H., Borio, M., Pamintuan, R., Bal, A., Keyes, L.R., Libster, A., Wichmann, R., Mills, F., Taschbach, F.H., Matthews, G.A., Curley, J.P., Fiete, I.R., Lu, C., Tye, K.M. Cortical ensembles orchestrate social competition through hypothalamic outputs. [Pubmed] (2022) Nature. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04507-5
Dwortz, M.F., Curley, J.P., Tye, K.M., Padilla-Coreano, N. Neural systems that facilitate the representation of social rank. (2022) Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 377(1845):20200444. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0444
Lee, C.R., Chen, A., Tye, K.M. The neural circuitry of social homeostasis: Consequences of acute versus chronic social isolation. (2021) Cell. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.02.028
Coley, A.A., Padilla-Coreano, N., Patel, R., Tye, K.M. Valence processing in the PFC: Reconciling circuit-level and systems-level views. (2021) Int Rev Neurobiol. 158:171-212. DOI: 10.1016/bs.irn.2020.12.002
Tomova, L., Wang, K.L., Thompson, T., Matthews, G.A., Takahashi, A., Tye, K.M., Saxe, R. Acute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses similar to hunger. (2020) Nature Neuroscience. 23(12):1597-1605. DOI: 10.1038/s41593-020-00742-z
Tsuda, B., Tye, K.M., Siegelmann, H.T., Sejnowski, T.J. A modeling framework for adaptive lifelong learning with transfer and savings through gating in the prefrontal cortex. (2020) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2009591117
Wu, A., Yu, B., Chen, Q., Matthews, G.A., Lu, C., Campbell, E., Tye, K.M., Komiyama, T. Context-dependent plasticity of adult-born neurons regulated by cortical feedback. (2020) Science Advances. 6(42). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc8319
Shemesh, O.A., Linghu, C., Piatkevich, K.D., Goodwin, D., Celiker, O.T., Gritton, H.J., Romano, M.F., Gao, R., Yu, C.J., Tseng, H.A., Bensussen, S., Narayan, S., Yang, C.T., Freifeld, L., Siciliano, C.A., Gupta, I., Wang, J., Pak, N., Yoon, Y.G., Ullmann, J.F.P., Guner-Ataman, B., Noamany, H., Sheinkopf, Z.R., Park, W.M., Asano, S., Keating, A.E., Trimmer, J.S., Reimer, J., Tolias, A.S., Bear, M.F., Tye, K.M., Han, X., Ahrens, M.B., Boyden, E.S. Precision Calcium Imaging of Dense Neural Populations via a Cell-Body-Targeted Calcium Indicator. (2020) Neuron. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.05.029
Tomova, L., Tye, K., Saxe, R. The Neuroscience of Unmet Social Needs. (2019) Social Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2019.1694580
Siciliano, C.A., Noamany, H., Chang, C.J., Brown, A.R., Chen, X., Leible, D., Lee, J.J., Wang, J., Vernon, A.N., Vander Weele, C.M., Kimchi, E.Y., Heiman, M., Tye, K.M. A cortical-brainstem circuit predicts and governs compulsive alcohol drinking. (2019) Science. 366(6468):1008-1012. DOI: 10.1126/science.aay1186
Padilla-Coreano, N., Canetta, S., Mikofsky, R.M., Alway, E., Passecker, J., Myroshnychenko, M.V., Garcia-Garcia, A.L., Warren, R., Teboul, E., Blackman, D.R., Morton, M.P., Hupalo, S., Tye, K.M., Kellendonk, C., Kupferschmidt, D.A., Gordon, J.A. Hippocampal-Prefrontal Theta Transmission Regulates Avoidance Behavior. (2019) Neuron. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.08.006
Mobbs, D., Adolphs, R., Fanselow, M.S., Barrett, L.F., LeDoux, J.E., Ressler, K., Tye, K.M. Viewpoints: Approaches to defining and investigating fear. (2019) Nature Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1038/s41593-019-0456-6
Matthews, G.A., Tye, K.M. Neural mechanisms of social homeostasis. (2019) Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 1457(1):5-25. DOI: 10.1111/nyas.14016
Siciliano, C.A., Tye, K.M. Leveraging calcium imaging to illuminate circuit dysfunction in addiction. (2019) Alcohol. 74:47-63. DOI: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2018.05.013
Weele, C.M.V., Siciliano, C.A., Tye, K.M. Dopamine tunes prefrontal outputs to orchestrate aversive processing. (2018) Brain Research. DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2018.11.044
Vander Weele, C.M., Siciliano, C.A., Matthews, G.A., Namburi, P., Izadmehr, E.M., Espinel, I.C., Nieh, E.H., Schut, E.H.S., Padilla-Coreano, N., Burgos-Robles, A., Chang, C.J., Kimchi, E.Y., Beyeler, A., Wichmann, R., Wildes, C.P., Tye, K.M. Dopamine enhances signal-to-noise ratio in cortical-brainstem encoding of aversive stimuli. (2018) Nature. 563(7731):397-401. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0682-1
Siciliano, C.A., Mills, F., Tye, K.M. Double threat in striatal dopamine signaling. (2018) Nature Neuroscience. 21(10):1296-1297. DOI: 10.1038/s41593-018-0243-9
Tye, K.M. Neural Circuit Motifs in Valence Processing. (2018) Neuron. 100(2):436-452. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.10.001
Allsop, S.A., Wichmann, R., Mills, F., Burgos-Robles, A., Chang, C.J., Felix-Ortiz, A.C., Vienne, A., Beyeler, A., Izadmehr, E.M., Glober, G., Cum, M.I., Stergiadou, J., Anandalingam, K.K., Farris, K., Namburi, P., Leppla, C.A., Weddington, J.C., Nieh, E.H., Smith, A.C., Ba, D., Brown, E.N., Tye, K.M. Corticoamygdala Transfer of Socially Derived Information Gates Observational Learning. (2018) Cell. 173(6):1329-1342.e18. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.04.004
Tye, K.M., Uchida, N. Editorial overview: Neurobiology of behavior. (2018) Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 49:iv-ix. DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2018.02.019
Chatterjee, S., Sullivan, H.A., MacLennan, B.J., Xu, R., Hou, Y., Lavin, T.K., Lea, N.E., Michalski, J.E., Babcock, K.R., Dietrich, S., Matthews, G.A., Beyeler, A., Calhoon, G.G., Glober, G., Whitesell, J.D., Yao, S., Cetin, A., Harris, J.A., Zeng, H., Tye, K.M., Reid, R.C., Wickersham, I.R. Nontoxic, double-deletion-mutant rabies viral vectors for retrograde targeting of projection neurons. (2018) Nature Neuroscience. 21(4):638-646. DOI: 10.1038/s41593-018-0091-7
Beyeler, A., Chang, C.J., Silvestre, M., Lévêque, C., Namburi, P., Wildes, C.P., Tye, K.M. Organization of Valence-Encoding and Projection-Defined Neurons in the Basolateral Amygdala. (2018) Cell Reports. 22(4):905-918. DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.12.097
Wang, W., Wildes, C.P., Pattarabanjird, T., Sanchez, M.I., Glober, G.F., Matthews, G.A., Tye, K.M., Ting, A.Y. A light- and calcium-gated transcription factor for imaging and manipulating activated neurons. (2017) Nature Biotechnology. 35(9):864-871. DOI: 10.1038/nbt.3909
Wei, D., Allsop, S., Tye, K., Piomelli, D. Endocannabinoid Signaling in the Control of Social Behavior. (2017) Trends in Neurosciences. 40(7):385-396. DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2017.04.005
Burgos-Robles, A., Kimchi, E.Y., Izadmehr, E.M., Porzenheim, M.J., Ramos-Guasp, W.A., Nieh, E.H., Felix-Ortiz, A.C., Namburi, P., Leppla, C.A., Presbrey, K.N., Anandalingam, K.K., Pagan-Rivera, P.A., Anahtar, M., Beyeler, A., Tye, K.M. Amygdala inputs to prefrontal cortex guide behavior amid conflicting cues of reward and punishment. (2017) Nature Neuroscience. 20(6):824-835. DOI: 10.1038/nn.4553
Matthews, G.A., Tye, K.M. A New Handle for a Hot Topic: Genetic Markers for Warm-Sensing. (2016) Cell. 167(1):43-44. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.09.016
Nieh, E.H., Vander Weele, C.M., Matthews, G.A., Presbrey, K.N., Wichmann, R., Leppla, C.A., Izadmehr, E.M., Tye, K.M. Inhibitory Input from the Lateral Hypothalamus to the Ventral Tegmental Area Disinhibits Dopamine Neurons and Promotes Behavioral Activation. (2016) Neuron. 90(6):1286-1298. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.04.035
Namburi, P., Al-Hasani, R., Calhoon, G.G., Bruchas, M.R., Tye, K.M. Architectural Representation of Valence in the Limbic System. (2016) Neuropsychopharmacology. 41(7):1697-715. DOI: 10.1038/npp.2015.358
Felix-Ortiz, A.C., Burgos-Robles, A., Bhagat, N.D., Leppla, C.A., Tye, K.M. Bidirectional modulation of anxiety-related and social behaviors by amygdala projections to the medial prefrontal cortex. (2016) Neuroscience. 321:197-209. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.07.041
Beyeler, A., Namburi, P., Glober, G.F., Simonnet, C., Calhoon, G.G., Conyers, G.F., Luck, R., Wildes, C.P., Tye, K.M. Divergent Routing of Positive and Negative Information from the Amygdala during Memory Retrieval. (2016) Neuron. 90(2):348-361. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.03.004
Matthews, G.A., Nieh, E.H., Vander Weele, C.M., Halbert, S.A., Pradhan, R.V., Yosafat, A.S., Glober, G.F., Izadmehr, E.M., Thomas, R.E., Lacy, G.D., Wildes, C.P., Ungless, M.A., Tye, K.M. Dorsal Raphe Dopamine Neurons Represent the Experience of Social Isolation. (2016) Cell. 164(4):617-31. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.12.040
Sidor, M.M., Spencer, S.M., Dzirasa, K., Parekh, P.K., Tye, K.M., Warden, M.R., Arey, R.N., Enwright, J.F., Jacobsen, J.P., Kumar, S., Remillard, E.M., Caron, M.G., Deisseroth, K., McClung, C.A. Daytime spikes in dopaminergic activity drive rapid mood-cycling in mice. (2015) Molecular Psychiatry. 20(11):1406-19. DOI: 10.1038/mp.2014.167
Calhoon, G.G., Tye, K.M. Resolving the neural circuits of anxiety. (2015) Nature Neuroscience. 18(10):1394-404. DOI: 10.1038/nn.4101
Adamantidis, A., Arber, S., Bains, J.S., Bamberg, E., Bonci, A., Buzsáki, G., Cardin, J.A., Costa, R.M., Dan, Y., Goda, Y., Graybiel, A.M., Häusser, M., Hegemann, P., Huguenard, J.R., Insel, T.R., Janak, P.H., Johnston, D., Josselyn, S.A., Koch, C., Kreitzer, A.C., Lüscher, C., Malenka, R.C., Miesenböck, G., Nagel, G., Roska, B., Schnitzer, M.J., Shenoy, K.V., Soltesz, I., Sternson, S.M., Tsien, R.W., Tsien, R.Y., Turrigiano, G.G., Tye, K.M., Wilson, R.I. Optogenetics: 10 years after ChR2 in neurons--views from the community. (2015) Nature Neuroscience. 18(9):1202-12. DOI: 10.1038/nn.4106
Namburi, P., Beyeler, A., Yorozu, S., Calhoon, G.G., Halbert, S.A., Wichmann, R., Holden, S.S., Mertens, K.L., Anahtar, M., Felix-Ortiz, A.C., Wickersham, I.R., Gray, J.M., Tye, K.M. A circuit mechanism for differentiating positive and negative associations. (2015) Nature. 520(7549):675-8. DOI: 10.1038/nature14366
Nieh, E.H., Matthews, G.A., Allsop, S.A., Presbrey, K.N., Leppla, C.A., Wichmann, R., Neve, R., Wildes, C.P., Tye, K.M. Decoding neural circuits that control compulsive sucrose seeking. (2015) Cell. 160(3):528-41. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.01.003
Janak, P.H., Tye, K.M. From circuits to behaviour in the amygdala. (2015) Nature. 517(7534):284-92. DOI: 10.1038/nature14188
Sidor, M.M., Davidson, T.J., Tye, K.M., Warden, M.R., Diesseroth, K., McClung, C.A. In vivo optogenetic stimulation of the rodent central nervous system. (2015) JoVE.(95):51483 DOI: 10.3791/51483
Tye, K.M. Neural circuit reprogramming: a new paradigm for treating neuropsychiatric disease? (2014) Neuron. 83(6):1259-61. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.08.022
Chuong, A.S., Miri, M.L., Busskamp, V., Matthews, G.A., Acker, L.C., Sørensen, A.T., Young, A., Klapoetke, N.C., Henninger, M.A., Kodandaramaiah, S.B., Ogawa, M., Ramanlal, S.B., Bandler, R.C., Allen, B.D., Forest, C.R., Chow, B.Y., Han, X., Lin, Y., Tye, K.M., Roska, B., Cardin, J.A., Boyden, E.S. Noninvasive optical inhibition with a red-shifted microbial rhodopsin. (2014) Nature Neuroscience. 17(8):1123-9. DOI: 10.1038/nn.3752
Allsop, S.A., Vander Weele, C.M., Wichmann, R., Tye, K.M. Optogenetic insights on the relationship between anxiety-related behaviors and social deficits. (2014) Front Behav Neurosci. 8:241. DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00241
Gunaydin, L.A., Grosenick, L., Finkelstein, J.C., Kauvar, I.V., Fenno, L.E., Adhikari, A., Lammel, S., Mirzabekov, J.J., Airan, R.D., Zalocusky, K.A., Tye, K.M., Anikeeva, P., Malenka, R.C., Deisseroth, K. Natural neural projection dynamics underlying social behavior. (2014) Cell. 157(7):1535-51. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.05.017
Beyeler, A., Eckhardt, C.A., Tye, K.M. Deciphering memory function with optogenetics. (2014) Prog Mol Biol Transl Sci. 122:341-90. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-420170-5.00012-X
Haws, M.E., Jaramillo, T.C., Espinosa, F., Widman, A.J., Stuber, G.D., Sparta, D.R., Tye, K.M., Russo, S.J., Parada, L.F., Stavarache, M., Kaplitt, M., Bonci, A., Powell, C.M. PTEN knockdown alters dendritic spine/protrusion morphology, not density. (2014) Journal of Comparative Neurology. 522(5):1171-90. DOI: 10.1002/cne.23488
Lammel, S., Tye, K.M., Warden, M.R. Progress in understanding mood disorders: optogenetic dissection of neural circuits. (2014) Genes, Brain, and Behavior. 13(1):38-51. DOI: 10.1111/gbb.12049
Felix-Ortiz, A.C., Tye, K.M. Amygdala inputs to the ventral hippocampus bidirectionally modulate social behavior. (2014) Journal of Neuroscience. 34(2):586-95. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4257-13.2014
Felix-Ortiz, A.C., Beyeler, A., Seo, C., Leppla, C.A., Wildes, C.P., Tye, K.M. BLA to vHPC inputs modulate anxiety-related behaviors. (2013) Neuron. 79(4):658-64. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.06.016
Nieh, E.H., Kim, S.Y., Namburi, P., Tye, K.M. Optogenetic dissection of neural circuits underlying emotional valence and motivated behaviors. (2013) Brain Research. 1511:73-92. DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.11.001
Kim, S.Y., Adhikari, A., Lee, S.Y., Marshel, J.H., Kim, C.K., Mallory, C.S., Lo, M., Pak, S., Mattis, J., Lim, B.K., Malenka, R.C., Warden, M.R., Neve, R., Tye, K.M., Deisseroth, K. Diverging neural pathways assemble a behavioural state from separable features in anxiety. (2013) Nature. 496(7444):219-23. DOI: 10.1038/nature12018
Tye, K.M., Mirzabekov, J.J., Warden, M.R., Ferenczi, E.A., Tsai, H.C., Finkelstein, J., Kim, S.Y., Adhikari, A., Thompson, K.R., Andalman, A.S., Gunaydin, L.A., Witten, I.B., Deisseroth, K. Dopamine neurons modulate neural encoding and expression of depression-related behaviour. (2013) Nature. 493(7433):537-541. DOI: 10.1038/nature11740
Warden, M.R., Selimbeyoglu, A., Mirzabekov, J.J., Lo, M., Thompson, K.R., Kim, S.Y., Adhikari, A., Tye, K.M., Frank, L.M., Deisseroth, K. A prefrontal cortex-brainstem neuronal projection that controls response to behavioural challenge. (2012) Nature. 492(7429):428-32. DOI: 10.1038/nature11617
Tye, K.M. Glutamate inputs to the nucleus accumbens: does source matter? (2012) Neuron. 76(4):671-3. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.11.008
Lammel, S., Lim, B.K., Ran, C., Huang, K.W., Betley, M.J., Tye, K.M., Deisseroth, K., Malenka, R.C. Input-specific control of reward and aversion in the ventral tegmental area. (2012) Nature. 491(7423):212-7. DOI: 10.1038/nature11527
Tye, K.M., Deisseroth, K. Optogenetic investigation of neural circuits underlying brain disease in animal models. (2012) Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 13(4):251-66. DOI: 10.1038/nrn3171
Tan, K.R., Yvon, C., Turiault, M., Mirzabekov, J.J., Doehner, J., Labouèbe, G., Deisseroth, K., Tye, K.M., Lüscher, C. GABA neurons of the VTA drive conditioned place aversion. (2012) Neuron. 73(6):1173-83. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.02.015
Mattis, J., Tye, K.M., Ferenczi, E.A., Ramakrishnan, C., O'Shea, D.J., Prakash, R., Gunaydin, L.A., Hyun, M., Fenno, L.E., Gradinaru, V., Yizhar, O., Deisseroth, K. Principles for applying optogenetic tools derived from direct comparative analysis of microbial opsins. (2011) Nature Methods. 9(2):159-72. DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1808
Witten, I.B., Steinberg, E.E., Lee, S.Y., Davidson, T.J., Zalocusky, K.A., Brodsky, M., Yizhar, O., Cho, S.L., Gong, S., Ramakrishnan, C., Stuber, G.D., Tye, K.M., Janak, P.H., Deisseroth, K. Recombinase-driver rat lines: tools, techniques, and optogenetic application to dopamine-mediated reinforcement. (2011) Neuron. 72(5):721-33. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.10.028
Stuber, G.D., Sparta, D.R., Stamatakis, A.M., van Leeuwen, W.A., Hardjoprajitno, J.E., Cho, S., Tye, K.M., Kempadoo, K.A., Zhang, F., Deisseroth, K., Bonci, A. Excitatory transmission from the amygdala to nucleus accumbens facilitates reward seeking. (2011) Nature. 475(7356):377-80. DOI: 10.1038/nature10194
Berndt, A., Schoenenberger, P., Mattis, J., Tye, K.M., Deisseroth, K., Hegemann, P., Oertner, T.G. High-efficiency channelrhodopsins for fast neuronal stimulation at low light levels. (2011) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108(18):7595-600. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1017210108
Tye, K.M., Prakash, R., Kim, S.Y., Fenno, L.E., Grosenick, L., Zarabi, H., Thompson, K.R., Gradinaru, V., Ramakrishnan, C., Deisseroth, K. Amygdala circuitry mediating reversible and bidirectional control of anxiety. (2011) Nature. 471(7338):358-62. DOI: 10.1038/nature09820
Tye, K.M., Tye, L.D., Cone, J.J., Hekkelman, E.F., Janak, P.H., Bonci, A. Methylphenidate facilitates learning-induced amygdala plasticity. (2010) Nature Neuroscience. 13(4):475-81. DOI: 10.1038/nn.2506
Hopf, F.W., Bowers, M.S., Chang, S.J., Chen, B.T., Martin, M., Seif, T., Cho, S.L., Tye, K., Bonci, A. Reduced nucleus accumbens SK channel activity enhances alcohol seeking during abstinence. (2010) Neuron. 65(5):682-94. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.02.015
Stuber, G.D., Hopf, F.W., Tye, K.M., Chen, B.T., Bonci, A. Neuroplastic alterations in the limbic system following cocaine or alcohol exposure. (2010) Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences. 3:3-27. DOI: 10.1007/7854_2009_23
Tye, K.M., Cone, J.J., Schairer, W.W., Janak, P.H. Amygdala neural encoding of the absence of reward during extinction. (2010) Journal of Neuroscience. 30(1):116-25. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4240-09.2010
Tye, K.M., Stuber, G.D., de Ridder, B., Bonci, A., Janak, P.H. Rapid strengthening of thalamo-amygdala synapses mediates cue-reward learning. (2008) Nature. 453(7199):1253-7. DOI: 10.1038/nature06963
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BS, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Minor in Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD, Neuroscience, University of California at San Francisco