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December 11, 2020
New paper published!

Our collaboration with UCLA’s Prof. Stephanie Correa has been published in Nature Communications! This work reveals how hypothalamic cells control torpor in mice [pdf]
October 21, 2020
New paper published!

Peter Schuette and Fernando Reis published a new paper in the Journal of Neuroscience. They show, among other findings, that hippocampal place cell size decreases following fear conditioning.

Read it here
August 26, 2020
New paper published!

Mimi La-Vu and Brooke Tobias published a new review on anxiety assays for rodents in Frontiers of Behavioral Neuroscience.

Read it here
April 14, 2020
Avi is quoted in the wellandgood.com website

Read the article here.
April 6, 2020
Review editor offer

Avi accepts position as Review Editor for the journal Frontiers of Neuroscience.
March 2, 2020
Avi talks about the sunk cost fallacy in the History Channel

Watch the video here.
February 27, 2020
Mimi La-Vu wins a F31 NRSA fellowship for 3 years from the National Institute of Mental Health to fund her studies for 3 years!

Congratulations Mimi!
October 17, 2019

Avi is quoted in the Epoch Times news website

Read the article here.
October 4, 2019

Fellowship from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation

Mimi La-Vu wins a fellowship from the ARCS Foundation. Congratulations Mimi!
August 15, 2019

Avi is quoted in the Los Angeles Times newspaper

See the article here.
July 30, 2019

Fine Science Tools Postdoctoral Travel Award

Weisheng Wang wins a travel award for his upcoming presentation at the 2019 Society for Neuroscience Conference. Congratulations Weisheng!
June 24, 2019
UCLA Fellowship

Peter Schuette received a UCLA Affiliates Fellowship to support his research. Congratulations Peter!
June 10, 2019
Hellman Fellowship

Avi Adhikari received a Hellman Fellowship to support research of fear and panic circuits. Thank you Hellman Foundation!
April 8, 2019
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award

Peter Schuette received a NSF GRFP award to fully fund his PhD for 3 years. Congratulations Peter!
March 8, 2019
R01 award

The lab received a R01 award of 1.37 million dollars from the National Institute of Mental Health to study panic-related escape behaviors!
August 5, 2018
NARSAD awards

Weisheng and Fernando win two NARSAD Young Investigator Awards from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation!
July 1, 2018
New graduate students

My Q. La-Vu and Peter Schuette join the lab for their PhD
March 15, 2018
Avi appears in a Clorox commercial playing himself

See the video for the commercial here
September 10, 2017

New Lab member

Dr. Weisheng Wang joins the lab as a postdoctoral scholar.
August 1, 2017
New Lab member

Dr. Fernando Reis joins the lab as a visiting scholar from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
April 1, 2017

R00 award

The lab receives a R00 award from the National Institute of Mental Health to study cortical-amygdala interactions during anxiety and fear
March 17, 2017
New Review Paper Published

Our review on integrating optogenetics with other technologies has been published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
March 1, 2017
First day of the Adhikari lab at UCLA’s Psychology Department!

We are excited to start our lab in the Psychology Department, and look forward to work with our colleagues in UCLA’s neuroscience community.
November 19, 2015
New paper published

Our paper showing that the medial prefrontal cortical projection to the amygdala suppresses fear and anxiety was just published in Nature! [pdf]

See a news report on this study on the Brain and Behavior Foundation website here.