Avishek Adhikari

Associate Professor, Psychology, University of California Los Angeles

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Publications

  1. Reis FMCV, Maesta-Pereira S, Ollivier M, Schuette PJ, Sethi E, Miranda BA, Iniguez E, Chakerian M, Vaughn E, Sehgal M, Nguyen DCT, Yuan FTH, Torossian A, Ikebara JM, Kihara AH, Silva AJ, Kao JC, Khakh BS, Adhikari A. Control of feeding by a bottom-up midbrain-subthalamic pathway.. Nature communications, 2024.
  2. Adhikari A. Endocannabinoids modulate fear extinction controlled by a cortical-amygdala projection.. Neuron, 2023.
  3. Giovanniello JR, Paredes N, Wiener A, Ramírez-Armenta K, Oragwam C, Uwadia HO, Lim K, Nnamdi G, Wang A, Sehgal M, Reis FM, Sias AC, Silva AJ, Adhikari A, Malvaez M, Wassum KM. A dual-pathway architecture enables chronic stress to promote habit formation.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2023.
  4. Gill JL, Schneiders JA, Stangl M, Aghajan ZM, Vallejo M, Hiller S, Topalovic U, Inman CS, Villaroman D, Bari A, Adhikari A, Rao VR, Fanselow MS, Craske MG, Krahl SE, Chen JWY, Vick M, Hasulak NR, Kao JC, Koek RJ, Suthana N, Langevin JP. A pilot study of closed-loop neuromodulation for treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder.. Nature communications, 2023.
  5. Fetcho RN, Hall BS, Estrin DJ, Walsh AP, Schuette PJ, Kaminsky J, Singh A, Roshgodal J, Bavley CC, Nadkarni V, Antigua S, Huynh TN, Grosenick L, Carthy C, Komer L, Adhikari A, Lee FS, Rajadhyaksha AM, Liston C. Regulation of social interaction in mice by a frontostriatal circuit modulated by established hierarchical relationships.. Nature communications, 2023.
  6. Tobias BC, Schuette PJ, Maesta-Pereira S, Torossian A, Wang W, Sethi E, Adhikari A. Characterization of ventromedial hypothalamus activity during exposure to innate and conditioned threats.. The European journal of neuroscience, 2023.
  7. Reis FMCV, Mobbs D, Canteras NS, Adhikari A. Orchestration of innate and conditioned defensive actions by the periaqueductal gray.. Neuropharmacology, 2023.
  8. Schuette PJ, Ikebara JM, Maesta-Pereira S, Torossian A, Sethi E, Kihara AH, Kao JC, Reis FMCV, Adhikari A. GABAergic CA1 neurons are more stable following context changes than glutamatergic cells.. Scientific reports, 2022.
  9. La-Vu MQ, Sethi E, Maesta-Pereira S, Schuette PJ, Tobias BC, Reis FMCV, Wang W, Torossian A, Bishop A, Leonard SJ, Lin L, Cahill CM, Adhikari A. Sparse genetically defined neurons refine the canonical role of periaqueductal gray columnar organization.. eLife, 2022.
  10. Wang W, Schuette PJ, La-Vu MQ, Torossian A, Tobias BC, Ceko M, Kragel PA, Reis FM, Ji S, Sehgal M, Maesta-Pereira S, Chakerian M, Silva AJ, Canteras NS, Wager T, Kao JC, Adhikari A. Dorsal premammillary projection to periaqueductal gray controls escape vigor from innate and conditioned threats.. eLife, 2021.
  11. Reis FM, Lee JY, Maesta-Pereira S, Schuette PJ, Chakerian M, Liu J, La-Vu MQ, Tobias BC, Ikebara JM, Kihara AH, Canteras NS, Kao JC, Adhikari A. Dorsal periaqueductal gray ensembles represent approach and avoidance states.. eLife, 2021.
  12. Reis FMCV, Liu J, Schuette PJ, Lee JY, Maesta-Pereira S, Chakerian M, Wang W, Canteras NS, Kao JC, Adhikari A. Shared Dorsal Periaqueductal Gray Activation Patterns during Exposure to Innate and Conditioned Threats.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2021.
  13. Wang W, Schuette PJ, Nagai J, Tobias BC, Cuccovia V Reis FM, Ji S, de Lima MAX, La-Vu MQ, Maesta-Pereira S, Chakerian M, Leonard SJ, Lin L, Severino AL, Cahill CM, Canteras NS, Khakh BS, Kao JC, Adhikari A. Coordination of escape and spatial navigation circuits orchestrates versatile flight from threats.. Neuron, 2021.
  14. Zhang Z, Reis FMCV, He Y, Park JW, DiVittorio JR, Sivakumar N, van Veen JE, Maesta-Pereira S, Shum M, Nichols I, Massa MG, Anderson S, Paul K, Liesa M, Ajijola OA, Xu Y, Adhikari A, Correa SM. Estrogen-sensitive medial preoptic area neurons coordinate torpor in mice.. Nature communications, 2020.
  15. Schuette PJ, Reis FMCV, Maesta-Pereira S, Chakerian M, Torossian A, Blair GJ, Wang W, Blair HT, Fanselow MS, Kao JC, Adhikari A. Long-Term Characterization of Hippocampal Remapping during Contextual Fear Acquisition and Extinction.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2020.
  16. La-Vu M, Tobias BC, Schuette PJ, Adhikari A. To Approach or Avoid: An Introductory Overview of the Study of Anxiety Using Rodent Assays.. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2020.
  17. Ye L, Allen WE, Thompson KR, Tian Q, Hsueh B, Ramakrishnan C, Wang AC, Jennings JH, Adhikari A, Halpern CH, Witten IB, Barth AL, Luo L, McNab JA, Deisseroth K. Wiring and Molecular Features of Prefrontal Ensembles Representing Distinct Experiences.. Cell, 2016.
  18. Adhikari A, Lerner TN, Finkelstein J, Pak S, Jennings JH, Davidson TJ, Ferenczi E, Gunaydin LA, Mirzabekov JJ, Ye L, Kim SY, Lei A, Deisseroth K. Basomedial amygdala mediates top-down control of anxiety and fear.. Nature, 2015.
  19. Adhikari A. Distributed circuits underlying anxiety.. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2014.
  20. Kim SY, Adhikari A, Lee SY, Marshel JH, Kim CK, Mallory CS, Lo M, Pak S, Mattis J, Lim BK, Malenka RC, Warden MR, Neve R, Tye KM, Deisseroth K. Diverging neural pathways assemble a behavioural state from separable features in anxiety.. Nature, 2013.
  21. Warden MR, Selimbeyoglu A, Mirzabekov JJ, Lo M, Thompson KR, Kim SY, Adhikari A, Tye KM, Frank LM, Deisseroth K. A prefrontal cortex-brainstem neuronal projection that controls response to behavioural challenge.. Nature, 2012.
  22. Tye KM, Mirzabekov JJ, Warden MR, Ferenczi EA, Tsai HC, Finkelstein J, Kim SY, Adhikari A, Thompson KR, Andalman AS, Gunaydin LA, Witten IB, Deisseroth K. Dopamine neurons modulate neural encoding and expression of depression-related behaviour.. Nature, 2012.
  23. Adhikari A, Topiwala MA, Gordon JA. Single units in the medial prefrontal cortex with anxiety-related firing patterns are preferentially influenced by ventral hippocampal activity.. Neuron, 2011.
  24. Nason MW, Adhikari A, Bozinoski M, Gordon JA, Role LW. Disrupted activity in the hippocampal-accumbens circuit of type III neuregulin 1 mutant mice.. Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2010.
  25. Resende RR, da Costa JL, Kihara AH, Adhikari A, Lorençon E. Intracellular Ca2+ regulation during neuronal differentiation of murine embryonal carcinoma and mesenchymal stem cells.. Stem cells and development, 2010.
  26. Adhikari A, Topiwala MA, Gordon JA. Synchronized activity between the ventral hippocampus and the medial prefrontal cortex during anxiety.. Neuron, 2010.