Avishek Adhikari

Title(s)	Associate Professor, Psychology
School	College of Letters and Science
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Hippocampal Interneurons Shape Spatial Coding Alterations in Neurological Disorders. Mol Neurobiol. 2025 May 20. Ikebara JM, Jorge RS, Marinho LSR, Higa GSV, Adhikari A, Reis FMCV, Borges FS, Ulrich H, Takada SH, De Pasquale R, Kihara AH. PMID: 40392508.

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Mol Molecular Biology Neu Neurology
Hypothalamic Control of Learned Flight Induced by Threat Imminence. J Neurosci. 2025 May 07; 45(19). Torossian A, Miranda BA, Reis FMCV, Hilgert EL, Gudipati R, Bloom CPV, Wang W, Schuette PJ, Adhikari A. PMID: 40180574; PMCID: PMC12060629.

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Neu Neurology
Translation:Animals Cells
A dual-pathway architecture for stress to disrupt agency and promote habit. Nature. 2025 Apr; 640(8059):722-731. Giovanniello JR, Paredes N, Wiener A, Ramírez-Armenta K, Oragwam C, Uwadia HO, Yu AL, Lim K, Pimenta JS, Vilchez GE, Nnamdi G, Wang A, Sehgal M, Reis FM, Sias AC, Silva AJ, Adhikari A, Malvaez M, Wassum KM. PMID: 39972126; PMCID: PMC12011321.

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Sci Science
Translation:Animals
A dual-pathway architecture enables chronic stress to disrupt agency and promote habit formation. bioRxiv. 2024 Sep 24. Giovanniello JR, Paredes N, Wiener A, Ramírez-Armenta K, Oragwam C, Uwadia HO, Yu AL, Lim K, Pimenta JS, Vilchez GE, Nnamdi G, Wang A, Sehgal M, Reis FM, Sias AC, Silva AJ, Adhikari A, Malvaez M, Wassum KM. PMID: 37873076; PMCID: PMC10592885.

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Control of feeding by a bottom-up midbrain-subthalamic pathway. Nat Commun. 2024 Mar 07; 15(1):2111. 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. PMID: 38454000; PMCID: PMC10920831.

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Bio Biology Sci Science
Translation:Animals
Endocannabinoids modulate fear extinction controlled by a cortical-amygdala projection. Neuron. 2023 10 04; 111(19):2948-2950. Adhikari A. PMID: 37797579.

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Neu Neurology
A pilot study of closed-loop neuromodulation for treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder. Nat Commun. 2023 05 24; 14(1):2997. 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. PMID: 37225710; PMCID: PMC10209131.

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Bio Biology Sci Science
Translation:Humans Animals
Regulation of social interaction in mice by a frontostriatal circuit modulated by established hierarchical relationships. Nat Commun. 2023 04 29; 14(1):2487. 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. PMID: 37120443; PMCID: PMC10148889.

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Bio Biology Sci Science
Translation:Animals
Characterization of ventromedial hypothalamus activity during exposure to innate and conditioned threats. Eur J Neurosci. 2023 04; 57(7):1053-1067. Tobias BC, Schuette PJ, Maesta-Pereira S, Torossian A, Wang W, Sethi E, Adhikari A. PMID: 36788059.

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Orchestration of innate and conditioned defensive actions by the periaqueductal gray. Neuropharmacology. 2023 05 01; 228:109458. Reis FMCV, Mobbs D, Canteras NS, Adhikari A. PMID: 36773777.

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Neu Neurology Pha Pharmacology
Translation:Humans
GABAergic CA1 neurons are more stable following context changes than glutamatergic cells. Sci Rep. 2022 06 20; 12(1):10310. Schuette PJ, Ikebara JM, Maesta-Pereira S, Torossian A, Sethi E, Kihara AH, Kao JC, Reis FMCV, Adhikari A. PMID: 35725588; PMCID: PMC9209472.

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Sci Science
Translation:Animals Cells
Sparse genetically defined neurons refine the canonical role of periaqueductal gray columnar organization. Elife. 2022 06 08; 11. 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. PMID: 35674316; PMCID: PMC9224993.

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Bio Biology
Translation:Animals Cells
Dorsal premammillary projection to periaqueductal gray controls escape vigor from innate and conditioned threats. Elife. 2021 09 01; 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. PMID: 34468312; PMCID: PMC8457830.

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Bio Biology
Translation:Humans Animals
Dorsal periaqueductal gray ensembles represent approach and avoidance states. Elife. 2021 05 06; 10. 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. PMID: 33955356; PMCID: PMC8133778.

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Bio Biology
Translation:Animals
Shared Dorsal Periaqueductal Gray Activation Patterns during Exposure to Innate and Conditioned Threats. J Neurosci. 2021 06 23; 41(25):5399-5420. Reis FMCV, Liu J, Schuette PJ, Lee JY, Maesta-Pereira S, Chakerian M, Wang W, Canteras NS, Kao JC, Adhikari A. PMID: 33883203; PMCID: PMC8221602.

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Neu Neurology
Translation:Animals
Coordination of escape and spatial navigation circuits orchestrates versatile flight from threats. Neuron. 2021 06 02; 109(11):1848-1860.e8. 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. PMID: 33861942; PMCID: PMC8178241.

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Neu Neurology
Translation:Animals
Estrogen-sensitive medial preoptic area neurons coordinate torpor in mice. Nat Commun. 2020 12 11; 11(1):6378. 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. PMID: 33311503; PMCID: PMC7732979.

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Bio Biology Sci Science
Translation:Animals Cells
Long-Term Characterization of Hippocampal Remapping during Contextual Fear Acquisition and Extinction. J Neurosci. 2020 10 21; 40(43):8329-8342. Schuette PJ, Reis FMCV, Maesta-Pereira S, Chakerian M, Torossian A, Blair GJ, Wang W, Blair HT, Fanselow MS, Kao JC, Adhikari A. PMID: 32958567; PMCID: PMC7577601.

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Neu Neurology
Translation:Animals Cells
To Approach or Avoid: An Introductory Overview of the Study of Anxiety Using Rodent Assays. Front Behav Neurosci. 2020; 14:145. La-Vu M, Tobias BC, Schuette PJ, Adhikari A. PMID: 33005134; PMCID: PMC7479238.

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Wiring and Molecular Features of Prefrontal Ensembles Representing Distinct Experiences. Cell. 2016 Jun 16; 165(7):1776-1788. 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. PMID: 27238022; PMCID: PMC5708551.

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Cel Cell Biology
Translation:Animals
Basomedial amygdala mediates top-down control of anxiety and fear. Nature. 2015 Nov 12; 527(7577):179-85. 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. PMID: 26536109; PMCID: PMC4780260.

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Sci Science
Translation:Animals
Natural neural projection dynamics underlying social behavior. Cell. 2014 Jun 19; 157(7):1535-51. Gunaydin LA, Grosenick L, Finkelstein JC, Kauvar IV, Fenno LE, Adhikari A, Lammel S, Mirzabekov JJ, Airan RD, Zalocusky KA, Tye KM, Anikeeva P, Malenka RC, Deisseroth K. PMID: 24949967; PMCID: PMC4123133.

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Cel Cell Biology
Translation:Animals Cells
Distributed circuits underlying anxiety. Front Behav Neurosci. 2014; 8:112. Adhikari A. PMID: 24744710; PMCID: PMC3978252.

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Diverging neural pathways assemble a behavioural state from separable features in anxiety. Nature. 2013 Apr 11; 496(7444):219-23. 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. PMID: 23515158; PMCID: PMC6690364.

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Sci Science
Translation:Animals
A prefrontal cortex-brainstem neuronal projection that controls response to behavioural challenge. Nature. 2012 Dec 20; 492(7429):428-32. Warden MR, Selimbeyoglu A, Mirzabekov JJ, Lo M, Thompson KR, Kim SY, Adhikari A, Tye KM, Frank LM, Deisseroth K. PMID: 23160494; PMCID: PMC5929119.

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Sci Science
Translation:Animals Cells
Dopamine neurons modulate neural encoding and expression of depression-related behaviour. Nature. 2013 Jan 24; 493(7433):537-541. 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. PMID: 23235822; PMCID: PMC4160519.

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Sci Science
Translation:Animals Cells
Single units in the medial prefrontal cortex with anxiety-related firing patterns are preferentially influenced by ventral hippocampal activity. Neuron. 2011 Sep 08; 71(5):898-910. Adhikari A, Topiwala MA, Gordon JA. PMID: 21903082; PMCID: PMC3201792.

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Neu Neurology
Translation:Animals Cells
Disrupted activity in the hippocampal-accumbens circuit of type III neuregulin 1 mutant mice. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2011 Jan; 36(2):488-96. Nason MW, Adhikari A, Bozinoski M, Gordon JA, Role LW. PMID: 20927045; PMCID: PMC3005939.

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Neu Neurology Psy Psychopharmacology
Intracellular Ca2+ regulation during neuronal differentiation of murine embryonal carcinoma and mesenchymal stem cells. Stem Cells Dev. 2010 Mar; 19(3):379-94. Resende RR, da Costa JL, Kihara AH, Adhikari A, Lorençon E. PMID: 19032055.

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Cel Cell Biology Hem Hematology
Translation:Animals Cells
Synchronized activity between the ventral hippocampus and the medial prefrontal cortex during anxiety. Neuron. 2010 Jan 28; 65(2):257-69. Adhikari A, Topiwala MA, Gordon JA. PMID: 20152131; PMCID: PMC2822726.

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Neu Neurology