Avishek Adhikari
Academic Appointments
- Postdoctoral Research fellow, Bioengineering
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Professional Overview
Honors and Awards
- Walter V. and Idun Berry postdoctoral fellowship, Walter V. and Idun Berry Foundation (11/2012 - present)
- PhD thesis unanimously approved "with distinction" by thesis committee, Columbia University (2010)
- Kavli graduate student travel award, Kavli Institute (2010)
- 2nd place on the University-wide Annual Neuroscience poster show, Columbia University (2008)
- Antoine Lavoisier award for being the Valedictorian of chemistry majors of the class of 2000, University of Sao Paulo-Dept. of Chemistry (2004)
- Travel award for the Society for Free Radical Research International meeting, Society for Free Radical Research International (2004)
Professional Education
| Bachelor of Science: | University of Sao Paulo, Chemistry (2004) |
| Doctor of Philosophy: | Columbia University (2011) |
Stanford Advisors
| Karl Deisseroth: | Postdoctoral Research Mentor |
Lab Affiliations
- Karl Deisseroth, Deisseroth lab (3/11/2011 )
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
Scientific Focus
Publications
- Single units in the medial prefrontal cortex with anxiety-related firing patterns are preferentially influenced by ventral hippocampal activity. Neuron. 2011; (5): 898-910
- Cross-correlation of instantaneous amplitudes of field potential oscillations: a straightforward method to estimate the directionality and lag between brain areas. J Neurosci Methods. 2010; (2): 191-200
- Synchronized activity between the ventral hippocampus and the medial prefrontal cortex during anxiety. Neuron. 2010; (2): 257-69
- Diverging neural pathways assemble a behavioural state from separable features in anxiety. Nature. 2013; (7444): 219-23
- Dopamine neurons modulate neural encoding and expression of depression-related behaviour. Nature. 2013; (7433): 537-41
- A prefrontal cortex-brainstem neuronal projection that controls response to behavioural challenge. Nature. 2012; (7429): 428-32
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