Sam Golden, PhD
Assistant Professor HSB F521
Director, NAPE Computational Behavior Resource
Director, Biological Structure Light Microscopy Resource
Neural basis of social behavior and neuropsychiatric disorder
Focuses on cellular, circuit, and whole brain mechanisms underlying social motivation, with an emphasis on appetitive aggression and its interaction with neuropsychiatric disorders such as addiction and depression. We use chemogenetics, optogenetics, calcium imaging, whole-mount light-sheet fluorescent microscopy and machine-learning approaches. Please see Select Publications for further information.
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Simple Behavioral Analysis (SimBA) – an open source toolkit for computer classification of complex social behaviors in experimental animals.bioRxiv 2020.04.19.049452; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.19.049452
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Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. 2018 01; 43 1: 224-225
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Biological psychiatry. 2017 08; 82 4: 239-248
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Genes, brain, and behavior. 2017 Jan; 16 1: 44-55
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Nature. 2016 06; 534 7609: 688-92
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Nature neuroscience. 2015 Jul; 18 7: 962-4
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Nature medicine. 2013 Mar; 19 3: 337-44
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Nature protocols. 2011 Jul; 6 8: 1183-91