Faculty

Image: Dystrophic Corticospinal Rat Neurons Following Spinal Cord Injury – Blue- Nathaniel Peters

Sam Golden, PhD

Assistant Professor
HSB F521

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 chemogeneticsoptogeneticscalcium imagingwhole-mount light-sheet fluorescent microscopy and machine-learning approaches. Please see Select Publications for further information.

Selected Publications: