Position:

Adjunct Professor

Contact Information:

lgunaydin@paloaltou.edu

Programs:

Master's

Education:

• MA in Counseling, Palo Alto University
• PhD in Neuroscience, Stanford University

Areas of Interest:

Anxiety, OCD, Trauma, Neuroscience

Selected Publications:

Victor, S.E., Schleider, J.L., Ammerman, B.A., Bradford, D.E., Devendorf, A., Gunaydin, L.A., Hallion, L.S., Kaufman, E.A., Lewis, S.P., Stage, D. (2022). Leveraging the strengths of psychologists with lived experience of mental illness. Perspectives on Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916211072826

Ball, T.M. & Gunaydin, L.A. (2022). Measuring maladaptive avoidance: from animal models to clinical anxiety. Neuropsychopharmacology 47: 978-986. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-021-01263-4

Kajs, B.L., Loewke, A.C., Dorsch, J.M., Vinson, L.T., Gunaydin, L.A. (2022). Divergent encoding of active avoidance in corticostriatal and corticolimbic projections. Scientific Reports 12: 10731. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14930-3

Kajs, B.L., Van Roessel, P.J., Davis, G.L., Williams, L.M., Rodriguez, C.I., Gunaydin, L.A. (2022). Valence processing alterations in SAPAP3 knockout mice and human OCD. Journal of Psychiatric Research 151: 657-666. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.05.024

Davis, G., Minerva, A.R., Lario, A., Simmler, L., Rodriguez, C.I., Gunaydin, L.A. (2021). Ketamine increases activity of a fronto-striatal projection that regulates compulsive behavior. Nature Communications 12(6040). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26247-2

Loewke, A.C., Minerva, A.R., Nelson, A.B., Kreitzer, A.C., Gunaydin, L.A. (2021). Fronto-striatal projection neurons regulate innate avoidance behavior. Journal of Neuroscience 41(25): 5487-5501. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2581-20.2021

Gunaydin, L.A., Kreitzer, A.C. (2016). Cortico-basal ganglia circuit function in psychiatric disease. Annual Review of Physiology 78: 327-50. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-physiol-021115-105355

Adhikari, A., Lerner, T.N., Finkelstein, J., Pak, S., Jennings, J.H., Davidson, T.J., Ferenczi, E., Gunaydin, L.A., Mirzabekov, J.J., Ye, L., Kim, S.Y., Lei, A., Deisseroth, K. (2015). Basomedial amygdala mediates top-down control of anxiety and fear. Nature 527: 179-185. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15698

Gunaydin, L.A., Grosenick, L., Finkelstein, J.C., Kauvar, I., Fenno, L.E., Adhikari, A., Lammel, S., Mirzabekov, J., Airan, R.D., Zalocusky, K.A., Tye, K.M., Anikeeva, P., Malenka, R., Deisseroth, K. (2014). Natural neural projection dynamics underlying social behavior. Cell 157(7): 1535-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2014.05.017

Tye, K.M., Mirzabekov, J.J., Warden, M.R., Ferenczi, E.A., Tsai, H.C., Finkelstein, J., Kim, S.Y., Adhikari, A., Thompson, K.R., Andalman, A.S., Gunaydin, L.A., Witten, I.B., Deisseroth, K. (2012). Dopamine neurons modulate neural encoding and expression of depression-related behavior. Nature 493(7433): 537-41. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11740

Gunaydin, L.A.*, Yizhar, O.*, Berndt, A.*, Sohal, V.S., Deisseroth, K., Hegemann, P. (2010). Ultrafast optogenetic control. Nature Neuroscience 13(3): 387-92. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.2495

Berndt, A.*, Yizhar, O.*, Gunaydin, L.A.*, Hegemann, P., and Deisseroth, K. (2009). Bi-stable neural state switches. Nature Neuroscience 12(2): 229-34. *co-first authors. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.2247

 

 

Websites and Other Relevant Links:

https://www.lisagunaydin.com/