Mazen Kheirbek, PhD
Primary Department
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Primary Division
Mood, Emotion, and Arousal
Secondary Division
Stress and Resilience
- Postdoc, - , Columbia University
- PhD, - , University of Chicago
- BA, - , Washington University in St. Louis
Olfactory Perception
Corpus Striatum
Myelin Sheath
Neurons
Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells
Conditioning, Classical
Anhedonia
Anxiety Disorders
Association Learning
Dentate Gyrus
Memory Consolidation
Hippocampus
Fear
Neurogenesis
CA1 Region, Hippocampal
- McKnight Foundation Memory & Cognitive Disorders Award, 2020
- Human Frontier Science Program, Young Investigator Grant, 2019
- Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience, 2019
- Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences, 2019
- Rising Star Award, One Mind, 2016
- Weill Scholar Award, 2016
- The Freedman Prize for Exceptional Basic Research, Honorable Mention, NARSAD, 2014
- Mentored Research Scientist Development Award, NIMH, 2012
- NARSAD Young Investigator Award, 2012
- Harry Ginsburg Memorial Prize in Physiology, 2009
February 10, 2018 - Turning off anxiety could be as easy as flicking on a light in your brain
January 31, 2018 - Researchers Discover 'Anxiety Cells' In The Brain
December 4, 2024 - The Surprising Effect of Stress on Your Brain’s Reward System
December 4, 2024 - Stress can dull our capacity for joy: mouse brain patterns hint at why
February 10, 2020 - Long-Term Learning Requires New Nerve Insulation
July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2030 - Network and circuit dynamics supporting dopaminergic control of sudden insight learning , unknown . Sponsor: NIH/NIDA, Sponsor Award ID: 1R01DA062018
July 1, 2025 - March 31, 2030 - Network and circuit dynamics supporting dopaminergic control of sudden insight learning , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01DA062018
March 1, 2025 - February 28, 2030 - Dissecting the circuits and population dynamics that represent unconditioned and conditioned stimuli in the ventral hippocampus , unknown . Sponsor: NIH/NIMH, Sponsor Award ID: 1R01MH136270
August 1, 2021 - July 31, 2026 - Circuit dynamics supporting associative learning in the dentate gyrus , unknown . Sponsor: NIH/NIDCD, Sponsor Award ID: R01DC19813
July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2026 - Cell-type, circuit and network mechanisms of adult oligodendrogenesis in memory storage and retrieval , unknown . Sponsor: NIH/NIMH, Sponsor Award ID: R01 MH125515
April 1, 2016 - February 28, 2026 - Hippocampal modulation of subcortical circuits in the control of emotional behavior , unknown . Sponsor: NIH/NIMH, Sponsor Award ID: R01MH108623
August 3, 2018 - April 30, 2023 - How is anxiety-related information relayed across hippocampal-prefrontal circuits , unknown . Sponsor: NIH/NIMH, Sponsor Award ID: R01MH117961
September 15, 2017 - August 31, 2022 - Circuit and cellular mechanisms of adult neurogenesis in context encoding and discrimination , unknown . Sponsor: NIH/NIMH, Sponsor Award ID: R01MH111754
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