Faculty

Joseph Stujenske, MD, PhD

Joseph Stujenske, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Bioengineering

Contact Details

3811 O'Hara St.
Pittsburgh
 
PA
 
15213
Email

Education & Training

MD
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
PhD
Neuroscience, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center

Research Interests

Brain mechanisms underlying safety; Fear & anxiety
Selected Research Publications & Products
  1. Stujenske JM, O'Neill P, Fernandes-Henriques C, Nahmoud I, Goldburg SR, Singh A, Diaz L, Labkovich M, Hardin W, Bolkan SS, Reardon TR, Spellman TJ, Salzman CD, Gordon JA, Liston C, Likhtik E (2022). Prelimbic cortex drives discrimination of non-aversion via amygdala somatostatin interneurons. Neuron 110:2258-2267.e11
  2. Bolkan SS, Stujenske JM, Parnaudeau S, Spellman TJ, Gordon JA, Kellendonk C (2017). Thalamo-prefrontal inhibition disrupts prefrontal delay period activity supporting working memory. Nature Neuroscience 20:987-996. PMCID: PMC5501395
  3. Likhtik E, Stujenske JM, Topiwalla MA, Harris AZ, Gordon JA (2013) Prefrontal inputs to the amygdala signal safety in learned fear and innate anxiety. Nature Neuroscience 17:106-13. PMCID: PMC4035371

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