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Psychiatry Neuroscience Research

In NYU Langone’s Department of Psychiatry, our researchers are investigating the neuroscience behind innate animal behaviors such as mating, fighting, and predator defense. Using mice as an animal model, Dayu Lin, PhD, and her colleagues aim to better understand the neural circuits that control and modulate those behaviors. This research is a first step toward a more comprehensive knowledge of social behaviors in humans.

Learn more about the research in Dr. Lin’s lab. To read more about the interdisciplinary work she participates in, visit the Neuroscience Institute.

Current Grants

Dr. Lin’s lab receives ongoing research support from the Irma T. Hirschl/Monique Weill-Caulier Trust and The G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation, as well as the following institutes.

National Institute of Mental Health

Deconstruction of a Neural Circuit for Aggression; 1R01MH101377

Oxytocin Modulation of Neural Circuit Function and Behavior; U19 209410

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Dissecting the Neural Circuits of Maternal Behaviors; 1R01HD092596-01A1

Investigating the Neural Mechanism of Maternal Motivation; 1R21HD090563-01A1

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Brain Initiative Supplement to Novel Fluorescent Sensors Based on GPCRs for Imaging Neuromodulation; U01NS103558

Research Training

Dr. Lin’s lab offers research training opportunities to postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, visiting students, and undergraduate volunteers.

Research Faculty

Our neuroscience research faculty are experts in the field.

Dayu Lin, PhD
Kenneth D. Carr, PhD
Tanya C. Sippy, MD, PhD

Contact Us

For more information about our neuroscience research in the Department of Psychiatry, please contact Dr. Lin at dayu.lin@nyulangone.org.

Recent Publications

Our psychiatry neuroscience research faculty publish frequently in peer-reviewed journals. Here is a selection of their recent publications.

Cell-type-specific auditory responses in the striatum are shaped by feedforward inhibition

Druart, Mélanie; Kori, Megha; Chaimowitz, Corryn; Fan, Catherine; Sippy, Tanya

Cell reports. 2024 Dec 24; 44:115090

Stress and Parental Behaviors

Wang, Yifan; Lin, Dayu

Neuroscience research. 2024 Dec 12;

Leptin-activated hypothalamic BNC2 neurons acutely suppress food intake

Tan, Han L; Yin, Luping; Tan, Yuqi; Ivanov, Jessica; Plucinska, Kaja; Ilanges, Anoj; Herb, Brian R; Wang, Putianqi; Kosse, Christin; Cohen, Paul; Lin, Dayu; Friedman, Jeffrey M

Nature. 2024 Dec ; 636:198-205

The multi-stage plasticity in the aggression circuit underlying the winner effect

Yan, Rongzhen; Wei, Dongyu; Varshneya, Avni; Shan, Lynn; Dai, Bing; Asencio, Hector J; Gollamudi, Aishwarya; Lin, Dayu

Cell. 2024 Nov 27; 187:6785-6803.e18

Behavioral tests of the insulin-cholinergic-dopamine link in nucleus accumbens and inhibition by high fat-high sugar diet in male and female rats

Weiner, Sydney P; Carr, Kenneth D

Physiology & behavior. 2024 Oct 01; 284:114647

Identifying behavioral links to neural dynamics of multifiber photometry recordings in a mouse social behavior network

Chen, Yibo; Chien, Jonathan; Dai, Bing; Lin, Dayu; Chen, Zhe Sage

Journal of neural engineering. 2024 Jun 25; 21:

Monitoring norepinephrine release in vivo using next-generation GRABNE sensors

Feng, Jiesi; Dong, Hui; Lischinsky, Julieta E; Zhou, Jingheng; Deng, Fei; Zhuang, Chaowei; Miao, Xiaolei; Wang, Huan; Li, Guochuan; Cai, Ruyi; Xie, Hao; Cui, Guohong; Lin, Dayu; Li, Yulong

Neuron. 2024 Jun 19; 112:1930-1942.e6

Sex difference in the effect of environmental enrichment on food restriction-induced persistence of cocaine conditioned place preference and mechanistic underpinnings

Weiner, Sydney P; Vasquez, Carolina; Song, Soomin; Zhao, Kaiyang; Ali, Omar; Rosenkilde, Danielle; Froemke, Robert C; Carr, Kenneth D

Addiction neuroscience. 2024 Mar ; 10: