
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
Cell reports. 2024 Dec 24; 44:115090
Stress and Parental Behaviors
Neuroscience research. 2024 Dec 12;
Leptin-activated hypothalamic BNC2 neurons acutely suppress food intake
Nature. 2024 Dec ; 636:198-205
The multi-stage plasticity in the aggression circuit underlying the winner effect
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
Physiology & behavior. 2024 Oct 01; 284:114647
Identifying behavioral links to neural dynamics of multifiber photometry recordings in a mouse social behavior network
Journal of neural engineering. 2024 Jun 25; 21:
Monitoring norepinephrine release in vivo using next-generation GRABNE sensors
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
Addiction neuroscience. 2024 Mar ; 10: