Joseph Stujenske
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Bioengineering · UPMC Medical Education
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History
- Present
UPMC Medical Education · University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
2017–2020
Research
Prefrontal entrainment of amygdala activity signals safety in learned fear and innate anxiety
Nature Neuroscience · 2014 · 460 citations
Thalamic projections sustain prefrontal activity during working memory maintenance
Nature Neuroscience · 2017 · 418 citations
Modeling the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Light and Heat Propagation for In Vivo Optogenetics
Cell Reports · 2015 · First of 3 authors · Corresponding · 291 citations
6 papers
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Grants
- 2026–2031
Spatially-Organized Prefrontal Circuits Regulating Fear Expression and Discrimination
National Institute of Mental Health · R01
Contact PI · $705.2K · University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh
- 2021–2025
Encoding of Fear and Safety Discrimination in Prefrontal-Amygdala Projections
National Institute of Mental Health · K08
Contact PI · $767K · University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh
- 2015–2018
The Role of Basolateral Amygdala Interneurons in Fear Suppression
National Institute of Mental Health · F30
Contact PI · $71.4K · Columbia University Health Sciences