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Overview

Byung Kook Lim is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with significant contributions in the fields of cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, molecular biology, and biophysics.

Their recent publications include several papers in high-impact journals, such as:

  • A multimodal cell census and atlas of the mammalian primary motor cortex (2021, Nature)
  • The mouse cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic network (2021, Nature)
  • Cellular anatomy of the mouse primary motor cortex (2021, Nature)
  • Specific populations of basal ganglia output neurons target distinct brain stem areas while collateralizing throughout the diencephalon (2021, Neuron)
  • Pain modulates dopamine neurons via a spinal-parabrachial-mesencephalic circuit (2021, Nature Neuroscience)

Their coauthors frequently include:

  • Jun-Hyeok Choi
  • Takaki Komiyama
  • Hong-Wei Dong
  • X. William Yang
  • Brian Zingg

Byung Kook Lim's publications have appeared repeatedly in several prominent scientific venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Nature
  • Neuron
  • Science

The main research areas covered in Byung Kook Lim's work encompass various neuroscience topics, with an emphasis on:

  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering

The subfields of their studies include:

  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neurology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Biophysics

Best Publications

  • Input-specific control of reward and aversion in the ventral tegmental area

    Stephan Lammel;Byung Kook Lim;Chen Ran;Kee Wui Huang

  • Reward and aversion in a heterogeneous midbrain dopamine system.

    Stephan Lammel;Byung Kook Lim;Robert C. Malenka

  • Diverging neural pathways assemble a behavioural state from separable features in anxiety

    Sung-Yon Kim;Avishek Adhikari;Soo Yeun Lee;James H. Marshel

  • Autism-associated neuroligin-3 mutations commonly impair striatal circuits to boost repetitive behaviors.

    Patrick E. Rothwell;Marc V. Fuccillo;Stephan Maxeiner;Scott J. Hayton

  • Anhedonia requires MC4R-mediated synaptic adaptations in nucleus accumbens

    Byung Kook Lim;Kee Wui Huang;Brad A. Grueter;Patrick E. Rothwell

  • Decreased motivation during chronic pain requires long-term depression in the nucleus accumbens

    Neil Schwartz;Paul Temkin;Sandra Jurado;Sandra Jurado;Byung Kook Lim;Byung Kook Lim

  • The mouse cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic network.

    Nicholas N. Foster;Nicholas N. Foster;Joshua Barry;Laura Korobkova;Luis Garcia;Luis Garcia

  • Distinct Ventral Pallidal Neural Populations Mediate Separate Symptoms of Depression

    Daniel Knowland;Varoth Lilascharoen;Christopher Pham Pacia;Sora Shin

  • Local and Long-Range Reciprocal Regulation of cAMP and cGMP in Axon/Dendrite Formation

    Maya Shelly;Byung Kook Lim;Laura Cancedda;Laura Cancedda;Sarah C. Heilshorn

  • Cellular anatomy of the mouse primary motor cortex

    Rodrigo Muñoz-Castañeda;Brian Zingg;Brian Zingg;Katherine S. Matho;Xiaoyin Chen;Xiaoyin Chen

  • Semaphorin3A regulates neuronal polarization by suppressing axon formation and promoting dendrite growth.

    Maya Shelly;Laura Cancedda;Byung Kook Lim;Andrei T. Popescu

  • Chronic Stress Induces Activity, Synaptic, and Transcriptional Remodeling of the Lateral Habenula Associated with Deficits in Motivated Behaviors.

    Ignas Cerniauskas;Jochen Winterer;Johannes W. de Jong;David Lukacsovich

  • Enhanced AMPA Receptor Trafficking Mediates the Anorexigenic Effect of Endogenous Glucagon-like Peptide-1 in the Paraventricular Hypothalamus

    Ji Liu;Kristie Conde;Peng Zhang;Varoth Lilascharoen

  • The Claustrum Supports Resilience to Distraction.

    Gal Atlan;Anna Terem;Noa Peretz-Rivlin;Kamini Sehrawat

  • Elevated BDNF after Cocaine Withdrawal Facilitates LTP in Medial Prefrontal Cortex by Suppressing GABA Inhibition

    Hui Lu;Pei-lin Cheng;Byung Kook Lim;Nina Khoshnevisrad

  • Input- and Output-Specific Regulation of Serial Order Performance by Corticostriatal Circuits.

    Patrick E. Rothwell;Scott J. Hayton;Gordon L. Sun;Marc V. Fuccillo

  • Specific populations of basal ganglia output neurons target distinct brain stem areas while collateralizing throughout the diencephalon

    Lauren E. McElvain;Yuncong Chen;Jeffrey D. Moore;G. Stefano Brigidi

  • Ephrin-B reverse signaling promotes structural and functional synaptic maturation in vivo.

    Byung Kook Lim;Naoto Matsuda;Mu-ming Poo

  • Learning binds new inputs into functional synaptic clusters via spinogenesis

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  • Drd3 Signaling in the Lateral Septum Mediates Early Life Stress-Induced Social Dysfunction

    Sora Shin;Horia Pribiag;Varoth Lilascharoen;Daniel Knowland

  • Cellular Anatomy of the Mouse Primary Motor Cortex

    Rodrigo Muñoz-Castañeda;Brian Zingg;Katherine S. Matho;Quanxin Wang

  • The mouse cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic network

    Nicholas N. Foster;Nicholas N. Foster;Laura Korobkova;Luis Garcia;Luis Garcia;Lei Gao;Lei Gao

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert C. Malenka
Robert C. Malenka Stanford University
Hong-Wei Dong
Hong-Wei Dong University of Southern California
Mu-ming Poo
Mu-ming Poo Chinese Academy of Sciences
C. Savio Chan
C. Savio Chan Northwestern University
Z. Josh Huang
Z. Josh Huang Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Giorgio A. Ascoli
Giorgio A. Ascoli George Mason University
Kay M. Tye
Kay M. Tye Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Lydia Ng
Lydia Ng Allen Institute for Brain Science
Michael Hawrylycz
Michael Hawrylycz Allen Institute for Brain Science
Tao Jiang
Tao Jiang Huazhong University of Science and Technology

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