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Kuei Y. Tseng is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with significant contributions to cellular and molecular neuroscience as well as molecular biology and cognitive and behavioral neuroscience.

The main topics in Tseng's research include:

  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • Renin-Angiotensin System Studies

Some of Tseng's recent publications reflect these themes and were published in prominent scientific venues. These include:

  • "Downregulation of parvalbumin expression in the prefrontal cortex during adolescence causes enduring prefrontal disinhibition in adulthood" (2020, Neuropsychopharmacology)
  • "Developmental regulation of excitatory-inhibitory synaptic balance in the prefrontal cortex during adolescence" (2021, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology)
  • "GluN3-Containing NMDA Receptors in the Rat Nucleus Accumbens Core Contribute to Incubation of Cocaine Craving" (2021, Journal of Neuroscience)
  • "MK-801 Exposure during Adolescence Elicits Enduring Disruption of Prefrontal E-I Balance and Its Control of Fear Extinction Behavior" (2020, Journal of Neuroscience)
  • "Maturation of Corticolimbic Functional Connectivity During Sensitive Periods of Brain Development" (2021, Current topics in behavioral neurosciences)

Tseng has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Molecular Neurobiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

The scientist has collaborated with several researchers on multiple occasions. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Adriana Caballero
  • Edén Flores-Barrera
  • Daniel R. Thomases
  • Hanna M. Molla
  • Anabel M. M. Miguelez Fernández

Best Publications

  • FORMATION OF ACCUMBENS GluR2-LACKING AMPA RECEPTORS MEDIATES INCUBATION OF COCAINE CRAVING

    Marina E. Wolf;Michela Marinelli;Kuei Y. Tseng;Kelly L. Conrad

  • Dopamine–Glutamate Interactions Controlling Prefrontal Cortical Pyramidal Cell Excitability Involve Multiple Signaling Mechanisms

    Kuei Y. Tseng;Patricio O'Donnell

  • The neonatal ventral hippocampal lesion as a heuristic neurodevelopmental model of schizophrenia.

    Kuei Y. Tseng;R. Andrew Chambers;Barbara K. Lipska

  • Dopamine Modulation of Prefrontal Cortical Interneurons Changes during Adolescence

    Kuei-Yuan Tseng;Patricio O'Donnell;Patricio O'Donnell

  • Mechanisms contributing to prefrontal cortex maturation during adolescence.

    Adriana Caballero;Rachel Granberg;Kuei Y. Tseng

  • Cortical slow oscillatory activity is reflected in the membrane potential and spike trains of striatal neurons in rats with chronic nigrostriatal lesions.

    Kuei Y. Tseng;Fernando Kasanetz;Lucila Kargieman;Luis A. Riquelme

  • Calcium-permeable AMPA receptors in the VTA and nucleus accumbens after cocaine exposure: When, how, and why?

    Marina E Wolf;Kuei-Yuan Tseng

  • Differential regulation of parvalbumin and calretinin interneurons in the prefrontal cortex during adolescence.

    Adriana Caballero;Eden Flores-Barrera;Daryn K. Cass;Kuei Y. Tseng

  • CB1 cannabinoid receptor stimulation during adolescence impairs the maturation of GABA function in the adult rat prefrontal cortex.

    Daryn K. Cass;Eden Flores-Barrera;Daniel R. Thomases;Webster F. Vital

  • GABAergic Function as a Limiting Factor for Prefrontal Maturation during Adolescence

    Adriana Caballero;Kuei Y. Tseng

  • Calcium-permeable AMPA receptors are present in nucleus accumbens synapses after prolonged withdrawal from cocaine self-administration but not experimenter-administered cocaine.

    James E. McCutcheon;Xiaoting Wang;Kuei Y. Tseng;Marina E. Wolf

  • Differential developmental trajectories for CB1 cannabinoid receptor expression in limbic/associative and sensorimotor cortical areas.

    Lijun Heng;Joel A. Beverley;Heinz Steiner;Kuei Y. Tseng

  • Post-pubertal emergence of prefrontal cortical up states induced by D1-NMDA co-activation.

    Kuei Yuan Tseng;Patricio O'Donnell

  • D2 dopamine receptors recruit a GABA component for their attenuation of excitatory synaptic transmission in the adult rat prefrontal cortex.

    Kuei Y. Tseng;Patricio O'Donnell

  • Synaptic depression via mGluR1 positive allosteric modulation suppresses cue-induced cocaine craving

    Jessica A Loweth;Andrew F Scheyer;Mike Milovanovic;Amber L LaCrosse

  • Glutamatergic dysfunction in schizophrenia: From basic neuroscience to clinical psychopharmacology

    Rodrigo D. Paz;Sonia Tardito;Marco Atzori;Kuei Y. Tseng

  • A Neonatal Ventral Hippocampal Lesion Causes Functional Deficits in Adult Prefrontal Cortical Interneurons

    Kuei Y. Tseng;Barbara L. Lewis;Takanori Hashimoto;Susan R. Sesack

  • Post-Pubertal Disruption of Medial Prefrontal Cortical Dopamine–Glutamate Interactions in a Developmental Animal Model of Schizophrenia

    Kuei-Yuan Tseng;Barbara L. Lewis;Barbara K. Lipska;Patricio O’Donnell;Patricio O’Donnell

  • Excitatory response of prefrontal cortical fast-spiking interneurons to ventral tegmental area stimulation in vivo.

    Kuei Y. Tseng;Nicolas Mallet;Kathy L. Toreson;Catherine Le Moine

  • Adaptations in AMPA receptor transmission in the nucleus accumbens contributing to incubation of cocaine craving

    Jessica A. Loweth;Kuei Y. Tseng;Marina E. Wolf

Frequent Co-Authors

Marina E. Wolf
Marina E. Wolf Oregon Health & Science University
Patricio O'Donnell
Patricio O'Donnell Alto Neuroscience
Michela \Micky\" Marinelli"
Michela \Micky\" Marinelli" The University of Texas at Austin
Heinz Steiner
Heinz Steiner Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Gloria E. Meredith
Gloria E. Meredith Binghamton University
Rita Raisman-Vozari
Rita Raisman-Vozari Université Paris Cité
Marcelo Rubinstein
Marcelo Rubinstein University of Buenos Aires
David K. Grandy
David K. Grandy Oregon Health & Science University
Francisco Ciruela
Francisco Ciruela University of Barcelona

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