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1989

Overview

Thomas L. Kash is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Neuroscience, with a particular focus on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Behavioral Neuroscience, and Physiology.

Their work covers a variety of topics related to brain function and behavior, including:

  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism

Kash's recent publications demonstrate a diverse engagement with neuroscience topics. Selected papers include:

  • "Directed Evolution of a Selective and Sensitive Serotonin Sensor via Machine Learning," 2020, Cell
  • "Periaqueductal gray/dorsal raphe dopamine neurons contribute to sex differences in pain-related behaviors," 2021, Neuron
  • "The paraventricular thalamus provides a polysynaptic brake on limbic CRF neurons to sex-dependently blunt binge alcohol drinking and avoidance behavior in mice," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Kappa opioid receptor and dynorphin signaling in the central amygdala regulates alcohol intake," 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Coordination of social behaviors by the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis," 2020, European Journal of Neuroscience

Their frequent coauthors include Dipanwita Pati, Kristen M. Boyt, Harold L. Haun, Meghan E. Flanigan, and Kristen E. Pleil. This indicates ongoing collaboration with several researchers in related areas of neuroscience.

Kash regularly publishes in a number of venues, primarily:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alcohol
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • eLife

Best Publications

  • Distinct extended amygdala circuits for divergent motivational states

    Joshua H. Jennings;Dennis R. Sparta;Alice M. Stamatakis;Randall L. Ung

  • Serotonin engages an anxiety and fear-promoting circuit in the extended amygdala

    Catherine A. Marcinkiewcz;Christopher M. Mazzone;Giuseppe D’Agostino;Lindsay R. Halladay

  • A New DREADD Facilitates the Multiplexed Chemogenetic Interrogation of Behavior

    Eyal Vardy;J. Elliott Robinson;Chia Li;Chia Li;Reid H.J. Olsen

  • Coupling of agonist binding to channel gating in the GABA A receptor

    Thomas L. Kash;Andrew Jenkins;Jill C. Kelley;James R. Trudell

  • Distinct Subpopulations of Nucleus Accumbens Dynorphin Neurons Drive Aversion and Reward

    Ream Al-Hasani;Jordan G. McCall;Gunchul Shin;Adrian M. Gomez

  • Strain differences in stress responsivity are associated with divergent amygdala gene expression and glutamate-mediated neuronal excitability

    Khyobeni Mozhui;Rose Marie Karlsson;Thomas L. Kash;Jessica Ihne

  • Fear extinction requires infralimbic cortex projections to the basolateral amygdala.

    Daniel W Bloodgood;Jonathan A Sugam;Andrew Holmes;Thomas L Kash

  • Chronic alcohol remodels prefrontal neurons and disrupts NMDAR-mediated fear extinction encoding

    Andrew Holmes;Paul J Fitzgerald;Kathryn P MacPherson;Lauren DeBrouse

  • NPY signaling inhibits extended amygdala CRF neurons to suppress binge alcohol drinking

    Kristen E. Pleil;Jennifer A. Rinker;Emily G. Lowery-Gionta;Christopher M. Mazzone

  • Neuropeptide Y and corticotropin-releasing factor bi-directionally modulate inhibitory synaptic transmission in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.

    Thomas L. Kash;Danny G. Winder

  • DREADD Agonist 21 Is an Effective Agonist for Muscarinic-Based DREADDs in Vitro and in Vivo

    Karen J Thompson;Elham Khajehali;Sophie J Bradley;Jovana S Navarrete;Jovana S Navarrete

  • Elucidation of The Behavioral Program and Neuronal Network Encoded by Dorsal Raphe Serotonergic Neurons.

    Daniel J Urban;Hu Zhu;Catherine A Marcinkiewcz;Michael Michaelides

  • Directed Evolution of a Selective and Sensitive Serotonin Sensor via Machine Learning.

    Elizabeth K. Unger;Jacob P. Keller;Michael Altermatt;Ruqiang Liang

  • Effects of chronic ethanol exposure on neuronal function in the prefrontal cortex and extended amygdala

    Kristen E. Pleil;Emily G. Lowery-Gionta;Nicole A. Crowley;Chia Li

  • Chemogenetic inactivation of ventral hippocampal glutamatergic neurons disrupts consolidation of contextual fear memory

    Hu Zhu;Kristen E Pleil;Daniel J Urban;Sheryl S Moy

  • Mu Opioid Receptor Modulation of Dopamine Neurons in the Periaqueductal Gray/Dorsal Raphe: A Role in Regulation of Pain.

    Chia Li;Jonathan A Sugam;Emily G Lowery-Gionta;Zoe A McElligott

  • Corticotropin Releasing Factor Signaling in the Central Amygdala is Recruited during Binge-Like Ethanol Consumption in C57BL/6J Mice

    Emily G. Lowery-Gionta;Montserrat Navarro;Chia Li;Kristen E. Pleil

  • Dynorphin Controls the Gain of an Amygdalar Anxiety Circuit

    Nicole A. Crowley;Daniel W. Bloodgood;J. Andrew Hardaway;Alexis M. Kendra

  • Presynaptic inhibition of gamma-aminobutyric acid release in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis by kappa opioid receptor signaling.

    Chia Li;Kristen E. Pleil;Alice M. Stamatakis;Steven Busan

  • Extended Amygdala to Ventral Tegmental Area Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Circuit Controls Binge Ethanol Intake.

    Jennifer A. Rinker;S. Alex Marshall;Christopher M. Mazzone;Emily G. Lowery-Gionta

  • Norepinephrine modulates glutamatergic transmission in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.

    Regula E Egli;Thomas L Kash;Kevin Choo;Valentina Savchenko

  • Alcohol exposure alters NMDAR function in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.

    Thomas L. Kash;Thomas L. Kash;Anthony J. Baucum;Kelly L. Conrad;Roger J. Colbran

Frequent Co-Authors

Danny G. Winder
Danny G. Winder Vanderbilt University
Todd E. Thiele
Todd E. Thiele University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Neil L. Harrison
Neil L. Harrison Columbia University
Michael J. Krashes
Michael J. Krashes National Institutes of Health
Garret D. Stuber
Garret D. Stuber University of Washington
Michael R. Bruchas
Michael R. Bruchas University of Washington
Cynthia M. Bulik
Cynthia M. Bulik University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bradford B. Lowell
Bradford B. Lowell Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Teresa A. Milner
Teresa A. Milner Cornell University
Masayoshi Mishina
Masayoshi Mishina Ritsumeikan University

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