Peter Tsai, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor

School: Medical School
Department: Neurology | Neuroscience | Pediatrics | Psychiatry
Graduate Programs: Neuroscience

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Education

Medical School: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (2005)
Residency: Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital (2007), Pediatrics
Residency: Children's Hospital - Boston (2010), Pediatric Neurology
Fellowship: Children's Hospital - Boston (2011), Behavioral Neurology

Research Interest

Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Cerebellar contribution to cognition and behavior
Neuronal circuits underlying behavioral disorders

Publications

Neuronal cell type specific roles for Nprl2 in neurodevelopmental disorder-relevant behaviors: Dentel B, Angeles-Perez L, Flores AY, Lei K, Ren C, Sanchez AP, Tsai PT Neurobiology of Disease 2025 Feb 205
Consensus Paper: Cerebellum and Reward: Manto M, Adamaszek M, Apps R, Carlson E, Guarque-Chabrera J, Heleven E, Kakei S, Khodakhah K, Kuo SH, Lin CY, Joshua M, Miquel M, Mitoma H, Larry N, Péron JA, Pickford J, Schutter DJ, Singh MK, Tan T, Tanaka H, Tsai P, Van Overwalle F, Yamashiro K Cerebellum 2024 Oct 23 2169-2192
Cerebellar contribution to autism-relevant behaviors in fragile X syndrome models: Gibson JM, Vazquez AH, Yamashiro K, Jakkamsetti V, Ren C, Lei K, Dentel B, Pascual JM, Tsai PT Cell Reports 2023 Dec 42
Electroencephalographic (EEG) Biomarkers in Genetic Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Goodspeed K, Armstrong D, Dolce A, Evans P, Said R, Tsai P, Sirsi D Journal of child neurology 2023 May 38 466-477
Synaptic BMAL1 phosphorylation controls circadian hippocampal plasticity: Barone I, Gilette NM, Hawks-Mayer H, Handy J, Zhang KJ, Chifamba FF, Mostafa E, Johnson-Venkatesh EM, Sun Y, Gibson JM, Rotenberg A, Umemori H, Tsai PT, Lipton JO Science Advances 2023 9
Increased glycine contributes to synaptic dysfunction and early mortality in Nprl2 seizure model: Dentel B, Angeles-Perez L, Ren C, Jakkamsetti V, Holley AJ, Caballero D, Oh E, Gibson J, Pascual JM, Huber KM, Tu BP, Tsai PT iScience 2022 May 25
A Critical Period for Development of Cerebellar-Mediated Autism-Relevant Social Behavior: Gibson JM, Howland CP, Ren C, Howland C, Vernino A, Tsai PT Journal of Neuroscience 2022 Mar 42 2804-2823
Adaptive Prediction for Social Contexts: The Cerebellar Contribution to Typical and Atypical Social Behaviors: Stoodley CJ, Tsai PT Annual Review of Neuroscience 2021 Jul 44 475-493
Cerebellar Dysfunction in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Deriving Mechanistic Insights from an Internal Model Framework: Kelly E, Escamilla CO, Tsai PT Neuroscience 2021 May 462 274-287
Regulation of autism-relevant behaviors by cerebellar–prefrontal cortical circuits: Kelly E, Meng F, Fujita H, Morgado F, Kazemi Y, Rice LC, Ren C, Escamilla CO, Gibson JM, Sajadi S, Pendry RJ, Tan T, Ellegood J, Albert Basson M, Blakely RD, Dindot SV, Golzio C, Hahn MK, Katsanis N, Robins DM, Silverman JL, Singh KK, Wevrick R, Taylor MJ, Hammill C, Anagnostou E, Pfeiffer BE, Stoodley CJ, Lerch JP, du Lac S, Tsai PT Nature neuroscience 2020 Sep 23 1102-1110