Peter Tsai, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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
Featured Publications
- Adaptive Prediction for Social Contexts: The Cerebellar Contribution to Typical and Atypical Social Behaviors.
- Stoodley CJ, Tsai PT, Annu Rev Neurosci 2021 Jul 44 475-493
- 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, Basson MA, 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, Nat Neurosci 2020 09 23 9 1102-1110
- Sensitive Periods for Cerebellar-Mediated Autistic-like Behaviors.
- Tsai PT, Rudolph S, Guo C, Ellegood J, Gibson JM, Schaeffer SM, Mogavero J, Lerch JP, Regehr W, Sahin M Cell Rep 2018 Oct 25 2 357-367.e4
- Altered cerebellar connectivity in autism and cerebellar-mediated rescue of autism-related behaviors in mice.
- Stoodley CJ, D'Mello AM, Ellegood J, Jakkamsetti V, Liu P, Nebel MB, Gibson JM, Kelly E, Meng F, Cano CA, Pascual JM, Mostofsky SH, Lerch JP, Tsai PT Nat. Neurosci. 2017 Dec 20 12 1744-1751
- Autistic-like behaviour and cerebellar dysfunction in Purkinje cell Tsc1 mutant mice.
- Tsai PT, Hull C, Chu Y, Greene-Colozzi E, Sadowski AR, Leech JM, Steinberg J, Crawley JN, Regehr WG, Sahin M Nature 2012 Aug 488 7413 647-51
- Cerebellar Dysfunction in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Deriving Mechanistic Insights from an Internal Model Framework.
- Kelly E, Escamilla CO, Tsai PT, Neuroscience 2021 05 462 274-287
- 4-integrin deficiency.
- Hussain RZ, Cravens PC, Doelger R, Dentel B, Herndon E, Loof N, Tsai P, Okuda DT, Racke MK, Stüve O Ann Clin Transl Neurol 2018 Dec 5 12 1543-1561
- Aberrant Proteostasis of BMAL1 Underlies Circadian Abnormalities in a Paradigmatic mTOR-opathy.
- Lipton JO, Boyle LM, Yuan ED, Hochstrasser KJ, Chifamba FF, Nathan A, Tsai PT, Davis F, Sahin M Cell Rep 2017 Jul 20 4 868-880
- The Role of the Pediatric Cerebellum in Motor Functions, Cognition, and Behavior: A Clinical Perspective.
- Salman MS, Tsai P Neuroimaging Clin. N. Am. 2016 Aug 26 3 317-29
- Autism and cerebellar dysfunction: Evidence from animal models.
- Tsai PT Semin Fetal Neonatal Med 2016 May