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 LegendFeatured Publications

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