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

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
    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, PĂ©ron JA, Pickford J, Schutter DJ, Singh MK, Tan T, Tanaka H, Tsai P, Van Overwalle F, Yamashiro K Cerebellum 2024
    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
    Therapeutic Targeting of mTORC2 in mTORopathies
    Dentel B, Escamilla CO, Tsai PT Neuron 2019 Dec 104 1032-1033