Featured Publications

  • The BRAIN Initiative: a pioneering program on the precipice

    Miller, C., Chen, X., Donaldson, Z., Jones Marlin, B., Tsao, D., Williams, Z., Zelikowsky, M., Zeng, H., Hong, W. Nature Neuroscience, Volume 27, pages 2264–2266 (2024).

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  • Dynamic influences on the neural encoding of social valence.

    Padilla-Coreano, N., Tye, K. M., & Zelikowsky, M. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 1-16 (2022).

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  • Neuroscience: The sting of social isolation.

    Grammer, J., & Zelikowsky, M. Current Biology, 32(12), R572-R574 (2022).

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  • The emergence and influence of internal states.

    Flavell, S. W., Gogolla, N., Lovett-Barron, M., & Zelikowsky, M. Neuron (2022).

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  • The Mouse Action Recognition System software pipeline for automated analysis of social behaviors in mice.

    Segalin C, Williams J, Karigo T, Hui M, Zelikowsky M, Sun JJ, Perona P, Anderson DJ, Kennedy A. ELife (2021).

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  • The neuropeptide Tac2 controls a distributed brain state induced by chronic social isolation stress.

    Zelikowsky M, Hui M, Karigo T, Yang B, Blanco M, Beadle K, Gradinaru V, Deverman BE, Anderson DJ. Cell (2018).

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  • Social behaviour shapes hypothalamic neural ensemble representations of conspecific sex.

    Remedios R*, Kennedy A*, Zelikowsky M, Grewe B, Schnitzer M, Anderson DJ. Nature 550, 388–392 (2017).

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  • Neuronal ensembles in amygdala, hippocampus and prefrontal cortex track differential components of contextual fear.

    Zelikowsky M, Chawla M, Hersman S, Barnes CA, Fanselow MS. Journal of Neuroscience 34, 8462-8466 (2014).

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  • Prefrontal microcircuit underlies contextual learning after hippocampal loss.

    Zelikowsky M, Bissiere S, Hast TA, Bennett RZ, Abdipranato A, Vissel B & Fanselow MS. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110, 9938-9943 (2013).

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All Publications by Year

  • Lai TT, Gericke B, Feja M, Conoscenti M, Zelikowsky M, Richter F. Anxiety in synucleinopathies: neuronal circuitry, underlying pathomechanisms and current therapeutic strategies. NPJ Parkinsons Dis. 2023 Jun 22. [PDF]

  • Padilla-Coreano, N., Tye, K. M., & Zelikowsky, M. Dynamic influences on the neural encoding of social valence. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 1-16 (2022) [PDF]

    Grammer, J., & Zelikowsky, M. Neuroscience: The sting of social isolation. Current Biology, 32(12), R572-R574 (2022). [PDF]

    Flavell, S. W., Gogolla, N., Lovett-Barron, M., & Zelikowsky, M. The emergence and influence of internal states. Neuron (2022). [PDF]

  • Segalin C, Williams J, Karigo T, Hui M, Zelikowsky M, Sun JJ, Perona P, Anderson DJ, Kennedy A. The Mouse Action Recognition System (MARS): a software pipeline for automated analysis of social behaviors in mice. ELife (2021). [PDF]

    Eileen Ruth S. Torres, Milos Stanojlovice, Moriel Zelikowsky, Jana Bonsbergere, Sindalana Hean, Caitlin Mulligan, Leonie Baldaufe, Sheila Fleming, Eliezer Masliah, Marie-Francoise Chesseleta, Michael S. Fanselow, Franziska Richter. Alpha-synuclein pathology, microgliosis, and parvalbumin neuron loss in the amygdala associated with enhanced fear in the Thy1-aSyn model of Parkinson's disease. Neurobiology of Disease (2021). [PDF]

    Marvar P, Andero R, Hurlemann R, Lago T, Zelikowsky M, and Dabrowska J. Limbic Neuropeptidergic Modulators of Emotion and Their Therapeutic Potential for Anxiety and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Journal of Neuroscience (2021). [PDF]

  • Love, J and Zelikowsky, M. Stress varies along the social density continuum. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience (2020). [PDF]

  • Zelikowsky M, Ding K, Anderson DJ. Neuropeptidergic control of an internal brain state produced by prolonged social isolation stress. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol (2019). [PDF]

  • Zelikowsky M, Hui M, Karigo T, Yang B, Blanco M, Beadle K, Gradinaru V, Deverman BE, Anderson DJ. The neuropeptide Tac2 controls a distributed brain state induced by chronic social isolation stress. Cell (2018). [PDF]

  • Remedios R*, Kennedy A*, Zelikowsky M, Grewe B, Schnitzer M, Anderson DJ. Social behaviour shapes hypothalamic neural ensemble representations of conspecific sex. Nature 550, 388–392 (2017). [PDF]

  • Kunwar P, Zelikowsky M, Remedios R, Cai H, Yilmaz M, Meister M, Anderson DJ. Ventromedial hypothalamic neurons control a defensive emotion state. eLife 4 (2015). [PDF]

    Hong W, Kennedy A, Burgos-Artizzu XP, Zelikowsky M, Navonne SG, Perona P, Anderson DJ. Automated Measurement of Mouse Social Behaviors Using Depth Sensing, Video Tracking, and Machine Learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, E5351-5360 (2015). [PDF]

  • Zelikowsky M, Chawla M, Hersman S, Barnes CA, Fanselow MS. Neuronal ensembles in amygdala, hippocampus and prefrontal cortex track differential components of contextual fear. Journal of Neuroscience 34, 8462-8466 (2014). [PDF]

    Fanselow MS, Zelikowsky M, Perusini J, Rodriguez-Barrera V, & Hersman S. Isomorphisms between psychological processes and neural mechanisms: from stimulus elements to genetic markers of activity. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 108, 5-13 (2014). [PDF]

  • Zelikowsky M, Bissiere S, Hast TA, Bennett RZ, Abdipranato A, Vissel B & Fanselow MS. Prefrontal microcircuit underlies contextual learning after hippocampal loss. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110, 9938-9943 (2013). [PDF]

    Zelikowsky M, Hast TA, Bennett RZ, Merjanian M, Nocera, NA, Ponnusamy R, Fanselow MS. Cholinergic blockade frees fear extinction from its contextual dependency. Biological Psychiatry 73, 345-352 (2013). [PDF]

  • Zelikowsky M, Bissiere S, Fanselow, MS. Contextual fear memories formed in the absence of the dorsal hippocampus decay across time. Journal of Neuroscience 32, 3393-3397 (2012). [PDF]

    Halladay L, Zelikowsky M, Blair HT, Fanselow MS. Reinstatement of extinguished fear by an unextinguished conditional stimulus. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 6, 18 (2012). [PDF]

    Zelikowsky M, Pham, D, Fanselow, MS. Temporal factors control hippocampal contribution to fear renewal. Hippocampus 22, 1096-1106 (2012). [PDF]

  • Bissiere S, Zelikowsky M, Ponnusamy R, Jacobs NS, Blair HT, Fanselow MS. Electrical synapses control hippocampal contributions to fear learning and memory. Science 331, 87-91 (2011). [PDF]

    Krasne, F, Fanselow, MS, Zelikowsky M. Design of a neurally plausible fear learning model. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 5, 41 (2011). [PDF]

    Zelikowsky M & Fanselow MS. Conditional analgesia, negative feedback & error correction. Associative Learning and Conditioning: Human and Animal Applications (eds Schachtman TR & Reilly SS). Oxford University Press (2011). [PDF]

  • Zelikowsky M & Fanselow MS. Opioid regulation of Pavlovian overshadowing in fear conditioning. Behavioral Neuroscience 124, 510-519 (2010). [PDF]

  • Craske MG, Kircanski K, Zelikowsky M, Mystkowski J, Chowdhury N, Baker A. Optimizing inhibitory learning during exposure therapy. Behavioral Research and Therapy 46, 5-27 (2008). [PDF]