Andrew Kayser, MD, PhD
Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Fellow of the AAN, American Academy of Neurology, 2022
• Norman Geschwind Prize in Behavioral Neurology, American Academy of Neurology, 2015

Education & Training

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• Residency Neurology Massachusetts General and Brigham & Women's Hospitals 2005
• Internship Medicine Stanford University 2002
• M.D. Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2001
• Ph.D. Graduate Division (Neuroscience) University of California, San Francisco 1999

Interests

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• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Behavioral Neurology

Websites

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• Kayser lab website (kayserlab.ucsf.edu)

Grants and Projects

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• Dopaminergic Mechanisms Underlying Human Social Behavior: A Multimodal Approach, NIH, 2019-2023
• Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Social Function in Alcohol Use Disorders, NIH, 2018-2023
• Developing Behavioral and Neuroimaging Predictors of Stroke Recovery, NIH, 2019-2022
• Remediation of Impaired Self-Regulation in Patients with Mild TBI, NIH, 2014-2019
• Higher-Order Visual Decision Making Networks and Mechanisms, NIH, 2014-2019

Publications (60)

Top publication keywords:
GamblingMotion PerceptionBenzophenonesDecision MakingExploratory BehaviorPrefrontal CortexPsychomotor PerformanceChoice BehaviorVentral StriatumCatechol O-Methyltransferase InhibitorsParietal LobeDopamineFrontal LobeCatechol O-MethyltransferaseNitrophenols

• Dopamine Modulates Effective Connectivity in Frontal Cortex.
  Journal of cognitive neuroscience 2024 Vogelsang DA, Furman DJ, Nee DE, Pappas I, White RL, Kayser AS, D'Esposito M
• Cerebral perfusion in post-stroke aphasia and its relationship to residual language abilities.
  Brain communications 2023 Ivanova MV, Pappas I, Inglis B, Pracar AL, Herron TJ, Baldo JV, Kayser AS, D'Esposito M, Dronkers NF
• Functional MRI: Cognitive Neuroscience Applications.
  Functional Neuroradiology 2023 Andrew S. Kayser, Anthony J. W. Chen, Mark D’Esposito
• From scanner to court: A neuroscientifically informed "reasonable person" test of trademark infringement.
  Science advances 2023 Zhang Z, Good M, Kulikov V, van Horen F, Bartholomew M, Kayser AS, Hsu M
• Connectivity-Defined Subdivisions of the Intraparietal Sulcus Respond Differentially to Abstraction during Decision Making.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2022 Newton M, Cookson SL, D'Esposito M, Kayser A

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• Enhancing dopamine tone modulates global and local cortical perfusion as a function of COMT val158met genotype.
  NeuroImage 2021 Furman DJ, Pappas I, White RL, Kayser AS, D'Esposito M
• Augmenting Frontal Dopamine Tone Enhances Maintenance over Gating Processes in Working Memory.
  Journal of cognitive neuroscience 2021 Furman DJ, Zhang Z, Chatham CH, Good M, Badre D, Hsu M, Kayser AS
• Working memory, cortical dopamine tone, and frontoparietal brain recruitment in post-traumatic stress disorder: a randomized controlled trial.
  Translational psychiatry 2021 Westphal AJ, Ballard ME, Rodriguez N, Vega TA, D'Esposito M, Kayser AS
• Improved normalization of lesioned brains via cohort-specific templates.
  Human brain mapping 2021 Pappas I, Hector H, Haws K, Curran B, Kayser AS, D'Esposito M
• Retrieval-constrained valuation: Toward prediction of open-ended decisions.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2021 Zhang Z, Wang S, Good M, Hristova S, Kayser AS, Hsu M
• A Hierarchical Bayesian Implementation of the Experience-Weighted Attraction Model.
  Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) 2020 Zhang Z, Chandra S, Kayser A, Hsu M, Warren JL
• The catechol-O-methyltransferase inhibitor tolcapone modulates alcohol consumption and impulsive choice in alcohol use disorder.
  Psychopharmacology 2020 Coker AR, Weinstein DN, Vega TA, Miller CS, Kayser AS, Mitchell JM
• Dopamine and Risky Decision-Making in Gambling Disorder.
  eNeuro 2020 Peters J, Vega T, Weinstein D, Mitchell J, Kayser A
• Effects of Dopaminergic Drugs on Cognitive Control Processes Vary by Genotype.
  Journal of cognitive neuroscience 2020 Furman DJ, White RL, Naskolnakorn J, Ye J, Kayser A, D'Esposito M
• Amount and delay insensitivity during intertemporal choice in three neurodegenerative diseases reflects dorsomedial prefrontal atrophy.
  Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 2019 Beagle AJ, Zahir A, Borzello M, Kayser AS, Hsu M, Miller BL, Kramer JH, Chiong W
• Dopamine and Gambling Disorder: Prospects for Personalized Treatment.
  Current addiction reports 2019 Kayser A
• Functional imaging.
  Handbook of clinical neurology 2019 Kayser AS
• Dopamine, time perception, and future time perspective.
  Psychopharmacology 2018 Mitchell JM, Weinstein D, Vega T, Kayser AS
• Working Memory and TBI.
  2018 Andrew S Kayser, Michael E Ballard, Mark D’Esposito
• Effects of tolcapone and bromocriptine on cognitive stability and flexibility.
  Psychopharmacology 2018 Cameron IGM, Wallace DL, Al-Zughoul A, Kayser AS, D'Esposito M
• Perceptual and categorical decision making: goal-relevant representation of two domains at different levels of abstraction.
  Journal of neurophysiology 2017 Shankar S, Kayser AS
• The effect of social rank feedback on risk taking and associated reward processes in adolescent girls.
  Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 2017 Op de Macks ZA, Bunge SA, Bell ON, Kriegsfeld LJ, Kayser AS, Dahl RE
• Neurotechnologies?.
  Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology 2017 A. Kayser, M. D'Esposito
• Right inferior frontal cortex activity correlates with tolcapone responsivity in problem and pathological gamblers.
  NeuroImage. Clinical 2016 Kayser AS, Vega T, Weinstein D, Peters J, Mitchell JM
• Pregnancy outcomes after maternal varenicline use; analysis of surveillance data collected by the European Network of Teratology Information Services.
  Reproductive toxicology (Elmsford, N.Y.) 2016 Richardson JL, Stephens S, Yates LM, Diav-Citrin O, Arnon J, Beghin D, Kayser A, Kennedy D, Cupitt D, Te Winkel B, Peltonen M, Kaplan YC, Thomas SH
• Risky decision-making in adolescent girls: The role of pubertal hormones and reward circuitry.
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2016 Op de Macks ZA, Bunge SA, Bell ON, Wilbrecht L, Kriegsfeld LJ, Kayser AS, Dahl RE
• Frontal Monitoring and Parietal Evidence: Mechanisms of Error Correction.
  Journal of cognitive neuroscience 2016 Navarro-Cebrian A, Knight RT, Kayser AS
• Functional MRI: Applications in Cognitive Neuroscience.
  fMRI Techniques and Protocols 2016 Mark D’Esposito, Andrew Kayser, Anthony Chen
• Neuroeconomic dissociation of semantic dementia and behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia.
  Brain : a journal of neurology 2015 Chiong W, Wood KA, Beagle AJ, Hsu M, Kayser AS, Miller BL, Kramer JH
• Dopamine, time perception, and future time perspective.
  Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2015 Jennifer Mitchell, Dawn Weinstein, Andrew Kayser
• A Neural Correlate of Strategic Exploration at the Onset of Adolescence.
  Journal of cognitive neuroscience 2015 Kayser AS, Op de Macks Z, Dahl RE, Frank MJ
• Oscillatory dynamics coordinating human frontal networks in support of goal maintenance.
  Nature neuroscience 2015 Voytek B, Kayser AS, Badre D, Fegen D, Chang EF, Crone NE, Parvizi J, Knight RT, D'Esposito M
• Dopamine modulates egalitarian behavior in humans.
  Current biology : CB 2015 Sáez I, Zhu L, Set E, Kayser A, Hsu M
• Functional MRI: Cognitive Neuroscience Applications.
  Functional BOLD MRI 2015 Mark D’Esposito, Andrew S. Kayser, Anthony J. W. Chen
• Dopamine, locus of control, and the exploration-exploitation tradeoff.
  Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2014 Kayser AS, Mitchell JM, Weinstein D, Frank MJ
• An approach for identifying brainstem dopaminergic pathways using resting state functional MRI.
  PloS one 2014 Vytlacil J, Kayser A, Miyakawa A, D'Esposito M
• Decomposing effects of time on task reveals an anteroposterior gradient of perceptual decision regions.
  PloS one 2013 Buchsbaum BR, Erickson DT, Kayser AS
• Error-monitoring and post-error compensations: dissociation between perceptual failures and motor errors with and without awareness.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2013 Navarro-Cebrian A, Knight RT, Kayser AS
• The neural representation of sensorimotor transformations in a human perceptual decision making network.
  NeuroImage 2013 Erickson DT, Kayser AS
• The salience network causally influences default mode network activity during moral reasoning.
  Brain : a journal of neurology 2013 Chiong W, Wilson SM, D'Esposito M, Kayser AS, Grossman SN, Poorzand P, Seeley WW, Miller BL, Rankin KP
• Dopamine, corticostriatal connectivity, and intertemporal choice.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2012 Kayser AS, Allen DC, Navarro-Cebrian A, Mitchell JM, Fields HL
• Varenicline decreases alcohol consumption in heavy-drinking smokers.
  Psychopharmacology 2012 Mitchell JM, Teague CH, Kayser AS, Bartlett SE, Fields HL
• Impulsivity and Catechol-O-Methyltransferase Inhibition: A Translational Study (SC01.001).
  Neurology 2012 A. Kayser, D. Allen, A. Navarro-Cebrian, J. Mitchell, H. Fields
• Impulsivity and Catechol-O-Methyltransferase Inhibition: A Translational Study (S29.004).
  Neurology 2012 A. Kayser, D. Allen, A. Navarro-Cebrian, J. Mitchell, H. Fields
• Abstract Rule Learning: The Differential Effects of Lesions in Frontal Cortex (IN4-2.003).
  Neurology 2012 A. Kayser, M. D'Esposito
• Abstract Rule Learning: The Differential Effects of Lesions in Frontal Cortex (PD7.007).
  Neurology 2012 A. Kayser, M. D'Esposito
• Abstract rule learning: the differential effects of lesions in frontal cortex.
  Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2012 Kayser AS, D'Esposito M
• Neurotechnologies.
  Encyclopedia of Human Behavior 2012 A. Kayser, M. D'Esposito
• Functional MRI: Cognitive Neuroscience Applications.
  Functional Neuroradiology 2011 Mark D’Esposito, Andrew S. Kayser, Anthony J. W. Chen
• Neural representations of relevant and irrelevant features in perceptual decision making.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010 Kayser AS, Erickson DT, Buchsbaum BR, D'Esposito M
• Double dissociation of two cognitive control networks in patients with focal brain lesions.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2010 Nomura EM, Gratton C, Visser RM, Kayser A, Perez F, D'Esposito M
• Frontal cortex and the discovery of abstract action rules.
  Neuron 2010 Badre D, Kayser AS, D'Esposito M
• The functional anatomy of a perceptual decision in the human brain.
  Journal of neurophysiology 2009 Kayser AS, Buchsbaum BR, Erickson DT, D'Esposito M
• A comparison of Granger causality and coherency in fMRI-based analysis of the motor system.
  Human brain mapping 2009 Kayser AS, Sun FT, D'Esposito M
• A Functional Network Involved in Perceptual Decision-Making: Mechanisms of Evidence Accumulation.
  NeuroImage 2009 AS Kayser, BR Buchsbaum, DT Erickson, M D'Esposito
• fMRI: Applications in Cognitive Neuroscience.
  fMRI Techniques and Protocols 2009 Mark D’Esposito, Andrew Kayser, Anthony Chen
• Opponent inhibition: a developmental model of layer 4 of the neocortical circuit.
  Neuron 2002 Kayser AS, Miller KD
• Contrast-dependent nonlinearities arise locally in a model of contrast-invariant orientation tuning.
  Journal of neurophysiology 2001 Kayser A, Priebe NJ, Miller KD
• Is the development of orientation selectivity instructed by activity?
  Journal of neurobiology 1999 Miller KD, Erwin E, Kayser A
• The nucleotide sequence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosome V.
  Nature 1997 Dietrich FS, Mulligan J, Hennessy K, Yelton MA, Allen E, Araujo R, Aviles E, Berno A, Brennan T, Carpenter J, Chen E, Cherry JM, Chung E, Duncan M, Guzman E, Hartzell G, Hunicke-Smith S, Hyman RW, …