Vijay Namboodiri, PhD
Associate Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 10/2020

Grants and Projects

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• Network and circuit dynamics supporting dopaminergic control of sudden insight learning, NIH, 2025-2030
• Orbitofrontal circuit mechanisms underlying alcohol use disorder, NIH, 2022-2027
• Prospective and retrospective learning in orbitofrontal cortex, NIH, 2022-2027
• Neural encoding of associative learning by orbitofrontal cortex circuits, NIH, 2020-2023
• Neural encoding of associative learning by orbitofrontal cortex circuits, NIH, 2019-2021

Publications (34)

Top publication keywords:
Time PerceptionAssociation LearningDopaminergic NeuronsPrefrontal CortexLearningCuesMemory, Long-TermLimbic SystemOptogeneticsHabenulaRewardInteroceptionDopamineConditioning, ClassicalNeurons

• Publisher Correction: Duration between rewards controls the rate of behavioral and dopaminergic learning.
  Nature neuroscience 2026 Burke DA, Taylor A, Jeong H, Lee S, Zsembik L, Wu B, Floeder JR, Naik GA, Chen R, Namboodiri VMK
• Duration between rewards controls the rate of behavioral and dopaminergic learning.
  Nature neuroscience 2026 Burke DA, Taylor A, Jeong H, Lee S, Zsembik L, Wu B, Floeder JR, Naik GA, Chen R, Namboodiri VMK
• Memory erasure by dopamine-gated retrospective learning.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2026 Jeong H, Zsembik L, Farouq F, Chakraborty R, Belur N, Zhou M, Sanders AD, Wang SX, Srinivasan A, Cox SML, Garr E, Brooke S, Janak PH, Leyton M, Chen R, Namboodiri VMK
• Pre-existing and emergent cortical neuronal assembly sequences during learning.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2025 Pemberton L, Jeong H, Namboodiri VMK
• Mesolimbic dopamine ramps reflect environmental timescales.
  eLife 2025 Floeder JR, Jeong H, Mohebi A, Namboodiri VMK

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• Mesostriatal dopamine is sensitive to changes in specific cue-reward contingencies.
  Science advances 2024 Garr E, Cheng Y, Jeong H, Brooke S, Castell L, Bal A, Magnard R, Namboodiri VMK, Janak PH
• Sensory cortical ensembles exhibit differential coupling to ripples in distinct hippocampal subregions.
  Current biology : CB 2023 Jeong H, Namboodiri VMK, Jung MW, Andermann ML
• An open-source behavior controller for associative learning and memory (B-CALM).
  Behavior research methods 2023 Zhou M, Wu B, Jeong H, Burke DA, Namboodiri VMK
• Sensory cortical ensembles exhibit differential coupling to ripples in distinct hippocampal subregions.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023 Jeong H, Namboodiri VMK, Jung MW, Andermann ML
• Mesolimbic dopamine release conveys causal associations.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2022 Jeong H, Taylor A, Floeder JR, Lohmann M, Mihalas S, Wu B, Zhou M, Burke DA, Namboodiri VMK
• How do real animals account for the passage of time during associative learning?
  Behavioral neuroscience 2022 Namboodiri VMK
• Developments from Bulk Optogenetics to Single-Cell Strategies to Dissect the Neural Circuits that Underlie Aberrant Motivational States.
  Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine 2022 Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Namboodiri VMK, Basiri ML, Stamatakis AM, Stuber GD
• The learning of prospective and retrospective cognitive maps within neural circuits.
  Neuron 2021 K Namboodiri VM, Stuber GD
• Prepronociceptin-Expressing Neurons in the Extended Amygdala Encode and Promote Rapid Arousal Responses to Motivationally Salient Stimuli.
  Cell reports 2020 Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Ung RL, Nomura H, Otis JM, Basiri ML, Namboodiri VMK, Zhu X, Robinson JE, van den Munkhof HE, McHenry JA, Eckman LEH, Kosyk O, Jhou TC, Kash TL, Bruchas MR, Stuber GD
• Heterogeneous Habenular Neuronal Ensembles during Selection of Defensive Behaviors.
  Cell reports 2020 Lecca S, Namboodiri VMK, Restivo L, Gervasi N, Pillolla G, Stuber GD, Mameli M
• Interoceptive Inception in Insula.
  Neuron 2020 Namboodiri VMK, Stuber GD
• Social Stimuli Induce Activation of Oxytocin Neurons Within the Paraventricular Nucleus of the Hypothalamus to Promote Social Behavior in Male Mice.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2020 Resendez SL, Namboodiri VMK, Otis JM, Eckman LEH, Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Ung RL, Basiri ML, Kosyk O, Rossi MA, Dichter GS, Stuber GD
• Persistent activation of central amygdala CRF neurons helps drive the immediate fear extinction deficit.
  Nature communications 2020 Jo YS, Namboodiri VMK, Stuber GD, Zweifel LS
• Paraventricular Thalamus Projection Neurons Integrate Cortical and Hypothalamic Signals for Cue-Reward Processing.
  Neuron 2019 Otis JM, Zhu M, Namboodiri VMK, Cook CA, Kosyk O, Matan AM, Ying R, Hashikawa Y, Hashikawa K, Trujillo-Pisanty I, Guo J, Ung RL, Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Anton ES, Stuber GD
• Single-cell activity tracking reveals that orbitofrontal neurons acquire and maintain a long-term memory to guide behavioral adaptation.
  Nature neuroscience 2019 Namboodiri VMK, Otis JM, van Heeswijk K, Voets ES, Alghorazi RA, Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Mihalas S, Stuber GD
• The Timing of Reward-Seeking Action Tracks Visually Cued Theta Oscillations in Primary Visual Cortex.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2017 Levy JM, Zold CL, Namboodiri VMK, Hussain Shuler MG
• Prefrontal cortex output circuits guide reward seeking through divergent cue encoding.
  Nature 2017 Otis JM, Namboodiri VM, Matan AM, Voets ES, Mohorn EP, Kosyk O, McHenry JA, Robinson JE, Resendez SL, Rossi MA, Stuber GD
• The habenula.
  Current biology : CB 2016 Namboodiri VM, Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Stuber GD
• Cell-Type-Specific Optogenetics in Monkeys.
  Cell 2016 Namboodiri VMK, Stuber GD
• Coordination of Brain-Wide Activity Dynamics by Dopaminergic Neurons.
  Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2016 Decot HK, Namboodiri VM, Gao W, McHenry JA, Jennings JH, Lee SH, Kantak PA, Jill Kao YC, Das M, Witten IB, Deisseroth K, Shih YI, Stuber GD
• Rationalizing spatial exploration patterns of wild animals and humans through a temporal discounting framework.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2016 Namboodiri VM, Levy JM, Mihalas S, Sims DW, Hussain Shuler MG
• Visualization of cortical, subcortical and deep brain neural circuit dynamics during naturalistic mammalian behavior with head-mounted microscopes and chronically implanted lenses.
  Nature protocols 2016 Resendez SL, Jennings JH, Ung RL, Namboodiri VM, Zhou ZC, Otis JM, Nomura H, McHenry JA, Kosyk O, Stuber GD
• Analytical Calculation of Errors in Time and Value Perception Due to a Subjective Time Accumulator: A Mechanistic Model and the Generation of Weber's Law.
  Neural computation 2015 Namboodiri VM, Mihalas S, Hussain Shuler MG
• Memory bias in the temporal bisection point.
  Frontiers in integrative neuroscience 2015 Levy JM, Namboodiri VM, Hussain Shuler MG
• Visually cued action timing in the primary visual cortex.
  Neuron 2015 Namboodiri VM, Huertas MA, Monk KJ, Shouval HZ, Hussain Shuler MG
• A temporal basis for Weber's law in value perception.
  Frontiers in integrative neuroscience 2014 Namboodiri VM, Mihalas S, Hussain Shuler MG
• Report of interval timing or action?
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2014 Namboodiri VM, Hussain Shuler MG
• A general theory of intertemporal decision-making and the perception of time.
  Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience 2014 Namboodiri VM, Mihalas S, Marton TM, Hussain Shuler MG
• Rationalizing Decision-Making: Understanding the Cost and Perception of Time.
  Timing & time perception reviews 2014 Namboodiri VMK, Mihalas S, Shuler MGH