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 (4)

Top publication keywords:
SoftwareAssociation LearningDopaminergic NeuronsHippocampusLearningCuesDiscrimination LearningMiceMemoryMice, Inbred C57BLRewardConditioning, OperantDopamineConditioning, ClassicalBehavior, Animal

• 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
• 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
• The learning of prospective and retrospective cognitive maps within neural circuits.
  Neuron 2021 K Namboodiri VM, Stuber GD