Avishek Adhikari

Honors and Awards

• PhD thesis unanimously approved "with distinction" by thesis committee, Columbia University (2010)
• Kavli graduate student travel award, Kavli Institute (2010)
• 2nd place on the University-wide Annual Neuroscience poster show, Columbia University (2008)
• Antoine Lavoisier award for being the Valedictorian of chemistry majors of the class of 2000, University of Sao Paulo-Dept. of Chemistry (2004)
• Travel award for the Society for Free Radical Research International meeting, Society for Free Radical Research International (2004)

Professional Education

Publications

• Single units in the medial prefrontal cortex with anxiety-related firing patterns are preferentially influenced by ventral hippocampal activity. Adhikari A, Topiwala MA, Gordon JA. Neuron. 2011; 71 (5): 898-910
• Cross-correlation of instantaneous amplitudes of field potential oscillations: a straightforward method to estimate the directionality and lag between brain areas. Adhikari A, Sigurdsson T, Topiwala MA, Gordon JA. J Neurosci Methods. 2010; 191 (2): 191-200
• Synchronized activity between the ventral hippocampus and the medial prefrontal cortex during anxiety. Adhikari A, Topiwala MA, Gordon JA. Neuron. 2010; 65 (2): 257-69
• Disrupted activity in the hippocampal-accumbens circuit of type III neuregulin 1 mutant mice. Nason MW, Adhikari A, Bozinoski M, Gordon JA, Role LW. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2011; 36 (2): 488-96
• Influence of spontaneous calcium events on cell-cycle progression in embryonal carcinoma and adult stem cells. Resende RR, Adhikari A, da Costa JL, Lorençon E, Ladeira MS, Guatimosim S, Kihara AH, Ladeira LO. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2010; 1803 (2): 246-60