Faculty

Yanhua Huang, PhD

Pittsburgh Foundation Endowed Professor in Brain and Behavior Research and Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Contact Details

450 Technology Drive
Pittsburgh
 
PA
 
15219

Education & Training

PhD
Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University
Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience (formerly Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology and Physiology), Washington State University
Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Professional Affiliations

Member, Society for Neuroscience

Selected Honors & Awards

Hamilton Family Award for Basic Neuroscience Research in Psychiatry, Hamilton Family
NARSAD Young Investigator Award, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
Paul Ehrlich Young Investigator Award, Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests

Sleep-mediated regulation of reward; Neuroplasticity in drug addiction
Selected Research Publications & Products
  1. Wang Y, Li D, Widjaja J, Guo R, Cai L, Yan R, Ozsoy S, Allocca G, Fang J, Dong Y, Tseng GC, Huang C,Huang YH (2024) An EEG signature of MCH neuron activities predicts cocaine seeking. Biological Psychiatry 96: 739-751. *Selected for commentary. PMID: 38677639
  2. Guo R, Wang Y, Yan RZ, Chen B, Ding W, Gorczyca MT, Ozsoy S, Cai L, Hines RL, Tseng GC, Allocca G, Dong Y, Fang J, Huang YH (2022) Rapid eye movement sleep engages MCH neurons to reduce cocaine seeking. Biological Psychiatry 92: 880-894. *Selected for commentary. PMID: 35953320
  3. Wang Y, Guo R, Chen B, Rahman T, Cai L, Li Y, Dong Y, Tseng GC, Fang J, Seney ML, Huang YH (2021) Cocaine-induced neural adaptations in the lateral hypothalamic melanin-concentrating hormone neurons and the role in regulating rapid eye movement sleep after withdrawal. Mol Psychiatry26:3152-3168. PMID: 33093653
  4. Liu Z, Wang Y, Cai L, Li Y, Chen B, Dong Y, Huang YH (2016) Prefrontal cortex to accumbens projections in sleep regulation of reward. J Neurosci 36: 7897-7910 *Featured article. PMID: 27466335
  5. Chen B, Wang Y, Liu X, Liu Z, Dong Y, Huang YH(2015) Sleep regulates incubation of cocaine craving. J Neurosci 35: 13300-13310. *Featured article. PMID: 26424879

Education Interests

Research mentorship; Medical and graduate student education