Joseph Stujenske, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Bioengineering

Areas of Expertise

  • Anxiety, OCD & Trauma Disorders
  • Basic & Translational Neuroscience
Joseph Stujenske, MD, PhD
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Expertise & Interests

Research Interests

Brain mechanisms underlying safety; Fear & anxiety

Selected Publications

  1. Silva SADCE, McDonald NJ, Chamaria A, Stujenske JM. Population imaging of internal state circuits relevant to psychiatric disease: A review. Neurophotonics. 2025 Jan 12(Suppl 1):S14607.
  2. Munguba H, Srivastava I, Gutzeit VA, Singh A, Vijay A, Kristt M, Arefin A, Thukral S, Broichhagen J, Stujenske JM, Liston C, Levitz J (2024). Projection-Targeted Photopharmacology Reveals Distinct Anxiolytic Roles for Presynaptic mGluR2 in Prefrontal- and Insula-Amygdala Synapses. Neuron. 2025 Mar 19;113(6):912-930.e6.
  3. Stujenske JM, O'Neill P, Fernandes-Henriques C, Nahmoud I, Goldburg SR, Singh A, Diaz L, Labkovich M, Hardin W, Bolkan SS, Reardon TR, Spellman TJ, Salzman CD, Gordon JA, Liston C, Likhtik E (2022). Prelimbic cortex drives discrimination of non-aversion via amygdala somatostatin interneurons. Neuron 110:2258-2267.e11
  4. Stujenske JM+, Spellman T, Gordon JA+. Modeling the spatiotemporal dynamics of light and heat propagation for in vivo optogenetics. Cell Reports. 2015 Jul 21;12(3):525-34.
  5. Stujenske JM, Likhtik E, Topiwalla MA, Gordon JA. Fear and safety engage competing patterns of theta-gamma coupling in the basolateral amygdala. Neuron. 2014 Aug 20;83(4):919-33.

Education & Credentials

Education & Training

Education
MD, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Education
PhD, Neuroscience, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Residency
Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center

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