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Britt Chamberlain

    Education & Training

  • University of Pittsburgh, BPhil, 2019
  • University of Pittsburgh, BA, 2019
Representative Publications

Crummy EA, Chamberlain BL, Gamboa JP, Pierson JL, Ahmari SE. Persistent Threat Avoidance Following Negative Reinforcement Is Not Associated with Elevated State Anxiety. J Neurosci. 2025 Jan 8;45(2):e0815242024. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0815-24.2024. PMID: 39505409; PMCID: PMC11714351.

Piantadosi SC, Manning EE, Chamberlain BL, Hyde J, LaPalombara Z, Bannon NM, Pierson JL, K Namboodiri VM, Ahmari SE. Hyperactivity of indirect pathway-projecting spiny projection neurons promotes compulsive behavior. Nat Commun. 2024 May 24;15(1):4434. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-48331-z. PMID: 38789416; PMCID: PMC11126597.

Chamberlain BL, Ahmari SE. Animal Models for OCD Research. Curr Top Behav Neurosci. 2021;49:55-96. doi: 10.1007/7854_2020_196. PMID: 33763819.

Piantadosi SC, McClain LL, Klei L, Wang J, Chamberlain BL, Springer SA, Lewis DA, Devlin B, Ahmari SE. Transcriptome alterations are enriched for synapse-associated genes in the striatum of subjects with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Transl Psychiatry. 2021 Mar 15;11(1):171. doi: 10.1038/s41398-021-01290-1. PMID: 33723209; PMCID: PMC7961029.

Piantadosi SC, Chamberlain BL, Glausier JR, Lewis DA, Ahmari SE. Lower excitatory synaptic gene expression in orbitofrontal cortex and striatum in an initial study of subjects with obsessive compulsive disorder. Mol Psychiatry. 2021 Mar;26(3):986-998. doi: 10.1038/s41380-019-0431-3. Epub 2019 Jun 5. PMID: 31168067.
Student Year
G4
Career Advisor
Sarah Berman, MD, PhD
Thesis Advisor
Susanne Ahmari, MD, PhD
Program
Neuroscience (CNUP)
Trainee
Current
Training Start Year
2019