Katalin M. Gothard, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Physiology
Associate Professor Neurology
Associate Professor Physiological Sciences - GIDP
Assistant Professor Neurobiology
Assistant Professor, Evelyn F McKnight Brain Institute
Assistant Professor BIO5 Institute
Research Interests
The Gothard laboratory is focused on the neurophysiology of brain circuits involved in emotion, social behavior, and decision-making and is currently engaged in pursuing the following questions: What is the contribution of interoceptive afferents to higher cognitive functions and decision-making? What are the morphological, behavioral, and neurophysiological changes in the adolescent brain? What type of neural circuits control the production of facial expressions?
Publication Highlights
Gothard, K. M. (2020). Multidimensional processing in the amygdala. Nature ReviewsNeuroscience, 21(10), 565-575.
Martin, Anne B., Michael A. Cardenas, Rose K. Andersen, Archer I. Bowman, ElizabethA. Hillier, Sliman Bensmaia, Andrew J. Fuglevand, and Katalin M. Gothard. "A context-dependent switch from sensing to feeling in the primate amygdala." Cell Reports 42, no.2 (2023)
Staudigl, T., Minxha, J., Mamelak, A. N., Gothard, K. M., & Rutishauser, U. (2022).Saccade-related neural communication in the human medial temporal lobe is modulatedby the social relevance of stimuli. Science advances, 8(11), eabl6037
Degrees
- 1988 MD - Timisoara Medical School, Romania
- 1990 Post-Graduate Neurosurgery - Timisoara Medical School, Romania
- 1996 PhD Neuroscience - University of Arizona
- 2022 Post-doctoral - California National Primate Research Center