Maya Opendak PhD

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience




Dana Cobb-Lewis, Anne George, Shannon Hu, Katherine Packard, Mingyuan Song, Isabellah Nikitah, Oliver Nguyen-Lopez, Emily Tesone, Jhanay Rowden, Julie Wang, Maya Opendak,

(2024). The lateral habenula integrates age and experience to promote social transitions in developing rats. Cell Reports43(8).

Ferrara, N. C., Che, A., Briones, B., Padilla-Coreano, N., Lovett-Barron, M., & Opendak, M. (2023). Neural Circuit Transitions Supporting Developmentally Specific Social Behavior. Journal of Neuroscience43(45), 7456-7462.

Ferrara, N. C., & Opendak, M. (2023). Amygdala circuit transitions supporting developmentally-appropriate social behavior. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory201, 107762.

George, A., Padilla-Coreano, N., & Opendak, M. (2023). For neuroscience, social history matters. Neuropsychopharmacology48(7), 979-980.

Hu, S., Packard, K., & Opendak, M. (2022). Social regulation of negative valence systems during development. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience15, 828685.

Packard, K., & Opendak, M. (2022). Rodent models of early adversity: Impacts on developing social behavior circuitry and clinical implications. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience16, 918862.