Publications
Murugan Lab
Publications
J.L. Javier, H. Balasubramanian, J. Isaac, M. Murugan. Non-overlapping neural representations of social and non-social reward in the basolateral amygdala (2025). biorxiv.
J. Isaac*, S.C. Karkare*, H. Balasubramanian, M. Murugan. Organization of brainwide inputs to discrete lateral septum projection populations (2025). The Journal of Neuroscience.
M. Rashid, S. Thomas, J. Isaac, S.C. Karkare, H. Klein, M. Murugan. A ventral hippocampal - lateral septum pathway helps drive novelty-related social investigation (2025). eLife.
J. Isaac*, H. Balasubramanian*, S.C. Karkare, N. Schappaugh, M. Murugan. A fully automated, low-cost two choice operant assay for quantitative assessment of social and nonsocial reward-seeking in mice (2025).STAR Protocols.
J. Isaac and M. Murugan*. An interconnected social decision-making network mediates social reward. (2024). Trends in Neuroscience.
J. Isaac, S.C. Karkare, H. Balasubramanian, N. Schappaugh, J.L. Javier, M. Rashid, M. Murugan*. Sex differences in neural representations of social and nonsocial reward in the medial prefrontal cortex (2024). Nature Communications.
B. A. Fricker, M. Murugan, A. W. Seifert, A. M. Kelly. Cingulate to septal circuitry facilitates the preference to affiliate with large peer groups (2024). Current Biology.
L. Willmore, B. Engelhard, A. Minerva, B. McMannon; N. Oak; S. Thiberge, M. Murugan; C. Pena; I. Witten. Overlapping representations of food and social stimuli in VTA dopamine neurons. (2023). Neuron.
N.F. Parker, A. Baidya, J.Cox, L. Haetzel, A. Zhukovskaya, M. Murugan, B. Engelhard, M.S. Goldman, I.B. Witten. Choice-selective sequences dominate in cortical relative to thalamic inputs to NAc to support reinforcement learning (2022). Cell Reports.
C. Cameron, M. Murugan, CY Choi JY, I.B. Witten. Increased Cocaine Motivation Is Associated with Degraded Spatial and Temporal Representations in IL-NAc Neurons (2019). Neuron.
M. Murugan, H.J. Jang, M. Park, E.M. Miller, J. Cox, J.P. Taliaferro, N.F. Parker, V. Bhave, H. Hur, Y. Liang, A.R. Nectow, J.W. Pillow1, I.B. Witten. Combined social and spatial coding in a descending projection from the prefrontal cortex (2017). Cell.
M. Tanaka, J.S. Alvarado, M. Murugan, & R. Mooney. Focal expression of mutant huntingtin in the songbird basal ganglia disrupts cortico-basal ganglia networks and vocal sequences (2016). PNAS.
M. Murugan, S. Harward, C. Scharff, R. Mooney (2013). Diminished FoxP2 levels affect dopaminergic modulation of corticostriatal signaling important to song variability. Neuron.
T.F. Roberts, S.M.H. Gobes, M. Murugan, B.P. Olveczky, R. Mooney (2012) Motor circuits are required to encode a sensory model for imitative learning. Nature Neuroscience.
Invited commentary
M. Rashid, M. Murugan*. Neural Correlates of Cue-Evoked Synchronous Fear Responses. (2023) Biological Psychiatry.