Vikaas Sohal, MD, PhD

Professor
M_Psych-Core-Rsch
[email protected]
+1 415 502-7377

Dr. Sohal directs a neuroscience laboratory that investigates the brain circuits underlying fundamental aspects of cognition and emotion. His laboratory has made important discoveries about the role of rhythmic patterns of brain activity called gamma oscillations in normal cognition and schizophrenia, and about how other rhythmic patterns of brain activity encode changes in emotional states. Dr. Sohal is also a board-certified psychiatrist who supervises residents in the Early Psychosis (PATH) clinic.

After earning a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics at Harvard University, Dr. Sohal earned a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Cambridge in England. He earned his medical and doctoral degrees at Stanford University, where he also completed a residency in adult psychiatry. During residency Dr. Sohal carried out postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Dr Karl Deisseroth, performing some of the first experiments using optogenetics to study information processing in brain circuits.

Publications

1166 Optogenetic Modulation of Network Activity in Human Hippocampus.

Neurosurgery

John P. Andrews, Sury Jinghui Geng, Kateryna Voitiuk, Matthew Elliot, David Shin, Ash Robbins, Alex Spaeth, Albert Wang, Lin Li, Daniel Solis, Matthew Keefe, Jessica Sevetson, Julio Rivera-de Jesus, Kevin Donohue, Hailey Larson, Drew Ehrlich, Kurtis Auguste, Sofie Salama, Vikaas Sohal, Tal Sharf, David Haussler, Cathryn Cadwell, David Schafer, Edward Chang, Mircea Teodorescu, Tomasz Nowakowski

The Psychiatric Cell Map Initiative: A Convergent Systems Biological Approach to Illuminating Key Molecular Pathways in Neuropsychiatric Disorders.

Cell

Willsey AJ, Morris MT, Wang S, Willsey HR, Sun N, Teerikorpi N, Baum TB, Cagney G, Bender KJ, Desai TA, Srivastava D, Davis GW, Doudna J, Chang E, Sohal V, Lowenstein DH, Li H, Agard D, Keiser MJ, Shoichet B, von Zastrow M, Mucke L, Finkbeiner S, Gan L, Sestan N, Ward ME, Huttenhain R, Nowakowski TJ, Bellen HJ, Frank LM, Khokha MK, Lifton RP, Kampmann M, Ideker T, State MW, Krogan NJ