Publications
    • Dong P, Wang H, Shen XF, Jiang P, Zhu XT,Li Y, Gao JH, Lin S, Huang Y,He XB, Xu FQ, Duan S,Lian H, Wang H,Chen J, Li XM*. A novel cortico-intrathalamic circuit for flight behavior. Nature Neuroscience. 2019 Jun;22(6):941-949.

    • Shen CJ,Zheng D, Li KX, Yang JM, Pan HQ, Yu XD, Fu JY,Zhu Y,Sun P,Xie Y,Duan S,Hu H, Li XM*. Cannabinoid CB1 receptors in the amygdalar cholecystokinin glutamatergic afferents to nucleus accumbens modulate depressive-like behavior. Nature Medicine. 2019 Feb;25(2):337-349.

    • Li Y, Li CY, Xi W, Jin S, Wu ZH, Jiang P, Dong P, He XB, Xu FQ, Duan SM, Zhou YD, Li XM*. Rostral and Caudal Ventral Tegmental Area GABAergic Inputs to Different Dorsal Raphe Neurons Participate in Opioid Dependence. Neuron. 2019 Feb 20;101(4):748-761. e5.

    • Yang JM,Shen CJ, Chen XJ,Kong Y, Liu YS, Li XW, Chen Z, Gao TM, Li XM*. erbb4 Deficits in Chandelier Cells in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex Confer Cognitive Dysfunctions: Implications for Schizophrenia. Cerebral Cortex. 2018 Dec 22. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhy316.

    • Cao SX, Zhang Y, Hu XY, Hong B, Sun P, He HY, Geng HY, Bao AM, Duan SM, Yang JM, Gao TM, Lian H*, Li XM*. ErbB4 deletion in noradrenergic neurons in the locus coeruleus induces mania-like behavior via elevated catecholamines. eLife.2018 Sep 4;7.pill:e39907.

    • Geng HY, Jing Z, Yang JM, Li Y, Wang N, Ye M, Chen XJ, Lian H and Li XM*. Erbb4 Deletion from Medium Spiny Neurons of the Nucleus Accumbens Core Induces Schizophrenia-Like Behaviors via Elevated GABAA Receptor α1 Subunit Expression. Journal of Neuroscience, 2017 Aug 2;37 (31) : 7450-7464.

    • Zhu JM, Li KX, Cao SX,Chen XJ,Shen CJ,Zhang Y,Geng HY,Chen BQ,Lian H,Zhang JM,Li XM*.Increased NRG1-ErbB4 signaling in human symptomatic epilepsy. Sientific Reports. 2017 Mar 10;7(1):141.

    • Pan G,Yang JM,Hu  XY,Li XM*.  Postnatal development of the electrophysiological properties of somatostatin interneurons in the anterior cingulate cortex of mice. Scientific Reports. 2016 Jun 20;6:28137.

    • Zhang Y,Cao SX,Sun P,He HY,Yang CH,Chen XJ,Shen CJ,Wang XD,Chen Z,Berg DK,Duan SM, Li XM*.Loss of MeCP2 in cholinergic neurons causes part of RTT-like phenotypes via alpha7 receptor in hippocampus. Cell Research. 2016 Jun;26(6):728-42.

    • Ni KM, Hou XJ,Yang CH, Dong P,LiY, Zhang Y,Jiang P, Berg DK, DuanS,and Li XM*. Selectively driving cholinergic fibers optically in the thalamic reticular nucleus promotes sleep. eLife. 2016 Feb 11;5.pii:e10382.

    • Lu YM, Gao YP, Tao RR, Liao MH, Huang JY, Wu G, Han F,Li XM*. Calpain-dependent ErbB4 cleavage is involved in brain ischemia-induced neuronal death. Molecular Neurobiology. 2016 May;53(4):2600-9.

    • Pan G, Li Y, Geng HY, Yang JM, Li KX,Li XM*, Preserving GABAergic interneurons in acute brain slices of mice using the N-methyl-D-glucamine-based artificial cerebrospinal fluid method.Neuroscience Bull. 2015 Apr;31(2),265-70.

    • Yang JM, Zhang J, Yu YQ, Duan SM, Li XM*. Postnatal development of 2 microcircuits involving fast-spiking interneurons in the mouse prefrontal cortex. Cerebral Cortex. 2014 Jan;24(1),98-109.
       

    • Hou XJ, Ni KM, Yang JM,Li XM*. Neuregulin 1/ErbB4 enhances synchronized oscillations of prefrontal cortex neurons via inhibitory synapses. Neuroscience. 2014 Mar 7;261:107-17.

    • Yang JM, Zhang J, Chen XJ, Geng HY, Ye M, Spitzer NC, Luo JH, Duan SM, Li XM*. Development of GABA circuitry of fast-spiking basket interneurons in the medial prefrontal cortex of erbb4-mutant mice. Journal of Neuroscience. 2013 Dec 11;33(50):19724-33.

    • Li KX, Lu YM, Xu ZH, Zhang J, Zhu JM, Zhang JM, Cao SX, Chen XJ, Chen Z, Luo JH, Duan SM, Li XM*. Neuregulin1 signaling regulates excitability of fast-spiking interneurons via Kv1.1 and acts Epilepsy. Nature Neuroscience.2011 Dec 11;15(2):267-73.