Haijiang Cai
Associate Professor, Neuroscience
Associate Professor, Translational Neuroscience
Associate Professor, Neuroscience - GIDP (
Associate Professor, BIO5 Institute
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Member of the Graduate Faculty
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Dr. Haijiang Cai's lab studies neural circuitry mechanism of behaviors in health and disease, and develop research tools as well as disease therapies. Recently, the lab has identified specific neural circuits in a brain region called amygdala that play important roles in both emotion and feeding behavior, which could be targeted to treat eating disorders or depression.