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Zhu Y, Nachtrab G, Keyes PC, Allen WE, Luo L, Chen X.* (2018) Dynamic salience processing in paraventricular thalamus gates associative learning. Science, 362(6413):423-429. PDF

Zhu Y, Wienecke C, Nathtrab G, Chen, X.# (2016) A thalamic input to the nucleus accumbens mediates opiate dependence. Nature, 530:219-222. (#corresponding author). PDF (Highlighted by Nature Reviews Neuroscience: Road to aversion PDF . Prof. Lin Lu previewed this paper in Neurosci. Bull. PDF )

Zhu Y.*, Qiao W.*, Liu K, Zhong H, Yao H.# (2015) Control of response reliability by parvalbumin-expressing interneurons in visual cortex. Nat. Commun. 6:6802. (*co-authors, #corresponding author).  PDF

Zhu Y, Yao H.# (2013) Modification of visual cortical receptive field induced by natural stimuli. Cereb. Cortex. 23:1923-1932. ( #corresponding author). PDF