Genetics of social behavior: Understanding how we mate, fight, and parent
Nirao Shah - Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Major Laboratories and Clinical Translational Neurosciences Incubator) and of Neurobiology
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
Dr. Shah’s lab focuses on understanding how the brain is developmentally wired to be different between the sexes, and how these sexually differentiated neural circuits mediate social behaviors.
Stanford Bio-X Seed Grants
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Synthetic Signaling Pathways for Anterograde Tracing of Neural Circuits in the Mammalian Brain
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Research News
Looking for love in all the wrong hormones
January 31, 2023 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Researchers under Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Nirao Shah have found that oxytocin, commonly...
Sex-typical behavior of mice guided by differences in brain’s gene activity
January 21, 2022 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Nirao Shah and Karl Deisseroth, with Stanford Bio-X...
A discovery about a neural circuit located deep in the brains of female mice may give scientists a map to learn more about female human brains
November 14, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
A discovery about how a neural circuit located deep in the brains of female mice changes in response to...