1. Kay M Tye was born on c 1981 and is an American neuroscientist and professor and Wylie Vale Chair in the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences.
11 Facts About Kay Tye
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Kay Tye's research has focused on using optogenetics to identify connections in the brain that are involved in innate emotion, motivation and social behaviors.
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Kay Tye completed a Bachelor of Science with a major in cognitive science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1999 to 2003.
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Kay Tye joined the laboratory of neurobiologist Patricia Janak where she completed her thesis showing that neuronal activity was increased in a region of the brain associated with processing of emotions, called the amygdala, in rats learning to associate a stimulus with a reward.
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From 2008 to 2009, Kay Tye worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the UCSF Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center and then at Stanford University from 2009 to 2011.
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Kay Tye returned to MIT in 2012 as an assistant professor at the university's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory.
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Kay Tye's research has focused on answering questions on how the same neural mechanism in the amygdala of the brain can regulate such different behavioral responses to negative and positive environmental cues.
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Kay Tye's work has contributed to the understanding of social behaviors such as reward-seeking and anxiety, and provided insights into the basis of psychiatric diseases.
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Kay Tye's work has looked at alcoholism and brain circuitry, where Tye led a team of researchers to identify how the brain is altered in mice that predicted increased levels of compulsive drinking.
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Kay Tye received the NIH Director's New Innovator Award in 2013 and the NARSAD Young Investigator Award in 2014.
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In November 2019, Kay Tye gave a TED Talk at the National Academy of Sciences titled "What Investigating Neural Pathways Can Reveal About Mental Health".