Clare Timbie

I graduated from Tufts University with a BS in biopsychology, and am currently an MD/PhD student working with Dr. Helen Barbas to study the neural circuitry of emotional learning.  Our goal is to investigate the organization and synaptic features of the pathway connecting the amygdala, posterior orbitofrontal cortex, and thalamus.  This circuit plays a key role in learning associations while maintaining behavioral flexibility, a process thought to be disrupted in psychiatric diseases such as phobia and obsessive compulsive disorder.

 

Publications:

Barbas H, Zikopoulos B, Timbie C. Sensory pathways and emotional context for action in primate prefrontal cortex. Biol Psychiatry. 2011 Jun 15;69(12):1133-9. Review.

Simms ML, Kemper TL, Timbie CM, Bauman ML, Blatt GJ. The anterior cingulate cortex in autism: heterogeneity of qualitative and quantitative cytoarchitectonic features suggests possible subgroups. Acta Neuropathol. 2009 Nov;118(5):673-84.