Publications



Tangen, A.C, Harmon, P., Plotnikova, A., Mohanty, A., Cummins, A.C., Pelkey, K.A., Cameron, K., Rood, C., Guerriero, K.A., McBain, C.J., Eldridge, M.A., Averbeck, B., and Azadi, R. Surgical protocol for precise high-throughput and precise viral injections in rhesus monkey brain. STAR Protocols 7.2 (2026): 104522.

Kim, J.H., …, Azadi R., … and Pelkey K.A. Discrete interneuron subsets participate in glun1/glun3a excitatory glycine receptor (eglyr)-mediated regulation of hippocampal network activity throughout development and evolution. Neuron (under review), bioRxiv, pages 2025–09, 2025.

Furlanis, E., …, Azadi, R., …, and Wang, Y. An enhancer-aav toolbox to target and manipulate distinct interneuron subtypes. Neuron, 113(10):1525–1547, 2025

Shahbazi, E., Nguyen, D., Swedan, T., Ma, T., Lafer-Sousa, R., Dinh, A., Azadi, R., Ryan, A.M.,

and Afraz, A. 3D-printable non-invasive head immobilization system for non-human primates. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, page 110593, 2025.

Azadi, R., Lopez, E., Taubert, J., Patterson, A., and Afraz, A. Inactivation of face-selective neurons alters eye movements when free viewing faces. PNAS, 121(3):e2309906121, 2024.

Azadi, R., Holcombe, A.O, and Edelman, J.A. Hypometria of saccadic eye movements to targets in rapid circular motion. Journal of Vision, 24(1):2–2, 2024.

Azadi, R., Bohn, S., Lopez, E., Lafer-Sousa, R., Wang, K., Eldridge, M.A., and Afraz, A. Image-dependence of the detectability of optogenetic stimulation in macaque inferotemporal cortex. Current Biology, 33(3):581–588, 2023.

Azadi, R., Bohn, S., Eldridge, M.A., and Afraz, A. Surgical procedure for implantation of opto-array in nonhuman primates. Current Protocols, 3(3):e704, 2023.

Lafer-Sousa, R., Wang, K., Azadi, R., Lopez, E., Bohn, S., and Afraz, A. Behavioral detectability of optogenetic stimulation of inferior temporal cortex varies with the size of concurrently viewed objects. Current Research in Neurobiology, 4:100063, 2023.

Azadi, R., and McPeek, R.M. Contextual saccade adaptation induced by sequential saccades. Journal of Neurophysiology, 127(3):746–755, 2022.

Rajalingham, R., Sorenson, M., Azadi, R., Bohn, S., DiCarlo, J.J, and Afraz, A. Chronically implantable led arrays for behavioral optogenetics in primates. Nature Methods, 18(9):1112–1116, 2021.

Azadi, R., Zhu, E.Y, and McPeek, R.M. Modulation of saccade trajectories during sequential saccades. Journal of Neurophysiology, 125(3):796–804, 2021.

De Vries, J.P., Azadi, R., and Harwood, M.R. The saccadic size-latency phenomenon explored: Proximal target size is a determining factor in the saccade latency. Vision Research, 129:87–97, 2016.

Azadi, R., and Harwood, M.R. Visual cues that are effective for contextual saccade adaptation. Journal of Neurophysiology, 111(11):2307–2319, 2014.