Tanner Anderson, PhD
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Postdoctoral FellowAbout
Titles
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biography
Tanner Anderson is a postdoctoral researcher in the Kaye Lab in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale. His research focuses on brain circuits involved in the anxiolytic effects of psychedelic hallucinogens using in vivo and slice electrophysiology. Tanner completed his PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Kentucky in 2025 where he studied how psychedelics alter behavior, synaptic plasticity, and neurophysiology in the claustrocortical synapses.
Last Updated on January 05, 2026.
Appointments
Education & Training
- NRSA F31 Fellow
- University of Kentucky (2025)
- PhD
- University of Kentucky, Neuroscience (2025)
- T32 Trainnee
- University of Kentucky (2023)
- BA
- University of Kentucky, Biology (2017)
Research
Overview
I study the neurophysiology of cortical-projecting claustrum neurons in response to psychedelics, using patch clamp electrophysiology and operant behavior models of substance use and stress.