2025

Cortical representations of affective pain shape empathic fear in male mice

Choi J, Lee YB, So D, Kim JY, Choi S, Kim S, Keum S. Nat Commun. 2025. 16(1):1937.

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2024

ARNT2 controls prefrontal somatostatin interneurons mediating affective empathy

Choi J, Jung S, Kim J, So D, Kim A, Kim S, Choi S, Yoo E, Kim JY, Jang YC, Lee H, Kim J, Shin HS, Chae S, Keum S. Cell Rep. 2024. 43(9):114659.

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Observational Fear as a Model of Affective Empathy in Mice

Lee H, So D, Choi J, Jung S, Keum S. J Vis Exp (JoVE). 2024.  22;(213). doi: 10.3791/67130.

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2020 

Non-invasive optical control of endogenous Ca2+ channels in awake mice

Kim S, Kyung T, Chung JH, Kim N, Keum S, Lee J, Park H, Kim HM, Lee S, Shin HS, Heo WD.  Nat Commun. 2020. 11:210.

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2019

Neural Basis of Observational Fear Learning: A Potential Model of Affective Empathy

Keum S and Shin HS. Neuron. 2019 104(1):78-86.

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Genetic factors associated with empathy in humans and mice

Keum S and Shin HS. Neuropharmacology. 2019. pii: S0028-3908(19)30029-2.

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Observational fear behavior in rodents as a model for empathy

Kim A, Keum S, Shin HS. Genes Brain Behav. 2019. 18(1):e12521.

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2018

A Missense Variant at the Nrxn3 Locus Enhances Empathy Fear in the Mouse

Keum S*, Kim A*, Shin JJ, Kim JH, Park J, Shin HS. Neuron. 2018. 98(3): 588-601. 

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- This paper has been selected as a featured article and highlighted in Neuron by a preview article by Dr. Gloria Choi.

- This article has been recommended in F1000Prime as being of special significance in its field by F1000 Faculty Member Dr. Louis F Reichard.

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2016

Rodent models for studying empathy

Keum S and Shin HS. Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2016. 135: 22-26.

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Variability in empathic fear response among 11 inbred strains of mice

Keum S, Park J, Kim A, Park J, Kim KK, Jeong J, Shin HS. Genes Brain Behav. 2016. 15(2): 231-42.​