About the Authors

Yun-Beom Choi

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Beena M. Kadakkuzha

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida, Jupiter, Florida, United States of America

Xin-An Liu

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida, Jupiter, Florida, United States of America

Komolitdin Akhmedov

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida, Jupiter, Florida, United States of America

Eric R. Kandel

sputhanv@scripps.edu (SVP); erk5@columbia.edu (ERK)

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Kavli Institute for Brain Science, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Sathyanarayanan V. Puthanveettil

sputhanv@scripps.edu (SVP); erk5@columbia.edu (ERK)

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida, Jupiter, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SVP YBC ERK. Analyzed the data: YBC SVP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SVP YBC BMK. Wrote the paper: YBC SVP ERK. Carried out all the electrophysiology experiments: YBC. Carried out 5-HT treatments and qRTPCRs: SVP BMK KA. Carried out in situ hybridization and imaging analyses: BMK XAL.