Understanding brain-body-social homeostasis under stress

SHINE Lab studies how brain, body, and social environments interact to maintain internal stability under stress.

We investigate how social competition, hierarchy, and environmental challenges reshape neural circuit states and physiological regulation.

Rather than treating stress as a binary condition, we conceptualize it as a dynamic state variable emerging from distributed brain-body interactions.

Using behavioral analysis, circuit physiology, and molecular profiling, we aim to identify mechanisms that stabilize or destabilize homeostatic control across levels of organization.