Assistant Professor - Psychology (Behavioural Neuroscience)

We developed DNA-Diffusion, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) method that creates synthetic regulatory elements showing enhanced activity. Multiple synthetic elements demonstrated superior cel...

Recent advances in computer vision have enabled the development of automated animal behavior observation tools. Several software packages currently exist for concurrently tracking pose in multiple ani...

Parhizkar et al. show that lemborexant, an orexin receptor antagonist, protects against neurodegeneration in male tau transgenic mice by preventing tau protein build-up and inflammation, highlighting ...

The medial prefrontal cortex is thought to be important for guiding behavior according to an animal's expectations. Efforts to decode the region have focused not only on the question of what informati...

Norepinephrine oscillations during NREM sleep drive synchronized changes in cerebral blood volume and cerebrospinal fluid, promoting glymphatic clearance. Optogenetic and pharmacological manipulations confirm that vasomotion, regulated by norepinephrine, acts as a pump for brain fluid transport.

Animals capable of complex behaviors tend to have more distinct brain areas than simpler organisms, and artificial networks that perform many tasks tend to self-organize into modules (1-3). This sugge...