Plexon Research Spotlight

Our goal with Plexon Research Spotlight is to support neuroscience research and share how Plexon has been able to help address investigators' specific research questions. You can submit your own research or view our current spotlights below.

Our research primarily focuses on exploring how basal ganglia outputs interact with other brain regions to select, initiate, and execute motivated...

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I'm studying sex differences and the impact of estrogen fluctuations. I became interested in this area when I learned the potent influence hormones...

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I study how mammalian brains use sensory information dynamically to guide motor behaviors. I use echolocating bats as an animal model to understand how echos...

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Currently, I am investigating the impact of adolescent alcohol exposures on cortical-striatal network dynamics. My graduate school training was in rodent models of alcohol use disorder...

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My research as a behavioral neuroscientist focuses on the neurobiological mechanisms underlying risky decision-making, with an emphasis on how excessive risk-taking causes vulnerability to substance use...

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I study the tactile system, and I’m interested in how cortex interacts with sub-cortical structures to modulate sensory processing. In particular, I investigate.....

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Our lab primarily focuses on how taste information is encoded in multiple brain regions and how this information is used to drive our eating....

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I study visual perception, and how perception then influences behavior. I’ve always been fascinated by the senses, going all the way back to my childhood looking at optical illusions....

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I’m a behavioral neuroscientist, interested in how complex signals in the brain produce behaviors related to reward and aversion....

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I study cognitive processes of the brain and neuropsychiatric diseases with cognitive deficits focusing on prefrontal cortex and dopamine system in rodents. I use electrorheological recording with multi-channel electrodes, micro-endoscope and fiber-photometry...

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As a graduate student I have been looking at how stress (and norepinephrine) affects the neural circuits underlying extinction learning. I first became interested in this specific line of research while taking an undergraduate psychology course...

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As a graduate student, I examine how threat probability is encoded in the brain and what happens to fear expression when this encoding is abnormal or disrupted. I became interested in this line of work because...

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I found social cognition fascinating as it demands contingent and dynamic computations, not only with respect to ourselves but also with respect to other complex individuals. Our primary research goal is to better understand the neural mechanisms underlying social behaviors...

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My lab researches the neurobiological basis of learning and memory. We answer basic questions about how memories are formed and represented at neurophysiological levels in freely-behaving rats and pigs. We focus on the hippocampus, medial prefrontal cortex, the nucleus reuniens of the thalamus...

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I study how visual information is encoded in the brain. I got interested in this type of research because I wanted to understand how connections between neurons give rise to sensory experience...

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I am interested in identifying the brain circuit responsible for sleep and wake. I became interested when I learned as an undergraduate that mice and other mammals have REM sleep, but the circuit that makes us fall asleep is not known...

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