Benay Baskurt

Delighted to announce that our work (@MaryamnB & @KevinAllenLab), where we developed a behavioral task for mice to characterize spatially selective cells during path integration, has been published on @NatureComms ! 🥳🎊 Check it out! nature.com/articles/s4146…

🤗✨ I teamed up with Markus @CYHSM and Alexander @TrackingPlumes to write about a great #NeuroAI piece ⬇️ @CurrentBiology authors.elsevier.com/a/1gkk63QW8S2P… #AlexMakesAGridCellComback ?!

We are already looking forward to the 6th International BonnBrain Conference organized by @DZNE_en, @UniBonn, and us. Safe the date and check out the fantastic program bonnbrain.de.

Our December issue is now live! nature.com/neuro/volumes/…

Strong DA transients in tail of striatum during first interaction w/ unknown object predict avoidance, while 6OHDA ablation boots confidence. Another elegant, thought-provoking paper by @naoshigeuchida How do individual diff. arise, what downstram mech? doi.org/10.1016/j.neur…

🔥 My PhD work is finally published! @CellReports We showed how running improves neuronal code quality and affects its stability in mice. Here’s a short thread on what we found (and how we studied it) >> cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Ever wondered how animals sleep? Sleep experts Niels Rattenborg and Gianina Ungurean have published a great summary about the evolution and diversification of sleep in the animal kingdom. Read the review here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1g6OqcZ3WuSvZ @Trends_Ecol_Evo Art @mulesome

Rats ain't into ballads. They move their heads to the beat of 120-140 BPM music: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Reciprocal cortico-amygdala connections regulate prosocial and selfish choices in mice New from @DiegoScheggia @LabPapaleo @MonicadilucaL and colleagues nature.com/articles/s4159…

Great to see the results of our @HHMIJanelia visitor project out today. Our resource mapping central amygdala gene expression onto individual projection pathways using scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics with multiplex retrograde tracing is now available at bioRxiv. 👇

New issue is out cell.com/neuron/home The cover is by Glossop & Xingyi Huang, illustrating the relief & pleasant feelings associated with body-focused repetitive behaviors. Read about the underlying neural circuits in Ju Huang's lab paper bit.ly/3EPEXvb 1/2

#tweetprint: How does motivation affect performance and sensory processing during goal-directed behavior? Check out our new @NeuroCellPress paper with @giulio_matt and @GtnMaelle, in collaboration with @EPFL_Petersen where we address this issue cell.com/neuron/fulltex… 🧵👇(1/5)

Loss of GABA co-transmission from cholinergic neurons impairs behaviors related to hippocampal, striatal, and medial prefrontal ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

All you need to know about in vivo 2-photon calcium imaging! Amazing work from @CGrienberger & colleagues @uncneuro @UCLA 👏👏: nature.com/articles/s4358…

PFC and hippocampus play complementary roles in knowledge generalization: PFC abstracts the common structure among related problems; hippocampus maps this structure onto the current situation New from @nikasamborska @behrenstimb @WaltonLabNeuro et al. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Happy to share the manuscript from my PhD. We developed a new paradigm to study spatially selective cells in mice during homing behaviour based on path integration. Checkout @KevinAllenLab recent tweets for more details.

Happy to be a part of this work, where we developed a behavioural task for mice to characterize spatially selective cells during path integration. We show how neurons with object-anchored firing fields contribute to navigation. Check it out! @MaryamnB @KevinAllenLab

3 👌 posters in the #FENS2022 AM poster session 👀: ✨ S01-014 @benaybaskurt on cholinergic auditory thalamus regulation in learning ✨ S01-023 James Taylor on threat prediction in the auditory thalamus ✨ S01-355 Yuki Sakai on linking temporally proximal memories

Looking for a way to make sense of your pose estimation data? VAME is a nice #opensource package for estimating behavioral motifs. VAME was developed by Kevin Luxem (@kvnlxm) and colleagues and works with pose data from @DeepLabCut. Check it out: edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/p…

Reprogramming behaviour during slow-wave sleep (without disrupting sleep!): #undfig1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sciencedirect.com/science/articl…