The neurotransmitter dopamine has long been recognized for its role in regulating mood and motivated behaviors. On the other side of the coin, maladaptive dopamine circuitry has been implicated in... read more →
One major open question in neuroscience is “How is sensory experience encoded by neurons in the brain?” Despite decades of research on this topic, our understanding of sensory encoding is... read more →
Decision making is an internal process that is not time locked to observable sensory inputs or behavioral outputs. This makes the neural processes underlying decision making difficult to investigate. In... read more →
A comprehensive toolkit to advance the study of inhibition on the cellular, circuit, and organismal level The precise excitatory signaling of the nervous system would be impossible without inhibition. Inhibition... read more →
It is possible to eat until your stomach bursts open, but most people will never come close to this horror. Feeling like your stomach might burst, for example after gorging... read more →