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Alisa Vlasenko
@alisa-vlasenko.bsky.social
The final larval stage of a neuroscientist.
I create hallucinations in mice to (hopefully) restore vision in humans.


Systems neuroscience of learning and visual neuroprosthetics at Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, DE.

Soup-centric🤫
It's not non-mindfulness for sure 😄
February 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Never have I ever thought that I would be feeling bad for the US scientists. Somehow I thought the US science would suffer least from any kind of global crisis and even serve as a safe haven for less fortunate scientists. But here we are 🥲
February 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Oh, the sensory substitution (specifically, the works of Bach-y-Rita and Eagleman) got me into neuroscience in the first place back when I was not even considering a non-clinical career path for myself. I totally see the usefulness of what you’re doing and I think we both have our place ☺️
February 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Those people you are talking about are probably salespeople by nature and have little to do with science (or government efficiency).
February 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
*optogenetic😅
February 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I didn’t mean that in a competitive way, I have seen lots of examples of amazing collaboration in terms of research and combinations in terms of clinical approach, both outlined/planned and already implemented. But the feeling that I don’t really fit was definitely there😅
February 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
csng.mff.cuni.cz/research.html
And this group is,among other amazing things, building a model to predict,to which extent exactly this would be possible if we could really drive activity in specific neurons whose orientation preference we would have known (sorry if I am not making sense,conf fatigue)
CSNG
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csng.mff.cuni.cz
February 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is my loose dumbed down interpretation of this paper. I really don’t think that ontogenetic stim is that different, perceptually, from estim. If anything, I hope it to achieve even greater control over the perceptual nature of the stimulus.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Optoception: Perception of Optogenetic Brain Perturbations
How do animals experience brain manipulations? Optogenetics has allowed us to manipulate selectively and interrogate neural circuits underlying brain function in health and disease. However, little is...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
February 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Cool, gonna check it out!
February 25, 2025 at 6:48 AM
👏 👏 👏

I think I was too late to see you in person, but cool work(or at least I find it very interesting even as an invasive methods person)!
February 25, 2025 at 6:43 AM
It also means changing the PhD theses on the fly cause their time is running out and they still need to finish somehow.I am not saying it's the same everywhere,but in biomed the money and human workforce are far from being used efficiently and it needs mending before advertising Europe 4 scientists
February 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Research in EU is…waiting 1.5 years for your animal license to be approved and thus wasting tens of thousands of € on
- keeping up the colony of animals just sitting around;
- paying the salaries of those involved in the project you’ve planned while they are waiting.
February 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I think it's a very appropriate line to flirt with PhD students struggling with their writing
February 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Hi Onions, I am very happy that you got on that NYU mailing chain. You are very cute!
December 30, 2024 at 2:22 PM
It’s a Japanese pancake with extra puff!☺️
November 29, 2024 at 8:16 AM