Paper forthcoming. Thankfully, I’ve managed to keep him in my lab as a Research Scientist at the Nathan Kline Institute and NYU.

and designed beautiful intuitive figures. For his final project, Connor wasn't afraid to dig into a well-worn topic in neuropsychiatry — how and why NMDA-receptor antagonists exert such powerful yet nuanced effects on brain dynamics, perception, and cognition— and he was able to glean new insights!

In his time as a graduate student, Connor excelled at every aspect of research. He set up complex equipment, conducted extremely high quality recordings, analysed data in thoughtful and creative ways, applied rigorous statistics, wrote engaging introductions and balanced discussions, ...

... especially if a sensory cortical region is better understood and more analogous across species. And visual cortex is having a moment lately! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38548877/

Combined with that recent paper on cell-wise expression of SZ GWAS hits ( doi.org/10.1038/s415... ), this is telling me that translational studies of basic disease mechanisms in schizophrenia need not be limited to -- or even focused on -- prefrontal cortex....

Stimulus features and stimulus context are distinctly represented across populations in both primary and higher order auditory areas.

Through computational modeling, we demonstrate that context and stimulus history may be encoded in ongoing activity in recurrent networks.

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Wow! Really important connection! Well done silvia and @haberlmatt.bsky.social and team!