Dennis Nestvogel
@neuralnestbird.bsky.social
Research Group leader @Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
Systems Neuroscience
Systems Neuroscience
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🧵 New paper out🚨🧠! Information about motion is key to vision. Head motion signals from the vestibular system robustly modulate visual cortex activity. Despite this profound modulation, we still don’t know how these signals reach visual cortex - or even what aspects of head motion are transmitted.
🤯 👁️ Did you know the primary visual cortex tracks head movements even in complete darkness?
Guy Bouvier and colleagues managed to decode multiple head movement variables in V1 without light in the room, and discovered two distinct brain sources delivering these signals!
Read more in PNAS 🔽🔽
Guy Bouvier and colleagues managed to decode multiple head movement variables in V1 without light in the room, and discovered two distinct brain sources delivering these signals!
Read more in PNAS 🔽🔽
www.pnas.org
October 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🧵 New paper out🚨🧠! Information about motion is key to vision. Head motion signals from the vestibular system robustly modulate visual cortex activity. Despite this profound modulation, we still don’t know how these signals reach visual cortex - or even what aspects of head motion are transmitted.
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What defines a brain state? 🧠
If you are also interested in answering this question, join us in "Toward a joint definition of neural-behavioral states", #BernsteinConference full-day workshop, Co-orgnized by @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social and I. (1/4)
If you are also interested in answering this question, join us in "Toward a joint definition of neural-behavioral states", #BernsteinConference full-day workshop, Co-orgnized by @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social and I. (1/4)
September 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
What defines a brain state? 🧠
If you are also interested in answering this question, join us in "Toward a joint definition of neural-behavioral states", #BernsteinConference full-day workshop, Co-orgnized by @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social and I. (1/4)
If you are also interested in answering this question, join us in "Toward a joint definition of neural-behavioral states", #BernsteinConference full-day workshop, Co-orgnized by @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social and I. (1/4)
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Thrilled to share that our work is now published in Science! ✨
We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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September 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Thrilled to share that our work is now published in Science! ✨
We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Huge congratulations to Dirk Görlich, our director at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences & Steven McKnight @ UT Southwestern Medical Center – winners of the 2025 Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research!🎉🫠😊
www.mpg.de/25367852/091... | @laskerfdn.bsky.social
www.mpg.de/25367852/091... | @laskerfdn.bsky.social
Order through disorder
Dirk Görlich and Steven McKnight receive the Lasker Prize for their groundbreaking research on low complexity regions in proteins.
www.mpg.de
September 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Huge congratulations to Dirk Görlich, our director at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences & Steven McKnight @ UT Southwestern Medical Center – winners of the 2025 Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research!🎉🫠😊
www.mpg.de/25367852/091... | @laskerfdn.bsky.social
www.mpg.de/25367852/091... | @laskerfdn.bsky.social
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Want to collaborate with the International Brain Laboratory on your own project? We have funding to work with groups anywhere in the world to do new large-scale projects and we are looking for new partners! Learn more and apply: www.internationalbrainlab.com/ibl-core-apply
September 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Want to collaborate with the International Brain Laboratory on your own project? We have funding to work with groups anywhere in the world to do new large-scale projects and we are looking for new partners! Learn more and apply: www.internationalbrainlab.com/ibl-core-apply
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Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in @Nature.com:
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +
September 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in @Nature.com:
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +
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I often get asked “do you think visuomotor mismatch responses are a mouse thing?” – it looks like at least humans have them as well. very excited by this!
A new preprint from our lab with @zelechowski.bsky.social & @georgkeller.bsky.social !
Using wireless EEG + VR, we recorded visuomotor mismatch responses in freely moving humans.
Huge thanks to all participants, Keller Lab members and FMI facilities!
Read more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Using wireless EEG + VR, we recorded visuomotor mismatch responses in freely moving humans.
Huge thanks to all participants, Keller Lab members and FMI facilities!
Read more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I often get asked “do you think visuomotor mismatch responses are a mouse thing?” – it looks like at least humans have them as well. very excited by this!
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The University of Oregon is searching for an Assistant Professor with a focus on Developmental Neuroscience. We are excited to have you come join us - apply!
Application information can be found at: careers.uoregon.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Application information can be found at: careers.uoregon.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Current Opportunities | UO HR Website
careers.uoregon.edu
August 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The University of Oregon is searching for an Assistant Professor with a focus on Developmental Neuroscience. We are excited to have you come join us - apply!
Application information can be found at: careers.uoregon.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Application information can be found at: careers.uoregon.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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Neues Diskussionspapier: Die @leopoldina.org empfiehlt, Kinder & Jugendliche im Umgang mit sozialen Medien besser zu schützen – u. a. durch ein Mindestalter von 13 Jahren, keine personalisierte Werbung bis 17, Pausen gegen Doom-Scrolling & eine stärkere Förderung der Medienkompetenz.
Detailansicht
Die Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina berät Politik und Gesellschaft unabhängig zu wichtigen Zukunftsthemen.
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August 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Neues Diskussionspapier: Die @leopoldina.org empfiehlt, Kinder & Jugendliche im Umgang mit sozialen Medien besser zu schützen – u. a. durch ein Mindestalter von 13 Jahren, keine personalisierte Werbung bis 17, Pausen gegen Doom-Scrolling & eine stärkere Förderung der Medienkompetenz.
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Very excited about this work and very proud of @xiongbowu.bsky.social who did it all:
Based on 4 independent data sets (incl. EEG/iEEG, eye tracking, gaze manipulation & memory), we advocate for a new perspective on the function of the brain's dominant rhythm 🧠
Check Xiongbo's thread for more 👇
Based on 4 independent data sets (incl. EEG/iEEG, eye tracking, gaze manipulation & memory), we advocate for a new perspective on the function of the brain's dominant rhythm 🧠
Check Xiongbo's thread for more 👇
🚨 New preprint alert!
Excited to share our latest work on alpha/beta activity, eye movements, and memory.
Across 4 experiments combining scalp EEG/iEEG with eye tracking, we show that alpha/beta activity directly reflects eye movements, and only indirectly relates to memory.
👇 Highlights (1/7):
Excited to share our latest work on alpha/beta activity, eye movements, and memory.
Across 4 experiments combining scalp EEG/iEEG with eye tracking, we show that alpha/beta activity directly reflects eye movements, and only indirectly relates to memory.
👇 Highlights (1/7):
Low-frequency brain oscillations reflect the dynamics of the oculomotor system: a new perspective on subsequent memory effects https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.29.667451v1
July 31, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Very excited about this work and very proud of @xiongbowu.bsky.social who did it all:
Based on 4 independent data sets (incl. EEG/iEEG, eye tracking, gaze manipulation & memory), we advocate for a new perspective on the function of the brain's dominant rhythm 🧠
Check Xiongbo's thread for more 👇
Based on 4 independent data sets (incl. EEG/iEEG, eye tracking, gaze manipulation & memory), we advocate for a new perspective on the function of the brain's dominant rhythm 🧠
Check Xiongbo's thread for more 👇
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Fantastic to see this collaborative work with Hopi Hoekstra out in Nature (tinyurl.com/3at3zvby). Lead by @felixbaier.bsky.social and @katjareinhard.bsky.social. Not possible without @bramnuttin.bsky.social , Chen Liu and @arnausd.bsky.social.
Excited to see where this work leads.
Excited to see where this work leads.
July 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Fantastic to see this collaborative work with Hopi Hoekstra out in Nature (tinyurl.com/3at3zvby). Lead by @felixbaier.bsky.social and @katjareinhard.bsky.social. Not possible without @bramnuttin.bsky.social , Chen Liu and @arnausd.bsky.social.
Excited to see where this work leads.
Excited to see where this work leads.
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Seeing the world through the lens of oscillations - we are delighted to share our new paper where we demonstrate that anatomically resolved oscillatory bursts reveal dynamic motifs of thalamocortical activity during naturalistic stimulus viewing (doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...).
July 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Seeing the world through the lens of oscillations - we are delighted to share our new paper where we demonstrate that anatomically resolved oscillatory bursts reveal dynamic motifs of thalamocortical activity during naturalistic stimulus viewing (doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...).
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We’re hiring! Join us @unige_en as a Full/Associate Prof. in Neuroscience (Chair of Excellence). Focus: development, molecular & cellular evolution of brain circuits. Great team, top science, Geneva 🇨🇭
🧠 Apply by Aug 15, 2025 jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
🧠 Apply by Aug 15, 2025 jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
Professeur-e ordinaire, professeur-e associé-e (6454)
Chaire d'excellence - développement, évolution moléculaire et cellulaire des circuits cérébraux // Full Professor or Associate Professor Chair of Excellence Development, Molecular and Cellula...
jobs.unige.ch
July 11, 2025 at 7:45 AM
We’re hiring! Join us @unige_en as a Full/Associate Prof. in Neuroscience (Chair of Excellence). Focus: development, molecular & cellular evolution of brain circuits. Great team, top science, Geneva 🇨🇭
🧠 Apply by Aug 15, 2025 jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
🧠 Apply by Aug 15, 2025 jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
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👨💻 Open PI position in our institute 👨💻 !! If you are an expert in Computational Neuroscience and want to start your lab in Bordeaux, contact us !
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
@neuromagendie.bsky.social
@neurobordeaux.bsky.social
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
@neuromagendie.bsky.social
@neurobordeaux.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
👨💻 Open PI position in our institute 👨💻 !! If you are an expert in Computational Neuroscience and want to start your lab in Bordeaux, contact us !
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
@neuromagendie.bsky.social
@neurobordeaux.bsky.social
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
@neuromagendie.bsky.social
@neurobordeaux.bsky.social
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Now out in @natneuro.nature.com: Temporal control of progenitor competence shapes maturation in GABAergic neuron development in mice. Congrats to first authors @annrosebright.bsky.social, Yana Kotlyarenko, @flo-neuhaus.bsky.social, and thanks to all collaborators!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Temporal control of progenitor competence shapes maturation in GABAergic neuron development in mice - Nature Neuroscience
Unlike cortical progenitors, ventral telencephalic progenitors retain the ability to generate diverse neuron types during neurogenesis. Here, the authors show that ventral telencephalic progenitor mat...
www.nature.com
July 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Now out in @natneuro.nature.com: Temporal control of progenitor competence shapes maturation in GABAergic neuron development in mice. Congrats to first authors @annrosebright.bsky.social, Yana Kotlyarenko, @flo-neuhaus.bsky.social, and thanks to all collaborators!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Your brain doesn’t just passively track time ⏳ - it structures it.
In @Science.org we show that activity in 🧠 memory circuits (LEC) drifts constantly, but makes sharp jumps at key moments, segmenting life into meaningful events. (1/2)
👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In @Science.org we show that activity in 🧠 memory circuits (LEC) drifts constantly, but makes sharp jumps at key moments, segmenting life into meaningful events. (1/2)
👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Event structure sculpts neural population dynamics in the lateral entorhinal cortex
Our experience of the world is a continuous stream of events that must be segmented and organized at multiple timescales. The neural mechanisms underlying this process remain unknown. In this work, we...
www.science.org
June 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Your brain doesn’t just passively track time ⏳ - it structures it.
In @Science.org we show that activity in 🧠 memory circuits (LEC) drifts constantly, but makes sharp jumps at key moments, segmenting life into meaningful events. (1/2)
👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In @Science.org we show that activity in 🧠 memory circuits (LEC) drifts constantly, but makes sharp jumps at key moments, segmenting life into meaningful events. (1/2)
👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Our new paper is out in Science.
We identified a subgroup of cholinergic neurons that mediate sensory modality-specific attention. They change their funcitonal properties within secs of behavioral context change.
Congrats to Bin for the great thesis, and the team!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We identified a subgroup of cholinergic neurons that mediate sensory modality-specific attention. They change their funcitonal properties within secs of behavioral context change.
Congrats to Bin for the great thesis, and the team!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cholinergic feedback for modality- and context-specific modulation of sensory representations
The brain’s ability to prioritize sensory information is crucial for adaptive behavior, yet its mechanisms remain unclear. We investigated basal forebrain cholinergic neurons modulating olfactory bulb...
www.science.org
June 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Our new paper is out in Science.
We identified a subgroup of cholinergic neurons that mediate sensory modality-specific attention. They change their funcitonal properties within secs of behavioral context change.
Congrats to Bin for the great thesis, and the team!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We identified a subgroup of cholinergic neurons that mediate sensory modality-specific attention. They change their funcitonal properties within secs of behavioral context change.
Congrats to Bin for the great thesis, and the team!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Now out in @natcomms.nature.com: Mice and monkeys spontaneously shift through comparable cognitive states - and it's written all over their faces! (1/7)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Inferring internal states across mice and monkeys using facial features - Nature Communications
Here, the authors created a virtual reality task for monkeys and mice to explore if internal states like attention are similar across species. Their facial expressions during the task were similar, su...
www.nature.com
June 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Now out in @natcomms.nature.com: Mice and monkeys spontaneously shift through comparable cognitive states - and it's written all over their faces! (1/7)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A very nice article about our research on the octopus visual system, by @callimcflurry.bsky.social @thetransmitter.bsky.social
The octopus brain has teased researchers since the 1960s, but recording from it seemed impossible. Cris Niell and his team’s calcium imaging experiments finally “showed that this brain could be studied,” says Sam Reiter.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/vision/cepha...
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/vision/cepha...
Cephalopods, vision’s next frontier
For decades, scientists have been teased by the strange but inaccessible cephalopod visual system. Now, thanks to a technological breakthrough from a lab in Oregon, data are finally coming straight…
www.thetransmitter.org
May 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
A very nice article about our research on the octopus visual system, by @callimcflurry.bsky.social @thetransmitter.bsky.social
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65 years after Lettvin’s bug detector neurons in the frog retina, we revisit how the retina drives behavior—from reflexes to prey capture to brain-state modulation
New review with @annaintegrated.bsky.social & @serenariccitelli.bsky.social in Annual Review of Vision Science 👇
tinyurl.com/ymp3vs4d
New review with @annaintegrated.bsky.social & @serenariccitelli.bsky.social in Annual Review of Vision Science 👇
tinyurl.com/ymp3vs4d
May 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
65 years after Lettvin’s bug detector neurons in the frog retina, we revisit how the retina drives behavior—from reflexes to prey capture to brain-state modulation
New review with @annaintegrated.bsky.social & @serenariccitelli.bsky.social in Annual Review of Vision Science 👇
tinyurl.com/ymp3vs4d
New review with @annaintegrated.bsky.social & @serenariccitelli.bsky.social in Annual Review of Vision Science 👇
tinyurl.com/ymp3vs4d
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A team of #LMU neuroscientists led by Laura Busse, Anton Sirota and Lukas Meyerolbersleben have shown that the #brain processes natural visual stimuli through specific oscillating patterns of activity in the visual neocortex. #Neurobiology www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
Neurobiology: Movies “play out” as an oscillatory symphony in the brain
LMU neuroscientists have shown that the brain processes natural visual stimuli with dedicated oscillatory bursts emerging in the visual neocortex.
www.lmu.de
April 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
A team of #LMU neuroscientists led by Laura Busse, Anton Sirota and Lukas Meyerolbersleben have shown that the #brain processes natural visual stimuli through specific oscillating patterns of activity in the visual neocortex. #Neurobiology www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
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Join us for this event, happening tomorrow! 🥳
📅 Event alert: At the end of April, Prof. Dr. Arno Villringer, director at @mpicbs.bsky.social, will share his research on heart-brain interactions ❤️🧠. The talk will take place at our MPI in Munich and is open to everyone!
🔗 All details here: www.psych.mpg.de/seminars
#neuroskyence
🔗 All details here: www.psych.mpg.de/seminars
#neuroskyence
April 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Join us for this event, happening tomorrow! 🥳
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Delighted to see our new collaboration on ecological neuroscience 🧩🌿🧠 announced today! A huge ❤️🙏🏼 to @simonsfoundation.org
I’m so excited by this theory-driven question. It’s core to our research on adaptive intelligence & sensorimotor systems 🙌 #SCENE
www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...
I’m so excited by this theory-driven question. It’s core to our research on adaptive intelligence & sensorimotor systems 🙌 #SCENE
www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...
Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience
The mission of the Simons Collaboration on Ecological NEuroscience (SCENE) is to understand how affordances offered by the world shape representations in the mind and the brain.
www.simonsfoundation.org
April 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Delighted to see our new collaboration on ecological neuroscience 🧩🌿🧠 announced today! A huge ❤️🙏🏼 to @simonsfoundation.org
I’m so excited by this theory-driven question. It’s core to our research on adaptive intelligence & sensorimotor systems 🙌 #SCENE
www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...
I’m so excited by this theory-driven question. It’s core to our research on adaptive intelligence & sensorimotor systems 🙌 #SCENE
www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...
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Excited to share our new study on how respiration modulates neural dynamics during successful memory retrieval—led by @estebanbt.bsky.social, alongside the exceptional team of @fabian31415.bsky.social, @maritpetzka.bsky.social, @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social, and @bstaresina.bsky.social. 👇
Very excited to share the first preprint of my PhD thesis!
Together with @tschreiner.bsky.social, we investigated how respiration coordinates signature neural expressions of successful remembering during memory retrieval. 🫁🧠
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Together with @tschreiner.bsky.social, we investigated how respiration coordinates signature neural expressions of successful remembering during memory retrieval. 🫁🧠
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Respiration shapes the neural dynamics of successful remembering in humans. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.17.649286v1
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Excited to share our new study on how respiration modulates neural dynamics during successful memory retrieval—led by @estebanbt.bsky.social, alongside the exceptional team of @fabian31415.bsky.social, @maritpetzka.bsky.social, @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social, and @bstaresina.bsky.social. 👇
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www.nature.com/articles/s41... Finally out! We used a translational approach to reveal a conserved role of the superior colliculus–ventral tegmental area pathway in social orienting deficits across species. @nadakojovic.bsky.social Alessandro Contestabile and Marie Schaer.
Translational research approach to social orienting deficits in autism: the role of superior colliculus-ventral tegmental pathway - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - Translational research approach to social orienting deficits in autism: the role of superior colliculus-ventral tegmental pathway
www.nature.com
April 5, 2025 at 7:39 AM
www.nature.com/articles/s41... Finally out! We used a translational approach to reveal a conserved role of the superior colliculus–ventral tegmental area pathway in social orienting deficits across species. @nadakojovic.bsky.social Alessandro Contestabile and Marie Schaer.