Pouria Riyahi

Experience dependence of alpha rhythms and neural dynamics in mouse visual cortex

This study investigates how early-life visual deprivation affects neural dynamics in adult mouse visual cortex, finding that different forms of blindness alter specific rhythms and firing patterns without fundamentally changing state-dependent regulation.

Input-independent homeostasis of developing thalamocortical activity

This study shows that the timing of cortical activity development in mice is not controlled by retinal input but is regulated by homeostatic mechanisms in the thalamocortex.