Hymavathy Balasubramanian

The paper identifies two distinct projection populations in the lateral septum with opposing reward responses and shows their role in reward-seeking behavior.

The paper shows that BLA neurons in mice encode social and food rewards distinctly, with differences in response bias and sensitivity to reward omissions compared to mPFC.

This study maps brainwide inputs to six discrete lateral septum projection populations, revealing unique region-dependent innervation patterns.

The paper identifies sex-dependent, non-overlapping neural representations of social and nonsocial reward in the medial prefrontal cortex that vary with internal state and are essential for reward-seeking behavior.

The paper uses high-density recordings to show retinal axons and midbrain neurons form specific, strong connections with sparse inputs, revealing similar wiring rules in mammals and birds.

This paper introduces WaveMAP, a method using non-linear dimensionality reduction and graph clustering to identify cell types in premotor cortex, revealing new physiological and functional diversity.