Sthitapranjya Pati

This study shows that postnatal chemogenetic activation of forebrain excitatory neurons leads to anxiety-like behaviors and altered glial function and metabolism in adult mice.

This study identifies a movement-based dopamine signal in mice that acts as a value-free teaching signal for learning sound-action associations, working alongside reward prediction error.

This study shows that chemogenetic activation of adult hippocampal progenitors increases neurogenesis and affects anxiety-like behavior and fear extinction learning in mice.

This study shows that chemogenetic activation of PV-positive interneurons during postnatal life reduces anxiety and despair-like behaviors in adulthood, with sex-dependent effects.

This study shows that chronic chemogenetic activation of forebrain excitatory neurons during postnatal life leads to long-lasting mood-related behavioral and neurophysiological changes.

The paper investigates how different doses of CNO affect excitatory neurotransmission in the hippocampus using hM3Dq DREADD activation in mice.