Marziyeh Belal

The paper identifies the SuM[->]LPO pathway as a circuit that modulates dopamine release and active behavior through interactions with mesolimbic dopamine signaling.

This study investigates how Parkinson's disease disrupts cholinergic interneuron control of GABAergic circuits in the striatum, showing reduced nicotinic AChR expression in interneurons in disease models.

The paper investigates how GABAergic inputs modulate striatal spiny projection neuron excitability, showing that GABAARs can depolarize neurons in the resting down-state, enhancing responses to glutamatergic inputs.