Ivan Linares-García

This study identifies a striatal interneuron circuit that gates reinforcement by linking outcome processing to adaptive action selection through disinhibitory microcircuitry.

The paper investigates how sensory-motor associations are learned in the striatum by analyzing neural activity in mice during different tasks.

This study identifies time-dependent changes in corticostriatal circuits and movement patterns in a chronic pain model, highlighting a critical 3-week transition phase for therapeutic intervention.

This paper introduces an open-source joystick platform for training head-fixed mice in auditory-motor and value-based decision-making tasks, providing rich behavioral and motor data.

This study investigates the role of posterior medial thalamus (POm) in striatal circuitry and choice behavior, finding that POm-striatal projections influence reaction times and learning through arousal-related signals.

This paper develops a method for binge-like ethanol consumption in head-fixed mice and uses two-photon calcium imaging to study its effects on prefrontal cortex neuron activity.

The paper investigates differences in subcellular anatomical distribution of M1 and S1 cortical inputs to SPNs and FSIs in the DLS, finding SPNs receive more M1 inputs and show input clustering.

This study shows that voluntary alcohol consumption disrupts the coupling between prefrontal cortical activity and arousal in mice.