Zahra Z. Farahbakhsh

The paper examines how chronic alcohol drinking affects the relationship between gene expression and dopamine regulation in the brain, finding persistent functional changes despite no change in transcript levels.

This study uses a fluorescent dopamine sensor to show that medial prefrontal cortex dopamine dynamics reflect selective attention, responding to both appetitive and aversive stimuli and preceding behavioral engagement.

The paper examines microcircuit activity in macaque dlPFC using calcium imaging, showing that spontaneous activity is maintained by microcircuit architecture and correlates with cognitive performance.