Jessica Passlack

The paper challenges the idea that the nucleus reuniens acts as a relay between prefrontal cortex and hippocampus, showing instead that it contains distinct circuits with separate projections.

The paper shows that combining environmental features and behavioural outcomes in models of the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus enables contextual inference and flexible behaviour.

This study identifies parallel excitatory and inhibitory pathways from the basal amygdala to the ventral hippocampus in mice, showing how BA inhibition gates place-value associations through specific connectivity.

The paper shows pure grid cells encode head direction through distinct mechanisms, with firing fields tuned to multiple head directions.