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Osman Akan

Ruhr University BochumORCID 0000-0002-2865-065XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Organism:human· 1 Assay:imaging· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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The relationship between cortisol, grid-like representations and path integration

Osman Akan, Varnan Chandreswaran, Anne Bierbrauer, Henry David Soldan, Nikolai Axmacher, Oliver Tobias Wolf, Christian Josef Merz

This study shows cortisol impairs path integration by disrupting grid-like representations in the entorhinal cortex, affecting navigational performance.

PLoS Biology · Mar 12, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience