Iakovos Lazaridis

The paper investigates how dopamine and astrocytic calcium activity coordinate during behavioral breaks in mice, showing dopamine drives astrocytic activity and affects learning.

The paper identifies striosomal pathways that target substantia nigra dopamine neurons, with opposite effects on movement compared to canonical pathways.

The paper demonstrates that the mouse superior colliculus generates center-surround visual computations through local circuits, independent of top-down input.

The paper identifies six glutamatergic neuron types in the LHA-LHb pathway, showing that Esr1+ neurons induce aversion and are involved in stress sensitivity in female mice.

This study identifies Sst+ GPi neurons that provide feedback to basal ganglia nodes and influence behavioral flexibility during learning.

The paper shows that all three major striatal output pathways represent action space and value similarly during motor and decision tasks.