The paper presents a full-scale in silico model of rat hippocampal CA1 integrating diverse experimental data and validates it through simulations of theta rhythm and other experiments.

PLoS Biology · Nov 5, 2024Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Thalamic control of sensory enhancement and sleep spindle properties in a biophysical model of thalamoreticular microcircuitry

Elisabetta Iavarone, Jane Simko, Ying Shi, Marine Bertschy, María García‐Amado, Polina Litvak, Anna-Kristin Kaufmann, Christian O’Reilly, Oren Amsalem, Marwan Abdellah, Grigori Chevtchenko, Benoît Coste, Jean-Denis Courcol, András Ecker, Cyrille Favreau, , Sean Hill

The paper develops a computational model of mouse thalamoreticular microcircuitry to study sensory enhancement and sleep spindle properties, revealing mechanisms of network-level activity across brain states.

Cell Reports · Mar 1, 2023Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Distributional coding of associative learning within projection-defined populations of midbrain dopamine neurons

Riccardo Avvisati, Anna-Kristin Kaufmann, Callum J. Young, Gabriella E. Portlock, Sophie Cancemi, Rui Ponte Costa, Peter J. Magill, Paul D. Dodson

The paper investigates how reward information and task variables are encoded in midbrain dopamine neurons projecting to different striatal regions, showing heterogeneous and distributed coding.

bioRxiv · Jul 18, 2022 · PreprintNeuroscience