Dario Sarra

Maturation of prefrontal input to dorsal raphe nucleus increases behavioral persistence in mice

This study shows that maturation of prefrontal cortex to dorsal raphe nucleus projections in mice enhances behavioral persistence, as demonstrated by optogenetic stimulation and genetic ablation experiments.

Inference based decisions in a hidden state foraging task: differential contributions of prefrontal cortical areas

This study compares inference-based decision-making in mice and humans using a foraging task, showing humans learn the strategy much faster and identifying orbitofrontal cortex's role in maintaining inference-based decisions.

Activation of serotonin neurons promotes active exploitation in a probabilistic foraging task

This study shows that activating serotonin neurons increases mice's willingness to actively exploit a reward site before giving up in a probabilistic foraging task.