Elijah A. Petter

The paper identifies a locus coeruleus-hippocampal dopamine pathway involved in operant reinforcement by showing D1+ dentate gyrus neurons mediate self-stimulation through optogenetic activation.

This study shows that VTA dopamine neurons bidirectionally control impulse vector and anticipatory behavior during motivated actions.

This study identifies three distinct populations of VTA GABAergic neurons that encode rotational head movements during target pursuit, with their activity disrupted during reward consumption.

This study identifies a thalamo-subthalamic pathway involved in movement initiation and shows that stimulating this pathway can rescue Parkinsonian symptoms in mice.