Janki Patel

Distributed control circuits across a brain-and-cord connectome

The paper presents the first densely reconstructed adult fruit fly connectome integrating the brain and ventral nerve cord, revealing distributed control circuits involving local and long-range neural connections.

Inputs to the locus coeruleus from the periaqueductal gray and rostroventral medulla shape opioid-mediated descending pain modulation

The paper identifies novel synaptic pathways from the periaqueductal gray and rostroventral medulla to the locus coeruleus that drive opioid-mediated antinociception.

Sonogenetic control of mammalian cells using exogenous Transient Receptor Potential A1 channels

This paper demonstrates that expressing human TRPA1 channels in neurons allows ultrasound to control neural activity in the intact mammalian brain.

Convergent, functionally independent signaling by mu and delta opioid receptors in hippocampal parvalbumin interneurons

The paper shows that mu and delta opioid receptors in hippocampal parvalbumin interneurons signal independently despite convergent and redundant pathways.