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Kentaro Tao

Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of TokyoORCID 0000-0002-8845-6891Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Representation of sex-specific social memory in ventral CA1 neurons

Akiyuki Watarai, Kentaro Tao, Teruhiro Okuyama

The paper identifies how vCA1 neurons in mice encode social identities and properties like sex and strain using rate and theta-based coding, with sex-specific memory reactivation and disruption effects observed.

Science · Jul 3, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Conditional knockout of Shank3 in the ventral CA1 by quantitative in vivo genome-editing impairs social memory

Myung Chung, Katsutoshi Imanaka, Ziyan Huang, Akiyuki Watarai, Mu‐Yun Wang, Kentaro Tao, Hirotaka Ejima, Tomomi Aida, Guoping Feng, Teruhiro Okuyama

This study shows that specific Shank3 knockout in ventral CA1 neurons impairs social memory in mice, revealing a threshold for neuronal disruption required for this impairment.

bioRxiv · Jan 22, 2024 · PreprintNeuroscience

Disrupted social memory ensembles in the ventral hippocampus underlie social amnesia in autism-associated Shank3 mutant mice

Kentaro Tao, Myung Chung, Akiyuki Watarai, Ziyan Huang, Mu‐Yun Wang, Teruhiro Okuyama

This study shows that disrupted social memory ensembles in the ventral hippocampus of Shank3 mutant mice correlate with impaired social behavior, suggesting a role in autism-associated social amnesia.

Molecular Psychiatry · Feb 3, 2022Peer-reviewedNeuroscience