Taddeo Salemi

Functional imaging of nine distinct neuronal populations under a miniscope in freely behaving animals

The paper introduces Neuroplex, a method combining miniscope Ca2+ recordings with spectral imaging to identify nine neuronal subtypes in freely behaving animals.

Excitatory and inhibitory neurons in the dorsal periaqueductal gray encode decisions to assess and escape natural threats

The paper identifies glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons in the dPAG that encode both threat assessment and escape behaviors across different threat types.

A neural circuit for competing approach andavoidance underlying prey capture

The paper identifies a neural circuit in mice that balances approach and avoidance behaviors during prey capture by linking lateral hypothalamus GABAergic neurons to periaqueductal grey neurons.