Pengfei Wei

This paper shows that hierarchical mouse behavior can emerge from localized cortical dynamics without requiring a hierarchically organized brain.

The paper identifies two distinct visual escape behaviors and their neural pathways, revealing how the mediodorsal thalamus modulates arousal and defensive responses to repeated threats.

ADPT is a transformer-based pose tracker that reduces tracking drift in animal behavior analysis, achieving high accuracy across species and conditions.

The paper introduces SBeA, a framework for tracking and mapping 3D social interactions in free-moving animals, showing it can detect subtle behavioral abnormalities in mice, birds, and dogs.

This study uses EEG features to select tACS parameters for improving working memory, finding that 8 Hz prefrontal tACS significantly enhances verbal working memory compared to 40 Hz and sham.

This study develops a method for long-term two-photon imaging of the spinal cord in freely behaving mice, revealing sensorimotor synchronization and plasticity changes in neuropathic pain.

This study shows DISC1-NTM mice have impaired risk avoidance, linked to reduced activity in nucleus accumbens parvalbumin interneurons.

The paper identifies a novel GABAergic projection from the BNST to accumbal parvalbumin neurons that modulates anxiety-related behavior through inhibitory synaptic transmission.

This study identifies VTA GABAergic neurons as critical for visually evoked innate defensive behaviors in mice.