Brett D. Mensh

The paper identifies a neuron-glia circuit in zebrafish that anticipates hypoxia by integrating behavioral intent and physiological state to prevent internal oxygen depletion.

This study identifies spinal oxytocin circuits as a conserved mechanism through which affiliative touch reduces pain and enhances well-being in mice and humans.

The paper develops WARP, a platform integrating neuronal activity and gene expression data in zebrafish brains, revealing functional roles of molecularly defined cell populations and their activity correlations.

The paper introduces WHOLISTIC, a method to image cellular activity across all organs of a vertebrate, revealing body-wide circuits and responses to stimuli.

The paper develops a task and models to show that motor cortex and striatum jointly specify movement parameters during a reach-to-pull action in mice.

This paper introduces GLUE, a framework linking neural activity geometry to computational efficiency, showing task-relevant representations untangle across various domains.

This study identifies two subpopulations of hippocampal neurons that encode distance or time through distinct coding mechanisms, revealing roles for SST and PV interneurons in integration and reset processes.

The paper develops a method to rapidly reconstruct neural circuits with single synapse resolution using tissue expansion and lattice light sheet microscopy, validated in Drosophila.

The paper identifies fold-switching proteins by analyzing secondary structure propensities in the NusG family, finding 25% of sequences undergo α-helix ↔ β-sheet transitions.

The paper identifies a brainstem circuit in larval zebrafish that integrates optic flow to maintain positional homeostasis by modulating cerebellar activity.

The paper identifies layer-specific outcome signals in mouse motor cortex that support reinforcement learning of skilled movements.

The paper introduces a new genetically encoded voltage indicator, Voltron, which improves brightness and photostability for extended in vivo voltage imaging in mice, zebrafish, and fruit flies.

The paper introduces a formal statistical framework for connectal coding to link cognitive phenotypes to individual histories across different experimental modalities and phylogeny.