Fan Wang

This study identifies two distance-coding schemes in mouse brainstem neurons during wall-passing behavior: a proximity code and a map code, with the map code providing better population decoding of distance.

The paper examines dopamine dynamics during cocaine and fentanyl self-administration in mice, identifying distinct patterns and developing a computational model to explain compulsive behavior.

The paper develops and benchmarks enhancer-AAVs for selective targeting of midbrain dopaminergic neurons across species, identifying a specific enhancer and optimizing AAV backbones to improve specificity and efficiency.

This study identifies how the cortex encodes body schema through action-specific neural ensembles and reference frames in mice.

The paper identifies a population of neurons in the oval division of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (ovBNST) that are activated by anesthetics and anxiolytics, modulating anxiety-like behaviors and autonomic responses.

This study investigates the role of CeAGA neurons in acute and late-phase neuropathic pain, finding they have distinct effects on pain thresholds and anxiety behaviors.

This study demonstrates that conditioning with activation of a central pain-suppressing circuit can engineer placebo analgesia in mice, showing that context-dependent pain relief can be achieved through learned associations.

CellBoost reduces annotation labor in neuroanatomy by combining human judgment and machine learning, achieving accuracy comparable to human agreement while decreasing time by up to ten-fold.

The paper identifies RAmVOC neurons as critical for vocal pattern generation and vocal-respiratory coupling in mice.

The paper shows that vibrotactile touch reduces facial pain in mice by altering neural activity in the barrel cortex, integrating tactile and noxious signals.

The paper constructs an adult orofacial premotor atlas in mice by tracing premotor circuits and registering them to the Allen Mouse CCF, revealing spatial organization and coordination of motor nuclei.

The paper identifies two forebrain inhibitory neuron populations that trigger or suppress vocalization by modulating PAG-USV neurons through distinct synaptic mechanisms.

The paper shows that recurrent circuitry in piriform cortex stabilizes odor representations despite degraded input, supporting pattern completion in an associative network.

MIN1PIPE is a pipeline for extracting neuronal signals from 1-photon miniscope calcium imaging data, showing superior efficiency and precision in noisy conditions.

The paper identifies a specific subset of midbrain PAG neurons in male mice essential for producing ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) and shows their role in vocal communication.