Rodrigo F. Salazar

The paper investigates the role of the claustrum in coordinating inter-areal cortical activity and its impact on memory consolidation and retrieval.

Claustrum neurons provide direct excitatory input to medial prefrontal cortex pyramidal cells, and inhibiting claustrum neuronal assemblies suppresses prefrontal assembly formation and prevents attentional set-shifting.

The paper shows rule-based changes in firing rates and functional connectivity in the frontoparietal network during working memory tasks in macaques.

The paper rescues network dynamics and behaviour in a mouse model of schizophrenia by restoring parvalbumin interneuron excitability.