Ayal Lavi

Mice can report optogenetic activation of vagal gut mechanosensory neurons; insular cortex encodes perceptual report and causally affects detection only in a difficult psychophysics task, not simple detection.

The paper shows that insular cortex activity predicts glucose homeostasis by driving anticipatory insulin release and metabolic regulation.

This paper shows that delayed CCR5 expression after memory formation limits the temporal window for linking memories by reducing neuronal overlap in mice.

The paper shows that memory allocation across brain regions is coordinated through a retrograde mechanism, demonstrated by manipulating memory in the basolateral amygdala and observing effects in the insular cortex.

The paper shows that dendritic plasticity in the retrosplenial cortex links memories by allocating spine clusters to the same dendritic segments for temporally close memories.