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Valeria Mussetto

European Molecular Biology LaboratoryORCID 0000-0003-4272-1474Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Animal Behavior & Cognition· 1 Neuroscience· 1

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Research Focus:differential expression· 2 Organism:mouse· 2 Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Assay:electronic health records· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1

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Cornelius T Gross· 1 shared Cornelius Thilo GrossiD· 1 shared Hridai S Khurana· 1 shared Irene P. Ayuso-JimenoiD· 1 shared Leiron FerrareseiD· 1 shared Rory John BufacchiiD· 1 shared Sofia TorchiaiD· 1 shared Taddeo SalemiiD· 1 shared

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Animal Behavior & CognitionFrontiers in Neural CircuitsPeer-reviewedJun 12, 2026

Fleeing is Believing: Adaptive behavior under social threat as an inference process

Hridai S Khurana, Valeria Mussetto, Leiron Ferrarese…·Rory John Bufacchi

This paper models social defeat in mice as a POMDP to understand how adverse social experiences reshape decision-making and predict behavioral outcomes.

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mousedeep learning

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NeurosciencebioRxivPreprintFeb 17, 2026

Excitatory and inhibitory neurons in the dorsal periaqueductal gray encode decisions to assess and escape natural threats

Irene P. Ayuso-Jimeno, Sofia Torchia, Valeria Mussetto…·Cornelius Thilo Gross

The paper identifies glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons in the dPAG that encode both threat assessment and escape behaviors across different threat types.

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mouseelectronic health records

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