Andreea C. Bostan

The paper investigates how incentive valence engages different basal ganglia circuits during movement initiation, finding distinct neural patterns for reward and threat conditions.

The paper builds a multimodal atlas of medium spiny neurons in the primate striatum, identifying new subtypes and linking them to disease associations.

This study examines how parkinsonism affects movement-related activity in the GPi of macaques, finding altered timing and magnitude of neuronal responses.

The paper identifies cell type-specific enhancers for the DLPFC in NHPs using single nucleus RNA-Seq and ATAC-Seq, validates them with AAV injections, and demonstrates functional expression in specific neuron types.

The paper identifies a functional open loop circuit (OLC) in humans connecting ventral putamen to motor cortical areas via subcortical limbic nodes using high-resolution fMRI.

The paper dissociates the functional roles of a novel open-loop circuit and a traditional closed-loop circuit in the human brain during incentive-based motor tasks.

The paper introduces an open-source, 3D-printable MRI-compatible stereotaxic frame for nonhuman primates, enabling accurate multimodal presurgical mapping and deep-brain interventions.