Neuroscientist at UC Berkeley, studying cortical circuits, coding, plasticity, and autism. www.feldmanlab.org
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Assistant Professor - Computational Neuroscience - Department of NeuroscienceUniversity of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!aprecruit.berkeley.eduNew preprint on sensory cortex dysfunction in Scn2a+/- mouse. Profoundly degraded sensory tuning and maps in S1--most dramatic of any ASD model. And rescued in post-critical period adults with CRISPRa. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Degraded sensory coding in a mouse model of Scn2a-related disorder and its rescue by CRISPRa gene activationHeterozygous loss-of-function mutations in SCN2A , a sodium channel gene expressed in cortical pyramidal (PYR) cells, lead to a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by autism, intellectual disabi...www.biorxiv.orgCongrats to Teresa Puthussery, who is a terrific circuit-systems neuroscientist at Berkeley, on receiving the MacArthur award!
Anna VlasitsSo excited that a retina neurobiology colleague was awarded the MacArthur Genius Award! Congratulations Teresa Puthussery! news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/08/v...
New paper from Deepa Ramamurthy in my lab, just out. Mice flexibly shift attention between different whiskers based on the recent history of whisker stimuli and rewards, during a tactile detection task. We saw a strong neural correlate of this attentional capture in S1 cortex. rdcu.be/euij3
Reward history guides focal attention in whisker somatosensory cortexNature Communications - Mice flexibly shift attention between specific whiskers on a rapid timescale based on recent stimulus reward history in a detection task. Attention is correlated with a...rdcu.beWe study how neural circuits and coding are affected in mouse models of severe genetic forms of autism. New from Han Chin Wang in my lab. The Cntnap2 model of autism has a blurry, unstable whisker map. Adds to growing evidence for degraded neural coding in forms of ASD. #neuroskyence
Degraded tactile coding in the Cntnap2 mouse model of autism - PubMedAtypical sensory processing in autism involves altered neural circuit function and neural coding in sensory cortex, but the nature of coding disruption is poorly understood. We characterized neural co...pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govRecent Curr. Biol. paper by Deepa Ramamurthy in my lab. Asks what behavioral signals are encoded by VIP neurons in whisker S1 during goal-directed behavior (beyond locomotion & arousal). Answer: local whisker signals, licking, and expected value of reward. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37499665/