The Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute

Roozbeh Kiani, M.D., Ph.D.Professor of Neural Science and Psychology New York University Flexible decision-making: policies and rules I will explore two core principles of circuit models for perceptual decisions. In these models, neural ensembles that encode actions compete to form decisions. Consequently, representation and readout of the decision variables (DVs) in these models are implemented […]

Jeanne Paz, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Neurology UCSF Weill Institute for NeurosciencesUniversity of California, San Francisco Deconstructing GABAergic circuits in the thalamus and their role in regulating thalamocortical function The reticular thalamic nucleus (nRT) is involved in perception, sensation, attention, consciousness and in generation of sleep spindle oscillations in thalamocortical networks. The nRT provides the GABAergic inhibitory […]