Dr. Brockett recently published a new study showing that healthy aging differentially impacts cognitive ability in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. Older rats displayed greater impulsivity, but retained optimal reward-guided decision-making. Read more about the study here.
Dylan did a great job presenting our poster on how submedius thalamus lesions impacts goal-directed decision making and cognitive flexibility.
The Brain and Experience Lab has just opened, and welcomed our first member, Dylan Sarubin! Dylan recently graduated from the University of Maryland and has joined the lab as a Research Associate. Welcome, Dylan!!
Dr. Brockett and Dr. Nik Francis recently showed that a single dose of psilocybin, a precursor to the psychoactive ingredient found in psilocybe mushrooms, enhances brain wide connectivity while preserving pure-tone selectivity. The work was published in the Journal of Neurophysiology.
Dr. Brockett and colleagues recently published a new paper in eNeuro using optogenetics to disrupt stop-change task performance. We show that silencing the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) reduces accuracy on difficult trials that require higher levels of inhibitory control. Silencing of the OFC also speeds response times on error trials, suggesting a role for the OFC…
