Our lab studies how sensory cues become linked to adaptive or maladaptive responses through learning. Adaptive responses are necessary to develop, survive and thrive; maladaptive responses contribute to disorders across the lifespan. We study this...
My lab focuses on developing theories of neural representations to understand neural coding and the relationship between neural geometry and computation in biological and artificial neural networks. This involves creating theories, methods, and models...
We are broadly interested in molecular programs that shape cognition and behavior. Our current work centers on circulating factors (i.e. hormones)— produced by peripheral organs, influenced by environment and somatic state, and readily measured in human...
Our lab studies the molecular and cellular basis of novel organismic physiology and behavior. We emphasize curiosity-driven science and exploration, using comparative approaches featuring a range of unusual and specialized organisms that are uniquely...
We are a computational neuroscience lab where we bring together the fields of brain research and artificial intelligence/machine learning to figure out how the brain works. We use mathematical and computational models based on data collected from...
Dr. Cash's research focuses on understanding the mechanisms underlying both normal and pathological cortical activity and developing novel neuroprosthetic (brain computer interfaces) approaches for treating a wide variety of neurological problems. This...
The brain allows animals to successfully interact with a natural world that is rich with opportunity and rife with danger. These interactions are mediated by sensation and movement, which are used by animals to learn about their environment and to make...
Re-engineering memory circuits to restore cognition in brain disorders
Adaptively responding to the environment is critical to optimal navigation of our world. The hippocampus plays a critical role in this process by generating memories of our...
We seek to understand the mechanisms by which heterogenous cell types orchestrate synchronous network patterns for brain computations as fundamental as memory, which may be key to understanding the origins of pathological hypersynchrony in epilepsy...
Our research seeks to understand how protein synthesis at the synapse is used to facilitate experience-dependent changes in brain function. Advances in technology have led to an increasingly complex picture of the RNA landscape of the neuron. Specific...