Our research explores how we learn from our mistakes—a fundamental building block of intelligent behavior. As infants learning to walk, we take unsteady steps, fall, adjust, and eventually develop stable locomotion. This iterative cycle of action, error...
Dr. Camprodon is interested in understanding circuit properties of human neural networks and how maladaptive plastic changes lead to neuropsychiatric disorders. The scope of his research includes basic, translational and clinical projects focused on...
As we age, our brains lose neurons, which cannot be replenished. When neuronal loss reaches above certain threshold, people develop devastating symptoms, such as dementia for Alzheimer's and movement disability for Parkinson's. There is no disease...
Our laboratory is directed toward both 1) understanding molecular controls and mechanisms over neuron sub-type development, diversity, axon guidance-circuit formation, and degeneration-disease in the cerebral cortex (e.g. corticospinal motor neurons -...
Our goal is to understand the role of neural-immune interactions in pain, host defense, and immunity. It is increasingly clear that microbes and immune cells release mediators that impact the health and function of the nervous system. Neurons also...