Department(s): Department of Neuronal Cell Biology (Center for Brain Research)
Position: Research Assistant
Location: Spitalgasse 4
Telephone: 40160-34124
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Research Area:
Neurosciences
Research Interests:
Psychiatry, Optogenetics, Neocortex, Electrophysiology, Association Learning, Afferent Pathways, Affect
Abstract:
I am interested in how our brain extracts meaning from the vast amount of sensory information in our environment. Sensing signals from the body,called interoception, isa deeply rootedsensory modality of the self. As such, it mayserve as aninternal reference for our brain to contextualize experiences coming in fromourexteroceptive sensesand determines how we feel about things.In my research, Iwant explorethe mechanisms that build such affective models and how they are used for meaningful adaptive behaviors. In a biomedical context, I would like to understand whether disturbance in these mechanisms may contribute to psychiatric disorders.
Techniques:
Chemogenetics, Optogenetics, In vivoelectrophysiology, Behavioral Phenotyping, Molecular biology
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