Come see me at my Special Lecture on cortical circuits for learned movements, Monday morning at 10:30AM. #Sfn2025

Will you be at #SfN25? Don’t miss these lectures: 📍Sun 11/16 3pm: The Neural Code of Speech (Edward Chang, KIFN) 📍Mon 11/17 10:30am: Motor Cortex Circuits for Learned Movements (Takaki Komiyama, KIBM) 📍Tue 11/18 5:30pm: Neuronal Aging & Cognitive Decline (Rusty Gage, KIBM) #KavliNeuro

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A new @nature.com study from Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain investigator @takakikomiyama.bsky.social finds that as mice learn a complex movement, the pathway from the motor thalamus to the motor cortex rewires itself to drive the movement: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/08/11/h... #science

Our new paper is out in Science. We identified a subgroup of cholinergic neurons that mediate sensory modality-specific attention. They change their funcitonal properties within secs of behavioral context change. Congrats to Bin for the great thesis, and the team! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In June 2001, I arrived in SFO with a suitcase, a student visa, and disproportionate dreams. My life since has been nothing but a dream. My heart is with the international students in the US today.

Our paper is out in Nature. By examining various inputs to the motor cortex during learning, we found that thalamic inputs learn to activate the cortical neurons encoding the movement being learned. Tour de force by Assaf in collab with Felix and Marcus. Congrats! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A very thoughtful Perspective on our recent paper by Ayelén Groisman and Johannes Letzkus. Thank you! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our new paper is out in Science. What is the synaptic plasticity rule in the brain, we asked. It turns out there are multiple, even within individual neurons. Congrats Jake! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How do different cortical neuron types contribute to circuit dysfunction in #Huntington’s disease? Check out our new collaborative study with @takakikomiyama.bsky.social, spearheaded by Sonja Blumenstock, now out as a preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new paper shows that targeted stimulation of a subtype of cortical inhibitory neurons can ameliorate motor deficits in Huntington’s disease mice. A great collab with @irinadudanova.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

663 days since the senseless tragedy that took An, we present a manuscript that reports some of the discoveries that she left us. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

IMO one of the most exciting studies I’ve seen recently. Trial-level unmasking of memory-specific functional connectivity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our new paper out in Science Advances. A population code in the retrosplenial cortex explains the discrepancy between animal behavior and standard RL models. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our new paper out in @NatureNeuro. We uncovered the roles of orbitofrontal cortex in distinct aspects of meta-reinforcement learning. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Our recent collab paper. Reanalysis of our previous data from a functional connectome perspective identified hub neurons that remain the center of functional reorganization during learning. Congrats Saber, Rudi et al.! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to be speaking at this SfN satellite meeting on Saturday evening mbns.bruker.com/acton/fs/blo...

Wrote a little intro to the BICCN package that just dropped: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Our recent collab paper-- an attempt at spike estimation from calcium imaging data with temporal superresolution (i.e. faster than the frame rate), congrats to Pulak and Piya: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...

Please smack me if I become a billionaire and start acting like Elon Musk.