The Orange Cat Brain Atlas is here. 🧠🐈 Today, we published the first comprehensive cellular map of the orange cat brain. The new atlas reveals a single, specialized neuron responsible for behaviors like staring at walls, knocking objects off tables, and the 3am "zoomies."

Leftmost goal isn't actually facing the camera

Great for MOCAP making it to last Saturday's NYT Crossword

Our latest work is now a version-of-record article (rather than a reviewed preprint) at @elife.bsky.social : elifesciences.org/articles/90780 with co-authors Kahori Kita, Scott Albert, Bob Scheidt, @rezashadmehr.bsky.social, and John Krakauer.

Separating the control of moving and holding in human post-stroke arm paresis

Patients with stroke often show impairment in both moving and holding the arm, deficits that are dissociable experimentally, suggesting that moving and holding are controlled by separate neural mechan...

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Random thoughts while going through paper proofs - how long until the terms "clockwise" and "counterclockwise" stop making intuitive sense? As traditional clocks become less common/relevant

The frequency of review requests seems to follow the "when it rains, it pours" rule

For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)

Non-science post: if you are among the trivia aficionados in LearnedLeague, check out today's round on Ancient Roman cuisine that my friend Max and I put together!

Recently published work found that reinforcement motor learning was impaired in individuals within 3 months after #stroke. The findings are important for optimizing #neurorehabilitation after stroke as some #rehabilitation approaches rely on reinforcement. 🧠📈 🧪 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Reinforcement Learning is Impaired in the Sub-acute Post-stroke Period - Meret Branscheidt, Alkis M. Hadjiosif, Manuel A. Anaya, Jennifer Keller, Mario Widmer, Keith D. Runnalls, Andreas R. Luft, Amy ...

Background: In humans, most spontaneous recovery from motor impairment after stroke occurs in the first 3 months. Studies in animal models show higher responsiv...

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I am also honored to receive a Career Development Award from the @americanheart.bsky.social to push this work forward. I want to thank both the AHA and my faculty mentors in this award: David Lin at MGH, Conor Walsh at Harvard SEAS, and Monica Perez at Shirley Ryan.

Excited to share my recent appointment as Instructor at MGH/HMS! I will continue and expand my work dissecting the neural mechanisms behind the different components of post-stroke motor impairment. The goal/hope is that better mechanistic understanding will reveal new targets for rehabilitation.

Our latest paper with Maurice Smith and team is now out: Tiny visual latencies can profoundly impair implicit sensorimotor learning, in Scientific Reports rdcu.be/eldlh. A brief summary: 1/n

Tiny visual latencies can profoundly impair implicit sensorimotor learning

Scientific Reports - Tiny visual latencies can profoundly impair implicit sensorimotor learning

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Hello, world! I'm happy to join the neuro community here at bluesky. I look forward to engaging discussions.