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Sonja Hofer

@sonjahofer.bsky.social

Neuroscientist studying neural circuits underlying perception and behaviour. Professor at the Sainsbury's Wellcome Centre, London

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Thanks so much everyone!

08.03.2025 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mehran collected mindboggling amounts of data and used many behavioural paradigms to get a holistic understanding of the function of median raphe cell types. Mehran will start his own lab in Oxford soon, watch out for this absolute neuroscience star!

05.03.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A subcortical switchboard for perseverative, exploratory and disengaged states - Nature Behavioural experiments in mice demonstrate that GABAergic (Ξ³-aminobutyric acid-expressing), glutamatergic and serotonergic neurons in the median raphe nucleus have distinct and complementary function...

Should you stick to your goal, try something else, or give up? Your median raphe nucleus in the brainstem knows and will decide for you πŸ˜‰. First foray of my lab into foraging, behavioural strategies and exploration. Amazing work from the one and only Mehran Ahmadlou: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

05.03.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 120    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3
Hofer Lab | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre

Hi Michael, sorry for the delay, the article is now available to download on my labs webwite: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/groups/h...

12.02.2025 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks so much, Tim!! 😊

07.02.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Overwriting an instinct: Visual cortex instructs learning to suppress fear responses Fast instinctive responses to environmental stimuli can be crucial for survival but are not always optimal. Animals can adapt their behavior and suppress instinctive reactions, but the neural pathways...

So excited to see this out, heroic effort by the brilliant Sara Mederos, uncovering the detailed brain mechanisms of how animals learn to overcome their instinctive fear responses, from neural circuits & cell types down to synaptic plasticity mechanism! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

07.02.2025 09:24 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
A Neuropixels Opto probe with 3 blue emitters and 3 red emitters lighting up in succession, with corresponding neural activity in different layers of the cortex.

A Neuropixels Opto probe with 3 blue emitters and 3 red emitters lighting up in succession, with corresponding neural activity in different layers of the cortex.

Neuropixels and Optogenetics are delighted to announce the birth of

Neuropixels Opto

Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics

Today in bioRxiv

960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors

By Lakunina, @karolinazsocha.bsky.social, Ladd, et al

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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07.02.2025 09:18 β€” πŸ‘ 324    πŸ” 115    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 12

Hi Guido, could you please add me? Thanks!!

04.12.2024 12:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Could you please add me too? Thanks a lot!!

02.12.2024 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi Mark, thanks for the list, could you also add me? Thanks!!

02.12.2024 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi Christos, could you please add me too? Thanks a lot!!

30.11.2024 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Recurrent inter-areal connections implement line-attractors that promote consensus-building and consistency in visual representations across cortical areas.

28.11.2024 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dynamic consensus-building between neocortical areas via long-range connections The neocortex is organized into functionally specialized areas. While the functions and underlying neural circuitry of individual neocortical areas are well studied, it is unclear how these regions op...

Cool study led by Mitra Javadzadeh and
Marine Schimel on the function of inter-areal communication in the neocortex, using data from my lab and biologically-constrained latent circuit modelling with Guillaume Hennequin and Yasha Ahmadian #neurosky #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

28.11.2024 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi, I'm new to Bluesky fleeing from X. How can I find the neuroscience crowd?

25.11.2024 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

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