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Laboratory Overview
Coordinated behaviors are composed of sequential or parallel processes (cognitive, sensory, associative, etc.) that often lead to motor output. The basal ganglia (BG), a collection of several deep brain nuclei, is thought to interact extensively with multiple motor structures (as examples, the cortex and thalamus) during these processes.
The global objective of our laboratory is to elucidate how neurons in each of the BG nuclei participate within a neural network to mediate different aspects of behavior. Our laboratory is actively pursuing questions related to the functional organization of the basal ganglia through two primary projects.
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