Mark A Nicholas
@Markolas11
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PhD candidate in Neuroscience in the @YttriLab at @CMU_Bio, retired footballer, maker of good food
Joined June 2020
Excited the bulk of my PhD work is now out in @NeuroCellPress .If you're interested in how motor cortex and striatum work together for behavior take a look at the tweet print or here . #neurotwitter #phdlife #neuroscience @CMU_Bio.
1/5 NEW in NEURON! We asked what forelimb M1 contributes to striatal and behavioral dynamics. Short answer: almost everything*. @Markolas11 trained mice to perform a joystick reaching task, w/ and w/out a go cue, then lesioned CFA @cmuneurosci @CmuScience
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Thank you so much to @BirnbaumJackie1 and @MunibHasnain for presenting their recent paper today at @CMU_Bio @cmuneurosci . Exciting approach to understand how to explain neural data and movement .
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Nature Neuroscience - Using a novel method for isolating cognitive and motor neural dynamics, the authors show that dynamics often attributed to cognitive processes were corrupted by movements and...
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RT @SfNJournals: #JNeurosci: @andrewpapale1, @hooks_mac, et al. mapped out connections between neurons in mice that form the cellular basi….
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RT @LauraGrimaNeuro: The first preprint of my postdoc with @jtdudman .is now online! Here we wanted to understand the algorithms mice use w….
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RT @YttriLab: Pls RT!! Do you study the brain and how we can make use of its signals? Come join our exciting faculty at CMU and @cmuneurosc….
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RT @VincentCostaPhd: 26 years after Larry Swanson emphasized “the amygdala is neither a structural or functional unit” we used sn-RNAseq to….
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RT @ShinnCunningham: Neuro + Robotics at @cmuneurosci! .Who wants to come join our amazing community at CMU? . @SCSatCMU @CMUEngineering @C….
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Hey if you are still around #Sfn24 this afternoon and interested in cell type-specific cortex and striatum concurrent recordings during trial and error learning, come check out our work. @YttriLab @SfNtweets #sfn2024
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RT @hua_ibrain: I am glad to share our @BrunoAverbeck @rbartolo_phd recent work published in @NeuroCellPress. We examined the neural mecha….
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RT @aaronbatista: When you fail to perform at your best right when it matters the most, what's going on in your brain? We can now provide a….
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RT @asmoulder3195: After some lovely updates thanks to reviewer/editor feedback, this work is now published in Neuron!. .
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Why do we “choke under pressure,” underperforming when we want to succeed the most? Smoulder et al. identify a neural basis of this paradoxical phenomenon in the motor cortex, where greater rewards...
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RT @MIcheleABasso1: Hello all! Please give this a read - and amplify! #SimCo2024 #ThankAMonkey #EndSufferingThruScience..
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COVID-19 and polio vaccines, HIV/AIDS treatments, blood transfusions, and organ transplantation are just a few of the medical advances made possible by research involving nonhuman primates, specifi...
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RT @CmuScience: Researchers in @YttriLab discovered how the motor cortex and striatum work together to create movement. .
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RT @BahugunaJyotika: *New preprint* - We (Tim Verstynen, Jonathan Rubin and I) show how cortico-basalganglia-thalamic networks can maximize….
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All mammals exhibit flexible decision policies that depend, at least in part, on the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic (CBGT) pathways. Yet understanding how the complex connectivity, dynamics, and...
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Yes there was a time in lab where I did have to care for slime molds. .
When you ask your boss @YttriLab to come on your podcast to discuss neurobehavior, and all he wants to talk about are octopuses and slime molds. Kidding. Mostly. Eric and I chat about how brains do behaviors and why that's not a simple question.
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RT @YttriLab: 1/5 NATURE METHODS TWEETPRINT! Do you have a specific, nuanced, or rare set of behaviors you want to extract from video/pose….
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Nature Methods - A-SOiD is a computational platform for behavioral annotation whose training includes elements of supervised and unsupervised learning. The approach is demonstrated on mouse,...
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Hey if you are at #SfN2023 and interested in multi area cell type specific electrophysiology during trial and error learning come check out my poster. @YttriLab @SfNtweets
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RT @MichelleObama: I wanted to share some of my thoughts on today's Supreme Court decision on affirmative action:
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RT @CmuScience: .@CMU_Bio alumna Shalini Ray is among the first recent graduate Carnegie Mellon trustees. https://t….
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