Research

The brain is one of the most complicated device we have been fitted with since birth. One of the most spectacular activity that it does is processing enormous amount of sensory information that come through our sensory organs. These experiences somehow get mapped onto the brain forming cognitive maps. We use different behavioural assays, electrophysiological techniques like highthroughput unit recordings and patch clamp recordings both in vitro and in vivo and in silico approaches to understand how different neuronal circuits use sensory information to form such cognitive maps.

Furthermore people suffering from different types of dementia like Alzheimer's Disease tend to have problems of spatial memory and spatial disorientation. We are looking into brain circuits to identify specific changes pertaining to such problems in AD.

We use the sense of smell on different mouse models.