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Denis Paré

Principal Investigator

Dr. Denis Paré, Distinguished Professor, Director, Center for Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience


Mohammad M. Herzallah

Research Associate

Research project: Regulation of the amygdala by the midline thalamus Founder and director, Palestinian Neuroscience Initiative at Al-Quds University in Palestine


Alon Amir

Research Associate

Research projects: 1. Contextual visual discrimination task in rodents 2. Closed-loop optogenetic control of gamma oscillations and emotional learning


Mohamed Badawy

Doctoral Candidate

Research project: Neural coding dynamics across subjects, tasks, and species Neural coding through oscillations. Unit entrainment to oscillations in related brain networks in rats. Unit entrainment to oscillations in related


Osmalyn Urena

Research Assistant

Research project: Axonal collateralization of basolateral amygdala neurons


Ashriya Karki

Research Assistant

Research project: Reward-guided & value-based decision making


Daniel Mercado

Research Assistant

Research project: Differential output connectivity and coordinated activity of projection‑defined BLA neurons targeting distinct downstream sites.


Zeynep Sen

Alumni - Rotational Doctoral Student

Research project: Connectivity and functional properties of engram neurons in the basolateral amygdala


Luisa Fernanda Gomez-Alatorre

Alumni - Doctoral Candidate

Research project: Signaling of salience and prediction errors by the anterior insula


Shumsuzzaman Khan

Alumni - Postdoctoral Researcher

Research project: Differential output connectivity and activity coordination within the functional architecture of the BLA