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Microstructural and neurochemical plasticity mechanisms interact to enhance human perceptual decision-making by Ziminski, Joseph J, Frangou, Polytimi, Karlaftis, Vasilis M, Emir, Uzay, Kourtzi, Zoe

“…Experience and training are known to boost our skills and mold the brain's organization and function. Yet, structural plasticity and functional…”
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The Emergence of a Stable Neuronal Ensemble from a Wider Pool of Activated Neurons in the Dorsal Medial Prefrontal Cortex during Appetitive Learning in Mice by Brebner, Leonie S, Ziminski, Joseph J, Margetts-Smith, Gabriella, Sieburg, Meike C, Reeve, Hayley M, Nowotny, Thomas, Hirrlinger, Johannes, Heintz, Tristan G, Lagnado, Leon, Kato, Shigeki, Kobayashi, Kazuto, Ramsey, Leslie A, Hall, Catherine N, Crombag, Hans S, Koya, Eisuke

“…Animals selectively respond to environmental cues associated with food reward to optimize nutrient intake. Such appetitive conditioned stimulus-unconditioned…”
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Neurochemical and functional interactions for improved perceptual decisions through training by Jia, Ke, Frangou, Polytimi, Karlaftis, Vasilis M, Ziminski, Joseph J, Giorgio, Joseph, Rideaux, Reuben, Zamboni, Elisa, Hodgson, Victoria, Emir, Uzay, Kourtzi, Zoe

“…Learning and experience are known to improve our ability to make perceptual decisions. Yet, our understanding of the brain mechanisms that support improved…”
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Reversing Cocaine-Induced Adaptations and Reducing Relapse: An Opportunity for Repurposing Riluzole by Ziminski, Joseph J, Koya, Eisuke

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Functional Interactions between Sensory and Memory Networks for Adaptive Behavior by Karlaftis, Vasilis M, Giorgio, Joseph, Zamboni, Elisa, Frangou, Polytimi, Rideaux, Reuben, Ziminski, Joseph J, Kourtzi, Zoe

“…Abstract The brain’s capacity to adapt to sensory inputs is key for processing sensory information efficiently and interacting in new environments. Following…”
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Changes in Appetitive Associative Strength Modulates Nucleus Accumbens, But Not Orbitofrontal Cortex Neuronal Ensemble Excitability by Ziminski, Joseph J, Hessler, Sabine, Margetts-Smith, Gabriella, Sieburg, Meike C, Crombag, Hans S, Koya, Eisuke

“…Cues that predict the availability of food rewards influence motivational states and elicit food-seeking behaviors. If a cue no longer predicts food…”
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Regional Differences in Striatal Neuronal Ensemble Excitability Following Cocaine and Extinction Memory Retrieval in Fos-GFP Mice by Ziminski, Joseph J, Sieburg, Meike C, Margetts-Smith, Gabriella, Crombag, Hans S, Koya, Eisuke

“…Learned associations between drugs of abuse and the drug administration environment have an important role in addiction. In rodents, exposure to a…”
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Recurrent inhibition refines mental templates to optimize perceptual decisions by Jia, Ke, Wang, Mengxin, Steinwurzel, Cecilia, Ziminski, Joseph J, Xi, Yinghua, Emir, Uzay, Kourtzi, Zoe

“…Translating sensory inputs to perceptual decisions relies on building internal representations of features critical for solving complex tasks. Yet, we still…”
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Acute, but not longer‐term, exposure to environmental enrichment attenuates Pavlovian cue‐evoked conditioned approach and Fos expression in the prefrontal cortex in mice by Margetts‐Smith, Gabriella, Macnaghten, Anastasia I., Brebner, Leonie S., Ziminski, Joseph J., Sieburg, Meike C., Grimm, Jeffrey W., Crombag, Hans S., Koya, Eisuke

“…Exposure to environmental enrichment can modify the impact of motivationally relevant stimuli. For instance, previous studies in rats have found that even a…”
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Extinction of cue‐evoked food‐seeking recruits a GABAergic interneuron ensemble in the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex of mice by Brebner, Leonie S., Ziminski, Joseph J., Margetts‐Smith, Gabriella, Sieburg, Meike C., Hall, Catherine N., Heintz, Tristan G., Lagnado, Leon, Hirrlinger, Johannes, Crombag, Hans S., Koya, Eisuke

“…Animals must quickly adapt food‐seeking strategies to locate nutrient sources in dynamically changing environments. Learned associations between food and…”
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Reward Devaluation Attenuates Cue-Evoked Sucrose Seeking and Is Associated with the Elimination of Excitability Differences between Ensemble and Non-ensemble Neurons in the Nucleus Accumbens by Sieburg, Meike C, Ziminski, Joseph J, Margetts-Smith, Gabriella, Reeve, Hayley M, Brebner, Leonie S, Crombag, Hans S, Koya, Eisuke

“…Animals must learn relationships between foods and the environmental cues that predict their availability for survival. Such cue-food associations are encoded…”
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