Adam Mar
New York University, NY·Neuroscience
How do brain chemicals that tune neural circuits, such as the hormone oxytocin, shape how mice behave toward each other and move through their surroundings? Answering this requires watching animals for long stretches, often while their brain activity is also being recorded or changed.
- Fields
Neuroscience
Psychology
Computer Science
- Topics
oxytocin
neuromodulation
social behavior
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jul 2028
What they work on
- Increase the capacity of continuous home-cage behavioral monitoring of mice, raising the number of animals tracked per cage and improving the pipeline that collects and analyzes video data.
- Develop more complex housing environments to study social and spatial behavior and decision-making in mouse colonies of small to moderate size.
- Provide oxytocin-related social and spatial behavioral tests to project teams, and breed and house the transgenic mouse lines the center requires.
More about the research
This grant funds the Behavior Core of a larger research center on how oxytocin modulates neural circuit function and behavior. The core provides long-term behavioral monitoring of mouse social and spatial behavior. It runs around the clock, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, for days to months at a time.
Why it matters
Better tools for tracking many mice continuously could help researchers learn how oxytocin and other brain chemicals shape social behavior and decision-making. The grant states no direct clinical application. The work adds understanding of how changes in brain chemistry relate to natural behavior in groups.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY·Neuroscience
Determine the types and distribution of oxytocin-binding receptors across the mouse cerebellar cortex, and test how oxytocin affects neuron activity and the transmission of signals between neurons.
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University of Maryland, MD·Computer Science
Develop machine-learning methods that analyze video and audio of violin students to judge posture, bowing and sound quality, and explain causally why a movement error produced a poor sound.
The school
New York University: 72 labs on PI Pages, $1.5B a year on research, 540 research doctorates a year.
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