Assistant Professor Jerry Lu Chen is interested in neural oscillations in the brain, which have long been associated with cognition. Abnormalities in such activity patterns have been identified in a wide-range of neurological disorders and thus can serve as a useful non-invasive biomarker for patient diagnosis. This research aims to directly assess the role of neural oscillations in information selection and routing in the cortex by establishing an integrated methodological approach combining optical and electrophysiological recording techniques across multiple scales in the awake behaving animal.
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