Submitted by Avraam Papadopoulos on Wed, 09/01/2019 - 11:52
We are delighted to announce two new publications from our lab on the role of GABAergic inhibition in visual perceptual learning. We have used multi-modal human brain imaging (MR Spectroscopy, task fMRI, resting state fMRI) to investigate changes in the concentration of the neurotransmitter GABA during training across decision-making circuits.
Further, work by Dr.
Polytimi Frangou,
Dr. Vasileios Karlaftis and Professor Zoe
Kourtzi from our lab, in collaboration with Professor Charlotte
Stagg (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Holly Bridge (University of Oxford) and Assistant Professor
Uzay Emir (Purdue University) has just been accepted in
Nature Communications. The paper combines ultra-high field MR Spectroscopy of
GABA during training with resting state
fMRI connectivity to uncover the role of
GABAergic inhibition in decision-making circuits for optimising perceptual judgements through learning and experience. Read the article here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-08313-y