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Michael Halassa. Mike is a physician-scientist who is interested in understanding how the brain controls thoughts and actions based on an internal model of the world. His PhD with Phil Haydon at Penn was focused on cellular neuroscience and his postdoctoral work with Matt Wilson at MIT was focused on systems neuroscience. Mike also spends some

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Michael Halassa. Tufts University. Verified email at tufts.edu - Homepage. Thalamocortical interactions Thalamus neural circuits neural architectures cognition. Articles Cited by Public access. ... MM Halassa, JH Siegle, JT Ritt, JT Ting, G Feng, CI Moore. Nature neuroscience 14 (9), 1118-1120, 2011. 309:

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Michael Halassa Michael Halassa Associate Professor Neuroscience michael.halassa@tufts.edu 55 Kneeland Street. Education Doctor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, USA, 2009; Doctor of Medicine (MD), Univ of Jordan, JOR, 2004; Read More Career Highlights / Publications

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michael.halassa@tufts.edu 136 Harrison Avenue Identifying the role of frontal thalamocortical interactions in decision making under uncertainty. The ability to resolve uncertainty is critical for optimizing choices and outcomes during decision making. While the prefrontal cortex is essential to convert incoming sensory inputs into cognitive

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Michael Halassa currently serves as Associate Professor and Director of Translational Research at the Department of Neuroscience at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. From 2018 to 2022, he served as Assistant and Associate Professor at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences in MIT. Halassa will take up his new position in Neuroscience Center on 15 August 2023.

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Halassa and postdoc Arghya Mukherjee wanted to know how healthy brains handle uncertainty, and recent research from other labs provided some clues. Functional brain imaging had shown that when people are asked to study a scene but they aren't sure what to pay attention to, a part of the brain called the mediodorsal thalamus becomes active.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04056-3
Thalamic circuits for independent control of prefrontal signal and noise. Arghya Mukherjee, Norman H. Lam, Ralf D. Wimmer &. Michael M. Halassa. Nature 600 , 100-104 ( 2021) Cite this article

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Michael Halassa has shown how the brain attends to cues in the outside world and sustains prolonged thought, findings that earned him wide acclaim early in his career. Halassa was born in Amman, Jordan, amid sociopolitical upheaval in the late 1970s. Hailing from a family of religious minorities in Jordan, Halassa spent childhood beset by

https://conte.thalamus.princeton.edu/people/michael-m-halassa-md-phd
Michael M. Halassa, MD, PhD. Position. Lead Investigator - Project 3. Michael M. Halassa, MD, PhD. Position. Lead Investigator - Project 3. About. Bio/Description. Halassa is an Associate Professor at MIT in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. He has been studying thalamic function since his postdoctoral training. His early work

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Michael Halassa is an associate investigator at the McGovern Institute and an assistant professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Halassa's research focuses on the neural architectures that underlie complex cognitive processes. He is particularly interested in goal-directed attention, our ability to rapidly switch

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Michael M. Halassa. Michael M. Halassa is at the McGovern Institute and in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

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Halassa and his colleagues now hope to apply their findings to improve neural networks' ability to store previously learned tasks while learning to perform new ones. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Brain and Behavior Foundation, the Klingenstein Foundation, the Pew Foundation, the Simons Foundation, the Human

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BrainMind Summit at MIT - Michael Halassa's research is focused on the neural basis of cognitive control and flexibility, particularly in attention and decis

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Michael Halassa, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, seeks to understand how information is routed through neural circuits in the brain and how disruptions in these circuits can lead to neurological and psychiatric disorders. As a practicing psychiatrist he aims to develop novel approaches to diagnosing and treating these

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Halassa MM, Siegle JH, Ritt JT, Ting JT, Feng G, Moore CI. Selective optical drive of thalamic reticular nucleus generates thalamic bursts and cortical spindles. Nature Neuroscience. 14: 1118-20. PMID 21785436 DOI: 10.1038/Nn.2880 : 0.714: 2011: Florian C, Vecsey CG, Halassa MM, Haydon PG, Abel T. Astrocyte-derived adenosine and A1 receptor

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Here, Michael Halassa and colleagues trained mice to attend to the appropriate stimulus by selecting between two competing auditory and visual stimuli. Performance on this task required the

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Thalamic Inhibition: Diverse Sources, Diverse Scales. Michael M. Halassa1,2,* and László Acsády3,*. The thalamus is the major source of cortical inputs shaping sensation, action, and cognition. Thalamic circuits are targeted by two major inhibitory systems: the thalamic reticular nucleus (TRN) and extrathalamic inhibitory (ETI) inputs.

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'Michael Halassa has done a superb job selecting the contributors for the chapters of The Thalamus, who range from the long-standing authorities in the field to some new and fresh voices. It will be of real value to neuroscience students and researchers in the field.' Robert Desimone - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

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Michael Halassa. Principal Investigator. PROFILE. Ralf Wimmer. Research Assistant Professor. PROFILE. Arghya Mukherjee. Postdoctoral Associate. PROFILE. Norman Lam. Postdoctoral Associate. ... Halassa Lab is committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race

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'Michael Halassa has done a superb job selecting the contributors for the chapters of The Thalamus, who range from the long-standing authorities in the field to some new and fresh voices. It will be of real value to neuroscience students and researchers in the field.'

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Here, using anatomical tracing, functional manipulations, and optical identification of PFC projection neurons, we find that the PFC regulates sensory thalamic activity through a basal ganglia (BG) pathway. Engagement of this PFC-BG-thalamus pathway enables selection between vision and audition by primarily suppressing the distracting modality.