Functional development of head direction cells in a rat model of autism and intellectual disability. Contact type Person First name Noah Surname Stypidou Role PhD Student - Wood Lab Organisation 1 1 George Square Organisation 2 Edinburgh Organisation 3 EH8 9JZ Email S1532768@ed.ac.uk Personal Profile 2015-2019 - BSc Biomedical Sciences (Honours Neuroscience), University of Edinburgh Research My project involves investigating the functional development of head direction cells in a rat model of autism and intellectual disability. The development of connections relaying information from the thalamus to the cortex has been implicated in the pathology of Fragile X Syndrome (FXS), one of the leading causes of autism. These connections are necessary for the normal development of the head direction sense, which is key for spatial cognition. I am employing large scale in vivo electrophysiology to examine how head direction cells might be affected in rats modelling this syndrome at different developmental stages. This article was published on Monday 17 October 2022
Contact type Person First name Noah Surname Stypidou Role PhD Student - Wood Lab Organisation 1 1 George Square Organisation 2 Edinburgh Organisation 3 EH8 9JZ Email S1532768@ed.ac.uk
