Matthijs van der Meer

Hippocampal replay meets dopamine in the talented @mimijanssen.bsky.social’s first preprint from the lab!

Great to hear! Congratulations to all involved, looking forward to following your work!

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Current NIH- and NSF-funded projects in the lab focus on what determines the content of hippocampal replay, and on how replay interacts with downstream reward signals in the ventral striatum to support flexible behavior. Check out some of our recent work here: scholar.google.com/citations?hl...

We are looking for a research assistant/lab manager to join the lab! A supportive, collaborative environment where you can learn neural recording with Neuropixels, optogenetics, fiber photometry, and neural data analysis.

Why animal models are useful for CNS drug discovery: Part 2 Animal models predict activity of novel psychiatric medications

Conclusion: of the 7 major classes of ‘novel’ psychiatric drugs, the potential therapeutic actions of 6 were discovered using animal models of drug action.
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This is awesome, thanks for sharing!

Beautiful work!

Very nice! What program/what students can take these practicals? Is there a syllabus available?

Congrats, Leyla!!

This was already awesome before I read the word “evacuated”! Curious to learn how that phase of the study worked. Fire alarm??

See you there!!

highly recommend!

Welcome Fred! We’re so lucky to have you!

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Wonderful news, congratulations!!

Amazing! Congratulations— looking forward to hearing about the exciting and important work you have planned!!

“Planning has value in units of cheese” — @nathanieldaw.bsky.social at #CNS2025

Check out the amazing lineup we have for the Sunday 10am Symposium at CNS on the Cognitive Functions of Replay: Matthijs van der Meer, Nathaniel Daw, and Helen Barron 🤩@mvandermeer.bsky.social @nathanieldaw.bsky.social @helencbarron.bsky.social

Awake replay: off the clock but on the job Hippocampal replay is widely thought to support two key cognitive functions: online decision-making and offline memory consolidation. In this review, we take a closer look at the hypothesized link bet...

New opinion paper in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social with Dan Bendor, where we argue that rodent studies provide only marginal support for the idea that replay supports real-time decisions (e.g. planning). Fictive learning and memory tagging are more consistent w/evidence. www.cell.com/trends/neuro...