Charles Darwin used the term “dead reckoning” to describe the mysterious ability of most species to seamlessly navigate back home, even in the absence of external guiding cues. Finding our way home is indeed something most of us take for granted, but this facility is dramatically impaired in many people with Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and epilepsy. Our research is motivated by a desire to understand how healthy neurons in the brain compute the way home and how these same neuronal computations fail in neurological and psychiatric disorders, with the ultimate goal of therapeutically repairing these neurons and computations. Read on for our papers, and please get in touch with Omar if you have questions about our research, want to support our work, or if you’re interested in joining or collaborating with the lab.

New Manuscripts from the Lab: