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I have over a decade of experience in systems and cognitive neurobiology, at the following instutitions: University of California, Berkeley; Stanford School of Medicine; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown; University of California, Irvine; and University of Texas, Southwestern.
Currently, my research interests include:
Characterizing hippocampal-cortical interactions during different stages of memory processing.
Finding novel targets for noninvasive brain stimulation, in order to improve cognitive function in mild cognitive impairment and dementia.
Enhancing stimulation with precisely timed cognitive remediation and psychotherapy through novel mediums, such as virtual reality.
2PMovie_Neurons.aviMy recordings of thousands of neurons in a mouse brain while the animal is navigating a custom virtual reality environment. The activity is recorded in the retrosplenial cortex, a primary recipient of hippocampal input (Interest 1), and an early area of amyoid pathology in Alzheimer's Disease (Interest 2). Combining virtual reality to stimulate activity in such areas, highlights potential to combine therapies for maximal therapeutic benefit (Interest 3).
Selected Publications
Please see my Google Scholar profile for a complete list of publications.
Navratilova Zaneta*; Banerjee, Dhruba*; Muqolli, Fjolla; Zhang, Jordan; Gandhi, Sunil; McNaughton, Bruce. “Place Field Dynamics in Retrosplenial Cortex Compared to Hippocampus.” Progress in Neurobiology, vol 257, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2025.102867.
Banerjee, Dhruba; Lee, Chang-Hoon; Im, Kyoungbin. “Case report of hypoglossal nerve stimulation therapy failure due to significant underlying central sleep apnea.” Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 7 March 2024, https://doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.11094.
Zheng, XiaoTing; Salinas, Kirstie J; Figueroa Velez, DX; Nakayama, Taylor; Lin, Xiaxiao; Banerjee, Dhruba; Xu, Xiangmin; Gandhi, Sunil P. “Host Interneurons Mediate Plasticity Reactivated by Embryonic Inhibitory Cell Transplantation in Mouse Visual Cortex.” Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21097-4.
Lottem, Eran; Banerjee, Dhruba; Vertechi, Pietro; Sarra, Dario; Lohuis, Matthijs oude; Mainen, Zachary F. “Activation of Serotonin Neurons Promotes Active Persistence in a Probabilistic Foraging Task.” Nature Communications, vol. 9, no. 1, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03438-y.
Correia, Patrícia A; Lottem, Eran; Banerjee, Dhruba; Machado, Ana S; Carey, Megan R; Mainen, Zachary F. “Transient Inhibition and Long-Term Facilitation of Locomotion by Phasic Optogenetic Activation of Serotonin Neurons.” eLife, vol. 6, 2017, https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.20975.
* Co-first author
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