Stauffer Laboratory of Behavioral Neurophysiology
Go deep, or go home...
Our lab specializes in how the brain gives rise to the mind. Specifically, we study neural circuits that respond to, and generate, aspects of our subjective mental narrative - including values, emotions, and decisions.
We are committed to achieving deep insights that span multiple 'levels of understanding' - from goals, to algorithms, to cell type specific implementations.
Research Areas
COMPLEXITY
UNCERTAINTY
CELL TYPES, CIRCUITS, and AAVS
Representative Publications
Transcriptional and anatomical diversity of medium spiny neurons
scAAVengr
Rare rewards amplify dopamine responses
Recent News
January 23, 2023: Our ASAP Team has an abstract accepted for the 2023 ASAP Collaborative Meeting in San Diego!
January 9, 2023: Ghada, CNUP Graduate Student, joins the lab for a rotation.
December 21, 2022: Tao's paper was accepted at Nature Neuroscience!!!
December 14-15, 2022: Bill, Jing, Aydin, and Willa attend the NIMH Genetic Technologies for Systems Neuroscience in Non-Human Primates conference in Baltimore.
December 1, 2022: Bill speaks at the TEDxPittsburgh Lineage event.
November 28, 2022: Kati successfully defended her dissertation!!
November 12-16, 2022: Aydin, Jing, Kati, Tao, and Willa present posters at SfN in San Diego.
October 14, 2022: Tao completed his second year milestone presentation.
August 2022: The lab had 4 posters accepted for SfN.
We are dedicated to cultivating a diverse lab environment, and do not discriminate based on race or ethnicity, immigration status, sexuality or gender identity, socio-economic, or disability status.