Neurobehavioural Dynamics - Prof. Burdakov

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change" - Stephen Hawking

How does the brain protects health from changes and uncertainties in the world? Why does this fail in neuropsychiatric disease? Our laboratory investigates neural systems (signals, circuits, algorithms) that appropriately link adaptive action to present and past states of the world. We are particularly interested in neural logic underlying innate and learned adaptive behaviours (e.g. food choice, learning a skill, sleep/wake switching), and neural pathways through which voluntarily-controllable sensorium modalities (e.g. diet) shape cognition and action. To explore this, we reverse-engineer the operation of mammalian brain circuits using real-time sensors and actuators of genetically-defined neural dynamics during successes and failures of adaptive behaviour.  

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