Mattias Horan, MD

PhD student @SWC_Neuro:
Neuroscience 🧠 entorhinal • hippocampus // information seeking • parietal cortex
Also: Neurosurgery 🔪 neuromodulation • chronic pain

[Mattias Horan, MD @MHoranMD]

@WeissShahaf @SWC_Neuro @ucl @Cambridge_Uni @Harvard @AllenInstitute @biorxivpreprint Q2, continued: Both approaches are used with success.

Thanks for checking out the work!

[Mattias Horan, MD @MHoranMD]

@WeissShahaf @SWC_Neuro @ucl @Cambridge_Uni @Harvard @AllenInstitute @biorxivpreprint Q1: No, they are not. Most user use 8 or 4. One user opted for a single screw per post.

Q2: Yes indeed! And it's a good solution - though perhaps recommended for the more experienced users (you'll want to be quite sure about anatomy and approach if pre-committing a post depth).

[SWC @SWC_Neuro]

Researchers at SWC, @UCL, @Cambridge_Uni, @Harvard and @AllenInstitute have developed, used and evaluated Repix, a chronic implantation system for Neuropixels probes. Read the @bioRxivpreprint: https://t.co/rYLY11DHFA (1/7)

[Mattias Horan, MD @MHoranMD]

@MCohanpour @mariam_s_aly Big moment indeed! Well done, so cool.

[Mattias Horan, MD @MHoranMD]

@JGandrupMD @WGDixon @ProfMcbeth @Dr_K @CfE_UoM Double doctor 👩‍⚕️👩‍🔬🏅

[Mattias Horan, MD @MHoranMD]

What a journey, indeed, but also what an achievement: real, impactful, patient-centered work, completed during the pandemic, with grace, grit, and teamwork. Congratulations. I’m beaming with pride and joy for you.

[Julie Gandrup Horan @JGandrupMD]

PhD thesis done and submitted!💪What. A. Journey. Sometimes a wee bit bumpy, but definitely worth the ride. A big thanks to everyone who supported me along the way and picked me up when needed. Onwards and upwards!🐝#bringmewine @CfE_UoM

[Mattias Horan, MD @MHoranMD]

Brought home this little bear a year ago today. A bundle of puppy fluff at the beginning, see if you can spot her awkward teen phase (fine, it’s pics 7 to 11). She’s turning into a wise little dog, knows all the tricks 🐻

[Mattias Horan, MD @MHoranMD]

@ElDuvelle Thanks for the initiative, would love to be added, too.

[Mattias Horan, MD @MHoranMD]

@KrishnizzleC In that case, will these neurons be able to predict the NFT’s price?

[Guido Meijer @guido_meijer]

Unbelievable! What started out as a joke is now an actual peer-reviewed article! 🤯🥳 My paper "Neurons in the mouse brain correlate with cryptocurrency price: a cautionary tale" has been recommended by Peer Community In Circuit Neuroscience @PCI_CNeuro. https://t.co/eODc8oq2Mj

[Mattias Horan, MD @MHoranMD]

I found my first-every hippocampal sharp wave ripples. That’s all: Celebrating the tiniest of wins to end 2021.

[Mattias Horan, MD @MHoranMD]

@NasimMortazavi Yes!

[Mattias Horan, MD @MHoranMD]

@hwpdalgleish It’s the Christmas tune at our place!

[Mattias Horan, MD @MHoranMD]

@LalaEwell The best!

[Mattias Horan, MD @MHoranMD]

@ElDuvelle It’s a 4-shank Neuropixel, chronically implanted in HPC. So, the other shanks have similar SWR channels, very exciting.

[Neuromodulation Journal @JNeuromod]

Next week! INS Virtual Journal Club on "Invasive Brain Stimulation for Psychiatric Disorders", Thurs. Sept. 23, 2021, 4:30 EDT. Attend the live event for up to 1.5 CME credits. Register: https://t.co/QhXsj6YlV5

[Mattias Horan, MD @MHoranMD]

Come work with an awesome supervisory team - and me! Great project, too, and important bonus not highlighted in the ad: I bring homebaked cakes to work 🍪🧠

[Neil Burgess @NeilBurgess10]

Postdoc alert!
Record place & grid cells @SWC_Neuro with neuropixels, VR & other cool tech, on @wellcometrust grant w @caswellcaswell @behrenstim Francesca Cacucci & Mark Walton to work out how knowledge is organised for flexible behaviour! Details/apply: https://t.co/kZLzvuBjEO

[SWC @SWC_Neuro]

How do ‘dumb’ agents act clever together? Tune into our Annual Student Symposium on 8 Oct to join the conversation. Speakers include @sabinehauert, @icouzin, @ViolaPriesemann, @oritpeleg, @alfairhall, @IvarHagendoorn, and @StudioDrift! Save your spot: https://t.co/Kq9vTo3NmO

[Mattias Horan, MD @MHoranMD]

@andymurray000 I’m gunning for that highscore on Tuesday!

[Mattias Horan, MD @MHoranMD]

Check it out for some catecholaminergic neuromodulators, medial prefrontal cortex plus topographically organized visual maps in the service of extrinsic and intrinsic drives.
The heavy lifting, obviously, by @MassimoSilvetti and Twitter-less Stefano and Jackie.

[Mattias Horan, MD @MHoranMD]

New from the Gottlieb lab! There’s so much information out in the world, how do we decide what we need to know? What we want to know, even? A wonderful group of people have been working on information seeking behaviors and the parietal attention circuit.

[Mattias Horan, MD @MHoranMD]

It also was super cool to play a small part in this computational collab🧠🖥: a biologically plausible reinforcement meta-learner to study the value and cost of information seeking, both instrumental and curiosity-based.
https://t.co/av9dbMlwXO