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Overview

Linda Wilbrecht is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans several fields within neuroscience and psychology, with a particular focus on the intersections of cognitive and behavioral neuroscience.

The main fields of study for Wilbrecht include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Their work covers subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Molecular Biology

Wilbrecht's research engages with several key topics, including:

  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Child and Animal Learning Development

Recent notable publications include:

  • "What do reinforcement learning models measure? Interpreting model parameters in cognition and neuroscience," 2021, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • "The interpretation of computational model parameters depends on the context," 2022, eLife
  • "Coming of age in the frontal cortex: The role of puberty in cortical maturation," 2021, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • "Explaining dopamine through prediction errors and beyond," 2024, Nature Neuroscience
  • "Transient food insecurity during the juvenile-adolescent period affects adult weight, cognitive flexibility, and dopamine neurobiology," 2022, Current Biology

Frequent collaborators for Wilbrecht include:

  • Anne Collins
  • Wan Chen Lin
  • Maria K. Eckstein
  • Kristen Delevich
  • Lung-Hao Tai

Wilbrecht's work is commonly published in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Transient and Persistent Dendritic Spines in the Neocortex In Vivo

    Anthony J.G.D. Holtmaat;Joshua T. Trachtenberg;Linda Wilbrecht;Gordon M. Shepherd

  • Long-term, high-resolution imaging in the mouse neocortex through a chronic cranial window

    Anthony Holtmaat;Anthony Holtmaat;Tobias Bonhoeffer;David K Chow;Jyoti Chuckowree

  • Importance of investing in adolescence from a developmental science perspective

    Ronald E. Dahl;Nicholas B. Allen;Linda Wilbrecht;Ahna Ballonoff Suleiman

  • Experience-dependent and cell-type-specific spine growth in the neocortex.

    Anthony Holtmaat;Linda Wilbrecht;Graham W. Knott;Egbert Welker

  • Spine growth precedes synapse formation in the adult neocortex in vivo.

    Graham W Knott;Anthony Holtmaat;Linda Wilbrecht;Egbert Welker

  • Cell Type-Specific Structural Plasticity of Axonal Branches and Boutons in the Adult Neocortex

    Vincenzo De Paola;Anthony Holtmaat;Graham Knott;Sen Song

  • Transient stimulation of distinct subpopulations of striatal neurons mimics changes in action value

    Lung-Hao Tai;A Moses Lee;Nora Benavidez;Antonello Bonci;Antonello Bonci;Antonello Bonci

  • Cell-Type-Specific Control of Brainstem Locomotor Circuits by Basal Ganglia

    Thomas K. Roseberry;Thomas K. Roseberry;A. Moses Lee;A. Moses Lee;Arnaud L. Lalive;Linda Wilbrecht

  • Identification of a Brainstem Circuit Regulating Visual Cortical State in Parallel with Locomotion

    A. Moses Lee;A. Moses Lee;Jennifer L. Hoy;Antonello Bonci;Antonello Bonci;Linda Wilbrecht

  • Nucleus Accumbens Medium Spiny Neurons Target Non-Dopaminergic Neurons in the Ventral Tegmental Area

    Yanfang Xia;Joseph R. Driscoll;Linda Wilbrecht;Elyssa B. Margolis

  • A basal ganglia circuit for evaluating action outcomes

    Marcus Stephenson-Jones;Kai Yu;Sandra Ahrens;Jason M. Tucciarone;Jason M. Tucciarone

  • Does puberty mark a transition in sensitive periods for plasticity in the associative neocortex

    David J. Piekarski;Carolyn M. Johnson;Josiah R. Boivin;A. Wren Thomas

  • Imaging striatal dopamine release using a nongenetically encoded near infrared fluorescent catecholamine nanosensor.

    Abraham G. Beyene;Kristen Delevich;Kristen Delevich;Jackson Travis Del Bonis-O’Donnell;David J. Piekarski

  • Structural Plasticity Underlies Experience-Dependent Functional Plasticity of Cortical Circuits

    Linda Wilbrecht;Anthony Holtmaat;Nicholas Fraser Wright;Kevin Dyson Fox

  • Ovarian Hormones Organize the Maturation of Inhibitory Neurotransmission in the Frontal Cortex at Puberty Onset in Female Mice

    David J. Piekarski;Josiah R. Boivin;Linda Wilbrecht;Linda Wilbrecht

  • Juvenile mice show greater flexibility in multiple choice reversal learning than adults.

    Carolyn Johnson;Linda Wilbrecht

  • The role of the entorhinal cortex in two forms of spatial learning and memory

    D. M. Bannerman;B. K. Yee;M. Lemaire;L. Wilbrecht

  • Vocal learning in birds and humans.

    Linda Wilbrecht;Fernando Nottebohm

  • Cocaine-induced structural plasticity in frontal cortex correlates with conditioned place preference

    Francisco Javier Muñoz-Cuevas;Jegath Athilingam;Denise Piscopo;Denise Piscopo;Linda Wilbrecht;Linda Wilbrecht

  • What do reinforcement learning models measure? Interpreting model parameters in cognition and neuroscience

    Maria K Eckstein;Linda Wilbrecht;Linda Wilbrecht;Anne Ge Collins;Anne Ge Collins

  • The BDNF valine 68 to methionine polymorphism increases compulsive alcohol drinking in mice that is reversed by tropomyosin receptor kinase B activation

    Vincent Warnault;Emmanuel Darcq;Nadege Morisot;Khanhky Phamluong

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald E. Dahl
Ronald E. Dahl University of California, Berkeley
Anthony Holtmaat
Anthony Holtmaat University of Geneva
Karel Svoboda
Karel Svoboda Allen Institute
Graham Knott
Graham Knott École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Antonello Bonci
Antonello Bonci National Institute on Drug Abuse
Fernando Nottebohm
Fernando Nottebohm Rockefeller University
Dorit Ron
Dorit Ron University of California, San Francisco
Joshua T. Trachtenberg
Joshua T. Trachtenberg University of California, Los Angeles
Thomas D. Mrsic-Flogel
Thomas D. Mrsic-Flogel University College London
Silvia A. Bunge
Silvia A. Bunge University of California, Berkeley

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