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3221
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Rui M. Costa is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine. Their work spans several subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology.

The scientist's research topics focus on neural dynamics and brain function, neurological disorders and treatments, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, neuroscience and neural engineering, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, and memory and neural mechanisms.

Recent significant publications include:

  • Networking brainstem and basal ganglia circuits for movement, 2022, Nature Reviews. Neuroscience
  • The Anterior Cingulate Cortex Predicts Future States to Mediate Model-Based Action Selection, 2020, Neuron
  • Specific populations of basal ganglia output neurons target distinct brain stem areas while collateralizing throughout the diencephalon, 2021, Neuron
  • Postingestive Modulation of Food Seeking Depends on Vagus-Mediated Dopamine Neuron Activity, 2020, Neuron
  • An Amygdala Circuit Mediates Experience-Dependent Momentary Arrests during Exploration, 2020, Cell

Rui M. Costa has frequently published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Neuron, Movement Disorders, Cell Reports, and Current Biology.

Among frequent coauthors are Joaquim Alves da Silva, Albino J. Oliveira-Maia, Anders Nelson, Andreas Klaus, and Jose M. Carmena.

The scientist was recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Concurrent activation of striatal direct and indirect pathways during action initiation

    Guohong Cui;Sang Beom Jun;Xin Jin;Xin Jin;Michael D. Pham

  • Chronic stress causes frontostriatal reorganization and affects decision-making.

    Eduardo Dias-Ferreira;Eduardo Dias-Ferreira;Eduardo Dias-Ferreira;João Carlos Sousa;Irene Melo;Pedro Morgado

  • Dynamic reorganization of striatal circuits during the acquisition and consolidation of a skill.

    Henry H Yin;Shweta Prasad Mulcare;Monica R F Hilário;Emily Clouse

  • Start/stop signals emerge in nigrostriatal circuits during sequence learning

    Xin Jin;Rui M. Costa;Rui M. Costa

  • Mechanism for the learning deficits in a mouse model of neurofibromatosis type 1

    Rui M. Costa;Nikolai B. Federov;Jeff H. Kogan;Geoffrey G. Murphy

  • Orbitofrontal and striatal circuits dynamically encode the shift between goal-directed and habitual actions.

    Christina M. Gremel;Rui M. Costa

  • Dopamine neuron activity before action initiation gates and invigorates future movements

    Joaquim Alves da Silva;Fatuel Tecuapetla;Vitor Paixão;Rui M. Costa;Rui M. Costa

  • Basal ganglia subcircuits distinctively encode the parsing and concatenation of action sequences

    Xin Jin;Fatuel Tecuapetla;Rui M Costa

  • Matrix metalloproteinase-9 is required for hippocampal late-phase long-term potentiation and memory.

    Vanja Nagy;Ozlem Bozdagi;Anna Matynia;Marcin Balcerzyk

  • Neurofibromin Regulation of ERK Signaling Modulates GABA Release and Learning

    Yijun Cui;Rui M. Costa;Rui M. Costa;Geoffrey G. Murphy;Geoffrey G. Murphy;Ype Elgersma;Ype Elgersma

  • Differential Corticostriatal Plasticity during Fast and Slow Motor Skill Learning in Mice

    Rui M. Costa;Dana Cohen;Miguel A.L. Nicolelis

  • Corticostriatal plasticity is necessary for learning intentional neuroprosthetic skills

    Aaron C. Koralek;Xin Jin;John D. Long;Rui M. Costa

  • Complementary Contributions of Striatal Projection Pathways to Action Initiation and Execution.

    Fatuel Tecuapetla;Xin Jin;Susana Q. Lima;Rui M. Costa

  • Dopaminergic Control of Sleep–Wake States

    Kafui Dzirasa;Sidarta Ribeiro;Rui Costa;Rui Costa;Lucas M. Santos

  • Impaired synaptic plasticity and motor learning in mice with a point mutation implicated in human speech deficits.

    Matthias Groszer;David A. Keays;Robert M.J. Deacon;Joseph P. de Bono

  • Dopaminergic Mechanisms in Actions and Habits

    Jeffery R. Wickens;Jon C. Horvitz;Rui M. Costa;Simon Killcross

  • Rapid alterations in corticostriatal ensemble coordination during acute dopamine-dependent motor dysfunction

    Rui M. Costa;Rui M. Costa;Shih Chieh Lin;Tatyana D D. Sotnikova;Michel Cyr

  • Big behavioral data: psychology, ethology and the foundations of neuroscience

    Alex Gomez-Marin;Joseph J Paton;Adam R Kampff;Rui M Costa

  • What, If, and When to Move: Basal Ganglia Circuits and Self-Paced Action Initiation

    Andreas Klaus;Joaquim Alves da Silva;Rui M Costa

  • The Spatiotemporal Organization of the Striatum Encodes Action Space

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  • Endocannabinoid Modulation of Orbitostriatal Circuits Gates Habit Formation

    Christina M. Gremel;Jessica H. Chancey;Brady K. Atwood;Guoxiang Luo

  • Learning deficits, but normal development and tumor predisposition, in mice lacking exon 23a of Nf1

    Rui M. Costa;Tao Yang;Duong P. Huynh;Stefan M. Pulst

Frequent Co-Authors

Jose M. Carmena
Jose M. Carmena University of California, Berkeley
Alcino J. Silva
Alcino J. Silva University of California, Los Angeles
Simon E. Fisher
Simon E. Fisher Max Planck Society
David M. Lovinger
David M. Lovinger National Institutes of Health
Ype Elgersma
Ype Elgersma Erasmus University Rotterdam
Miguel A. L. Nicolelis
Miguel A. L. Nicolelis Duke University
Chris I. De Zeeuw
Chris I. De Zeeuw Erasmus University Rotterdam
Silvia Arber
Silvia Arber University of Basel
Hans-Otto Karnath
Hans-Otto Karnath University of Tübingen
Geoffrey G. Murphy
Geoffrey G. Murphy University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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