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Overview

Sheri J. Y. Mizumori is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of neuroscience, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience as well as cellular and molecular neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, education, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including memory and neural mechanisms, neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, stress responses and cortisol, neural and behavioral psychology studies, sleep and wakefulness research, and cognitive abilities and testing.

Recent notable publications by Sheri J. Y. Mizumori include:

  • "Response Flexibility: The Role of the Lateral Habenula," 2022, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • "Lateral Habenula Beyond Avoidance: Roles in Stress, Memory, and Decision-Making With Implications for Psychiatric Disorders," 2022, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
  • "A selective role for the mPFC during choice and deliberation, but not spatial memory retention over short delays," 2021, Hippocampus
  • "Loss of Sensitivity to Rewards by Dopamine Neurons May Underlie Age-Related Increased Probability Discounting," 2020, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • "Connecting counterspaces and community cultural wealth in a professional development program," 2020, Race Ethnicity and Education

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Jesse T. Miles, Kevan S. Kidder, Phillip M. Baker, David H. Gire, and M. Claire Horner-Devine. The most common venues for publication are Hippocampus, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, and Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Comparison of spatial and temporal characteristics of neuronal activity in sequential stages of hippocampal processing.

    Carol A. Barnes;Bruce L. McNaughton;Shed J.Y. Mizumori;Brian W. Leonard

  • Disruption of NMDAR-dependent burst firing by dopamine neurons provides selective assessment of phasic dopamine-dependent behavior.

    Larry S. Zweifel;Jones Griffith Parker;Collin J. Lobb;Aundrea Rainwater

  • Directionally selective mnemonic properties of neurons in the lateral dorsal nucleus of the thalamus of rats

    S. J. Y. Mizumori;J. D. Williams

  • Hippocampal place cells, context, and episodic memory

    David M. Smith;Sheri J.Y. Mizumori

  • Activation of dopamine neurons is critical for aversive conditioning and prevention of generalized anxiety

    Larry S Zweifel;Jonathan P Fadok;Emmanuela Argilli;Michael G Garelick

  • Learning-Related Development of Context-Specific Neuronal Responses to Places and Events: The Hippocampal Role in Context Processing

    David M Smith;Sheri J Y Mizumori

  • Role of the dorsomedial striatum in behavioral flexibility for response and visual cue discrimination learning.

    Michael E. Ragozzino;Katharine E. Ragozzino;Sheri J. Y. Mizumori;Raymond P. Kesner

  • Reversible inactivation of the medial septum differentially affects two forms of learning in rats.

    S.J.Y. Mizumori;G.M. Perez;M.C. Alvarado;C.A. Barnes

  • Preserved spatial coding in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells during reversible suppression of CA3c output: evidence for pattern completion in hippocampus.

    S. J. Y. Mizumori;B. L. Mcnaughton;C. A. Barnes;K. B. Fox

  • Cortical Representation of Motion during Unrestrained Spatial Navigation in the Rat

    B. L. McNaughton;S. J. Y. Mizumori;C. A. Barnes;B. J. Leonard

  • Spatial, movement- and reward-sensitive discharge by medial ventral striatum neurons of rats.

    A.M. Lavoie;S.J.Y. Mizumori

  • Neurons in rat medial prefrontal cortex show anticipatory rate changes to predictable differential rewards in a spatial memory task

    Wayne E Pratt;Sheri J.Y Mizumori

  • Temporary Inactivation of the Retrosplenial Cortex Causes a Transient Reorganization of Spatial Coding in the Hippocampus

    Brenton G. Cooper;Sheri J. Y. Mizumori

  • The Lateral Habenula Circuitry: Reward Processing and Cognitive Control.

    Phillip M. Baker;Thomas Jhou;Bo Li;Masayuki Matsumoto

  • A comparison of supramammillary and medial septal influences on hippocampal field potentials and single-unit activity

    S. J. Y. Mizumori;B. L. Mcnaughton;C. A. Barnes

  • Reversible inactivation of the lateral dorsal thalamus disrupts hippocampal place representation and impairs spatial learning

    S.J.Y. Mizumori;D.Y. Miya;K.E. Ward

  • Retrosplenial cortex inactivation selectively impairs navigation in darkness.

    Brenton G. Cooper;Sheri J. Y. Mizumori

  • Excitotoxic Septal Lesions Result in Spatial Memory Deficits and Altered Flexibility of Hippocampal Single-Unit Representations

    Stefan Leutgeb;Sheri J. Y. Mizumori

  • Parallel processing across neural systems: implications for a multiple memory system hypothesis.

    Sheri J.Y. Mizumori;Oksana Yeshenko;Kathryn M. Gill;Denise M. Davis

  • Finding your way in the dark: the retrosplenial cortex contributes to spatial memory and navigation without visual cues.

    Brenton G. Cooper;Theodore F. Manka;Sheri J. Y. Mizumori

  • Hippocampal Representational Organization and Spatial Context

    S.J.Y. Mizumori;K.E. Ragozzino;B.G. Cooper;S. Leutgeb

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Leutgeb
Stefan Leutgeb University of California, San Diego
Carol A. Barnes
Carol A. Barnes University of Arizona
Bruce L. McNaughton
Bruce L. McNaughton University of California, Irvine
Larry S. Zweifel
Larry S. Zweifel University of Washington
Raymond P. Kesner
Raymond P. Kesner University of Utah
Ilene L. Bernstein
Ilene L. Bernstein University of Washington
A. David Redish
A. David Redish University of Minnesota
David M. Lovinger
David M. Lovinger National Institutes of Health
Michael E. Ragozzino
Michael E. Ragozzino University of Illinois at Chicago
Antonello Bonci
Antonello Bonci National Institute on Drug Abuse

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