News
2023
22/11/2023 Tom Macpherson won the Osaka University Young Investigator Award 2023.
12/11/2023 Tom Macpherson gave a nanosymposium talk at 2023 Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Meeting in Washington DC, USA.
03/07/2023 Our mini-symposium entitled "Cross-species mechanisms of learning and adaptive behavior" chaired by Tom Macpherson and Aurelio Cortese was held at the 2023 Japan Neuroscience Society (JNS) meeting in Sendai, Japan.
26/05/2023 Our research paper "Attachaipanich et al., (2023) Dual roles for nucleus accumbens dopamine D1 receptor-expressing neurons projecting to the substantia nigra pars reticulata in limbic and motor control in male mice" was published in eNeuro. (Link)
12/04/2023 Our research paper "Nishioka et al., (2023), Error-related signaling in nucleus accumbens D2 receptor-expressing neurons guides inhibition-based choice behavior in mice" was published in Nature Communications (Link)
Tom Macpherson presented a talk at the 100th Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan in Kyoto, Japan, entitled "Cell-type specific control of reward and aversive signaling in the nucleus accumbens".
26/03/2023 Our Preprint paper "Attachaipanich et al., (2023), Dual roles for nucleus accumbens dopamine D1 receptor-expressing neurons projecting to the substantia nigra pars reticulata in limbic and motor control" was uploaded to BioXriv. (Link)
2022
16/11/2022 Our mini-symposium entitled "Adaptive Behavior: From cognitive control to clinical conditions" chaired by Tom Macpherson and Aurelio Cortese was held at the 2023 Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting in San Diego, USA.
Tom Macpherson presented a talk entitled "Striatal mechanisms of discrimination learning and their dysfunction in a schizophrenia model mouse"
13/11/2022 Our group presented two posters at the recent 2023 Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting in San Diego, USA.
K. SAKURAI, E. KASAHARA, T. OZAWA, T. MACPHERSON, Y. MIYAMOTO, Y. YONEDA, A. SEKIYAMA, M. OKA, T. HIKIDA
Y. AOMINE, K. SAKURAI, T. MACPHERSON, T. OZAWA, Y. MIYAMOTO, M. OKA, Y. YONEDA, T. HIKIDA
21/09/2022 Tom Macpherson presented a poster entitled "Nucleus accumbens subpopulations cooperatively signal reward and aversion" at the 4th Japan-UK Neuroscience Symposium 2022 in Karuizawa, Japan.
04/07/2022 Tom Macpherson presented a talk entitled "Neural circuit mechanisms in behavioral flexibility" at the International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science 2022 at Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology (OIST), Japan.
04/07/2022 Tom Macpherson presented a talk entitled "Neural circuit mechanisms in behavioral flexibility" at the International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science 2022 at Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology (OIST), Japan.
02/07/2022 Our symposium entitled "Parallel and Hierarchical Neural Mechanisms Underpinning Adaptive and Predictive Behavioral Control" chaired by Tom Macpherson and Hiroaki Gomi was held at the 2022 Japan Neuroscience Society (JNS) meeting in Okinawa, Japan.
30/06/2022 Tom Macpherson gave a talk entitled "Neural mechanisms in reward and aversion signaling" at the 2022 Japan Neuroscience Society (JNS) meeting in Okinawa, Japan.
03/06/2022 Our research paper "Macpherson et al., (2022), Nucleus Accumbens Core dopamine D2 receptor-expressing neurons control reversal learning but not set-shifting in behavioral flexibility in male mice" has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Neuroscience (Link)
17/05/2022 Our research paper "Aomine et al., (2022), Importin α3 (KPNA3) deficiency augments effortful reward-seeking behavior in mice" has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Neuroscience (Link)
05/01/2022 Our Preprint paper "Nishioka et al., (2022), Error-related Signaling in Nucleus Accumbens D2 Receptor-expressing Neurons Guides Avoidancebased Goal-directed Behavior" has been uploaded to Research Square (Link)