Aaron P. Batista

Sep 11, 2024 | jneurosci.org | Michele Basso |Aaron P. Batista |Cory Miller |Karen Parker

COVID-19 and polio vaccines, HIV/AIDS treatments, blood transfusions, and organ transplantation are just a few of the medical advances made possible by research involving nonhuman primates, specifically monkeys. In neuroscience, we have monkeys to thank for deep brain stimulation therapy, a neurosurgical treatment for Parkinson's disease, and now also for dystonia, depression, and obsessive–compulsive disorder.

Jan 28, 2024 | nature.com | Raeed H. Chowdhury |Aaron P. Batista |Byron M. Yu

AbstractThe most prominent characteristic of motor cortex is its activation during movement execution, but it is also active when we simply imagine movements in the absence of actual motor output. Despite decades of behavioural and imaging studies, it is unknown how the specific activity patterns and temporal dynamics in motor cortex during covert motor imagery relate to those during motor execution.

Nov 8, 2023 | jneurosci.org | Aaron P. Batista

Common Mechanisms of Learning in Motor and Cognitive Systems Christos Constantinidis, Alaa A. Ahmed, Joni D. Wallis, Aaron P. Batista Journal of Neuroscience 8 November 2023, 43 (45) 7523-7529; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1505-23.2023