The valence and salience of individual odorants are modulated by an animal’s innate
preferences, learned associations, and internal state, as well as by the context of odorant …

Parkinson's disease (PD), caused by selective loss of dopaminergic (DA) neurons in the
substantia nigra, is the most common movement disorder with no cure or effective treatment. …

The valence and salience of individual odorants are modulated by an animal’s innate
preferences, learned associations, and internal state, as well as by the context of odorant …

Temperature is a critical host-emitted cue for many parasitic species. A recent study shows
that skin-penetrating human parasitic hookworms and threadworms exhibit adaptive host-…

… This dissertation, directed and approved by Munzareen Khan’s Committee, has been
accepted and approved by the Faculty of Brandeis University in partial fulfillment of the …

3.2 Abstract Organisms rely on olfactory signals to find food and mates, avoid predators,
and extract other ecologically important information from the environment. However, odor …

… Farah Khan, MA NYU School of Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry … Sultan Sharrief Munzareen
Padela Nadeem Siddiqi Zainab Kabba Rebecca Hankins Ayesha Anwar Leslie Wade Iman …

Animals must constantly assess their surroundings and integrate sensory cues to make
appropriate behavioral and developmental decisions. Pheromones produced by conspecific …

The parietal-eye photoreceptor is unique because it has two antagonistic light signaling
pathways in the same cell—a hyperpolarizing pathway maximally sensitive to blue light and a …

The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway regulates many cellular functions, but its
roles in the nervous system are still poorly understood. We found that a newly discovered …