Neuronal Population Dynamics of the Cerebral Cortex underlying Spontaneous Volitional Behaviors

在2018财年，我继续处理行为项目，以回应期刊同行评审。首先，我减少了与人类创伤后应激障碍的联系，转而关注通过社会见证在小鼠中发展压力孵化。其次，我报告了三个新实验（Stranger-buffered组，environmental - enrichment组，flx处理组）和两个新测试（血浆皮质酮浓度测试和弥散张量成像）的结果。最后，我加入了一个更清晰的理论框架以及一个扩展的讨论。我受邀在TEDx演讲（2018年10月13日）上向公众展示它的颠覆性创新，这些创新影响了理解动物情感的经典逻辑基础。最近，在这个课题上，我获得了日本筑波大学行为神经内分泌学会青年研究者奖（2019年3月21日）和第三届中日行为神经内分泌前沿研讨会（2019年3月21日）海报竞赛第一名。对于成像项目，我使用机器学习算法来预测神经元活动的行为，反之亦然，在论文提交前的最后一部分控制测试中。关于这一主题，我受邀在ICIIBMS 2018年会议（2018年10月23日）、伦敦大学学院（2019年3月7日）和普林斯顿神经科学研究所（2019年4月10日）上发表了研究成果。在这两个课题上，我都顺利完成了论文和博士学位答辩。

In FY2018, I continued to address behavior project to respond to journal peer-review. First, I reduced the connection to human PTSD and instead focus on the development of stress incubation in mice through social witnessing. Second, I reported the results from three new experiments (Stranger-buffered, Environment-enriched, and FLX-treated groups) and two new tests (plasma corticosterone concentration test and diffusion tensor imaging). Finally, I included a more clearly articulated theoretical framework as well as an expanded discussion.I was invited to present its disruptive innovation that impacts the foundation of classic logic in understanding animal emotion at a TEDx talk (October 13, 2018) to public. Lately, on this topic, I was awarded the Young Investigator Award of the Japanese Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, University of Tsukuba (March 21, 2019) and the 1st place of the poster competition at the 3rd Sino-Japan Workshop on the Frontier of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, University of Tsukuba (March 21, 2019).For the imaging project, I used machine learning algorithms to predict behavior from neuronal activity, and vice versa, for the last part of control tests before the paper submission. On this topic, I was invited to present the results at ICIIBMS 2018 conference (October 23, 2018), University College London (Mar 7, 2019), and Princeton Neuroscience Institute (April 10, 2019). For both topics, I also completed my thesis and defended my PhD successfully.