Dr. Solange Brown

Biography

Solange Brown holds an MD and PhD and is an Associate Professor at the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the functional organization of local circuits in the neocortex, investigating how interconnected networks of neurons generate perception and action. Through a bottom-up approach, Dr. Brown seeks to understand how circuits integrate incoming information to produce cortical outputs that govern perception, thought, and action. Her strategy combines physiological methodologies with anatomical and genetic techniques to identify relevant cell populations and pathways that illuminate synaptic interactions among various classes of cortical neurons. Dr. Brown's work incorporates simultaneous patch-clamp recordings from multiple neurons, in vivo anatomical genetic labeling of specific cell populations, optical monitoring of neuronal activity, and optical stimulation of long-range axons in specific cortical cell types. This multifaceted approach aims to elucidate the computations occurring within cortical circuits, contributing to an understanding of how these circuits give rise to perceptual behavior.

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