Carlos D. Brody is a Mexican

neuroscientist A neuroscientist (or neurobiologist) is a scientist specializing in neuroscience that deals with the anatomy and function of neurons, Biological neural network, neural circuits, and glia, and their Behavior, behavioral, biological, and psycholo ...

who is currently the Wilbur H. Gantz III '59 Professor in Neuroscience at

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and is an Investigator of the

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. A cited expert in his field, his interests include systems neuroscience.

Education

He earned his BA in physics from

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and his PhD in Computation and Neural Systems at

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in 1997. He started as an assistant professor at the

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is a private, non-profit institution with research programs focusing on cancer, neuroscience, botany, genomics, and quantitative biology. It is located in Laurel Hollow, New York, in Nassau County, on ...

Selected publications

*Miller KJ, Botvinick MM, Brody CD. Dorsal hippocampus contributes to model-based planning. Nat Neurosci. 2017 *Piet AT, Erlich JC, Kopec CD, Brody CD. Rat Prefrontal Cortex Inactivations during Decision Making Are Explained by Bistable Attractor Dynamics. Neural Comput. 2017; :1-26 *Brody CD, Hanks TD. Neural underpinnings of the evidence accumulator. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2016; 37:149-57 *Kopec CD, Erlich JC, Brunton BW, Deisseroth K, Brody CD. Cortical and Subcortical Contributions to Short-Term Memory for Orienting Movements. Neuron. 2015; 88 (2):367-77 *Duan CA, Erlich JC, Brody CD. Requirement of Prefrontal and Midbrain Regions for Rapid Executive Control of Behavior in the Rat. Neuron. 2015; 86 (6):1491-503 *Scott BB, Constantinople CM, Erlich JC, Tank DW, Brody CD. Sources of noise during accumulation of evidence in unrestrained and voluntarily head-restrained rats. Elife. 2015 ;4:e11308

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