Project Grant K99MH135993

This federal Project Grant award of $126,619 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) supports research on the neural circuit dynamics underlying spatial reward memory at Stanford University. The project aims to elucidate how the hippocampus and medial entorhinal cortex work together to encode and remember rewarding spatial locations. The research combines advanced neural recording techniques in rodents, innovative behavioral tasks, and computational modeling to understand the neural coding properties and population dynamics that allow the brain to amplify and store information associated with rewards. This work will provide key insights into the neuroscience of flexible, reward-driven spatial memory and decision-making, laying the foundation for the investigator's independent research career focused on how neural circuits adapt information storage based on behavioral demands.