Research groups
Anna S Mitchell
BA MSc(Hons) PhD
Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Experimental Psychology
Thalamo-cortical interactions
Research Summary
Dr Mitchell's group studies the neurobiology of learning and decision-making focusing on the contributions of the dorsal medial thalamus and interconnected structures in health and disease using animal models and humans. She is also interested in how the thalamus and cortex contribute to learning, remembering, and updating our whereabouts in our visual environment. Her laboratory uses several approaches to investigate their research questions including: neurophysiology, neuroimaging, neuroanatomy, and cognitive, physiological, and behavioral assessments.
Key publications
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Cortico-cortical and thalamocortical changes in functional connectivity and white matter structural integrity after reward-guided learning of visuospatial discriminations in rhesus monkeys.
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Pelekanos V. et al, (2020), J Neurosci
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Critical role for the mediodorsal thalamus in permitting rapid reward-guided updating in stochastic reward environments.
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Chakraborty S. et al, (2016), Elife, 5
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Evidence for Mediodorsal Thalamus and Prefrontal Cortex Interactions during Cognition in Macaques.
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Browning PGF. et al, (2015), Cereb Cortex, 25, 4519 - 4534
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The mediodorsal thalamus as a higher order thalamic relay nucleus important for learning and decision-making.
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Mitchell AS., (2015), Neurosci Biobehav Rev, 54, 76 - 88
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Retrosplenial Cortical Contributions to Anterograde and Retrograde Memory in the Monkey.
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Buckley MJ. and Mitchell AS., (2016), Cereb Cortex, 26, 2905 - 2918
Recent publications
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Evidence for two distinct thalamocortical circuits in retrosplenial cortex.
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Lomi E. et al, (2021), Neurobiol Learn Mem, 185
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Combining brain perturbation and neuroimaging in non-human primates.
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Klink PC. et al, (2021), Neuroimage, 235
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International primate neuroscience research regulation, public engagement and transparency opportunities.
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Mitchell AS. et al, (2021), Neuroimage, 229
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Protective cranial implant caps for macaques.
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Perry BAL. et al, (2020), J Neurosci Methods