Mark Laubach PhD
Associate Professor of Neurobiology; Associate Fellow, Pierce Laboratory
Departments & Organizations
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Neuroscience
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Neurobiology: Swartz Program in Theoretical Neurobiology
John B. Pierce Laboratory
John Pierce Laboratory
Research Interests
Basal ganglia; Frontal cortex; Associative learning; Decision making; Working memory; Multi-electrode recording; Reversible inactivation methods, including optogenetic techniques; Intra-cranial drug administration; Advanced statistical analysis; Computational models more...
Education
- Ph.D., Wake Forest University, 1997
Selected Publications
- Horst NK, Laubach M. Working with memory: Evidence for a role for the medial prefrontal cortex in performance monitoring during spatial delayed alternation. J Neurophysiol. 2012 Sep 26. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 23019007.
- Caetano MS, Horst NK, Harenberg L, Liu B, Arnsten AF, Laubach M. Lost in transition: aging-related changes in executive control by the medial prefrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 2012, 32:3765-3777.
- Laubach M. A comparative perspective on executive and motivational control by the medial prefrontal cortex. In Neural basis of motivational and cognitive control. Edited by RB Mars, J Sallet, MFS Rushworth, N Yeung, MIT Press, 2011.
