Publications

Mediodorsal thalamus regulates task uncertainty to enable cognitive flexibility

Zhang X, Mukherjee A , Halassa MM, Chen ZS

Nat Commun., 2025. 16, 2640. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-58011-1

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Prefrontal transthalamic uncertainty processing drives flexible switching.

Lam NH*, Mukherjee A*, Wimmer RD, Nassar M, Chen ZS, Halassa MM.

Nature, 2025. 637(8044):127-136. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-08180-8.

*Equal Contribution. 

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Thalamocortical architectures for flexible cognition and efficient learning

Scott DN, Mukherjee A , Nassar MR, Halassa MM.

Trends Cogn. Sci., 2024. 28(8):739-756. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.05.006.

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The Associative Thalamus A Switchboard for Cortical Operations and a Promising Target for Schizophrenia
Mukherjee A and Halassa MM.
The Neuroscientist, 2024. 30(1):132-147. doi: 10.1177/10738584221112861.

Thalamic circuits for independent control of prefrontal signal and noise
Mukherjee A*, Lam NH*, Wimmer RD, and Halassa MM. 
Nature, 2021. 600(7887):100-104. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04056-3.

*Equal Contribution.

Sensitivity of olfactory sensory neurons to food cues is tuned to nutritional states by Neuropeptide Y signaling

 Kaniganti T, Deogade A, Maduskar A, Mukherjee A, Guru A, Subhedar N, and Ghose A.

J Neurochem., 2021. 159(6):1028-1044. doi: 10.1111/jnc.15488.

Variation of connectivity across exemplar sensory and associative thalamocortical loops in the mouse
Mukherjee A*#, Bajwa N*, Lam N, Porrero C, Clasca F, and Halassa MM#
Elife, 2020. 26;9:e62554. doi: 10.7554/eLife.62554.

*Equal Contribution; #Corresponding authors.  

Long-Lasting Rescue of Network and Cognitive Dysfunction in a Genetic Schizophrenia Model
Mukherjee A, Carvalho F, Eliez S, and Caroni P. 
Cell, 2019. 5;178(6):1387-1402.e14. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.07.02.

Parvalbumin Interneuron Plasticity for Consolidation of Reinforced Learning             
Tripodi M, Bhandari K, Chowdhury A, Mukherjee A, and Caroni P            
Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol., 2018. 83:25-35. doi: 10.1101/sqb.2018.83.037630.

Infralimbic cortex is required for learning alternatives to prelimbic promoted associations through reciprocal connectivity
Mukherjee A and Caroni P. 
Nat Commun., 2018. 13;9(1):2727. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05318-x.