Kathleen Cho
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Integrative Neuroscience
UC San Francisco
Disciplines: Neuroscience / Cognitive Science
Kathleen received her B.S. with Honors in Neuroscience and a B.A. in History at Brown University. At MIT, she studied learning and memory mechanisms in the visual cortex in Mark Bear's laboratory and earned a Ph.D. in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. She joined Vikaas Sohal's laboratory at UCSF as a postdoctoral fellow, to study the mechanisms of functional circuits in the context of mental illness.
Articles
Abnormal brain activity in certain neurons can impede learning in mice. Could this finding help people with schizophrenia facing the same challenges?