Vyash Puliyadi
postdoctoral fellows
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Research Interests: The lateral entorhinal cortex is one of the major inputs into the hippocampus and appears to particularly vulnerable in both aging and Alzheimer’s disease. In Alzheimer’s disease, there is significant neuronal loss and synaptic loss observed, early in disease progression. Similar findings have been observed in naturally aged Long Evans rat model of aging. In a collaboration with Michela Gallagher, my work in this area focuses on examining the single-unit activity of neurons in the lateral entorhinal cortex to unveil what kinds of information the lateral entorhinal cortex may conveys to the hippocampus and how it may be altered by the structural and molecular changes that occur during aging.