Neurobiologist interested in spatial cognition and navigation
Research director at INSERM
Team leader "Neuronal mechanisms of spatial cognition" at INMED in Marseille
Jerome Epsztein
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Beautiful view from the beach in Cassis this morning
Always nice to receive a hard copy of a textbook you contributed to and not always the case I find the cover’s illustration beautiful thanks Nicolas Wanaverbecq, @ianduguid.bsky.social and Annalisa Scimemi for huge editorial work
Ever wonder how your brain navigates the real world? 🧠
Most spatial navigation studies use flat, 2D mazes.
But the real world is hilly, irregular, and bumpy! ⛰️
Our new paper in #ScienceAdvances asked a simple question: How does the brain map uneven terrain?
📄 doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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Be still my beating heart! Super interesting and important. The Mosers show that when rats switch between familiar rooms, each grid module shifts phase independently — and that differential shift across modules drives global remapping in hippocampal place cells.
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.24.677985
A study in Nature Neuroscience shows that core benefits of sleep—reduced local sleep pressure, renormalized synaptic strength and memory consolidation—can be reproduced in awake, behaving mice by inducing sleep-like on/off activity patterns in cortex. #Neuroskyence 🧪
