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Published in Nature Neuroscience, 2026
Discovered distinct dopamine circuits that govern the recovery of true memories and the generation of false memories from forgotten information in Drosophila.
Recommended citation: Yang, W., Pavao-Delgado, M., Warnecke, C., Coban, B., Zattera, B., Felsenberg, J. (2026). Creating true and false memories from forgotten information in Drosophila. Nature Neuroscience (Accepted).
Published in Nature npj Digital Medicine (In Revision), 2026
Scalable digital assessment approach for evaluating hypotension symptom burden anchored to blood pressure responses in spinal cord injury.
Recommended citation: Yang, W., et al. (2026). Scalable digital assessment of hypotension symptom burden anchored to blood pressure responses in spinal cord injury. Nature npj Digital Medicine (In Revision).
Published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2019
Demonstrate that higher visual contrast between the conditioned stimuli and the background can induce more significant operant learning responses
Recommended citation: Yang, W., Meng, Y., Li, D., & Wen, Q. (2019). Visual contrast modulates operant learning responses in larval zebrafish. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 13, 4. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00004/full
Published in eLife, 2017
We developed a new imaging technique that can monitor the whole-brain activity in freely swimmning larval zebrafish
Recommended citation: Cong, L., Wang, Z., Chai, Y., Hang, W., Shang, C., Yang, W., ... & Wen, Q. (2017). Rapid whole brain imaging of neural activity in freely behaving larval zebrafish (Danio rerio). Elife, 6, e28158. https://elifesciences.org/articles/28158