@c_constan

Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience. Neural basis of cognition, cognitive development, deep brain stimulation.

 Nashville, USA
lab.vanderbilt.edu/constantinidis-lab/home/
Joined October 2010
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Very excited to announce that my textbook on “Working Memory” is now available for pre-order! shop.elsevier.com/books/work… A few thoughts
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Wonderful work by our collaborator Daniel Gonzales. His PhD student Daniel Woods was the driving force behind the project. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Repeatable, low-drift recordings in behaving nonhuman primates using flexible microelectrodes

Nature Communications - Stable single-neuron recordings are essential for understanding brain function and enabling future neurotechnologies. Here, the authors demonstrate that flexible polymer...

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Very deserving - though, unavoidably, some with important contributions could not be included.
The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrizeOct 5
BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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Jesus Ramirez-Bermudez@JRBneuropsiqSep 30
Replying to @JulioMTNeuro
@JulioMTNeuro et al: "Within the framework of dynamical systems & representational geometry, mental representations may emerge from the coordinated dynamics of distributed cortical & subcortical neuronal populations that represent information in low-dimensional spaces. Sensory &
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Great. The heat dome is centered on Tennessee.
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@washingtonpostSep 16
A powerful heat dome — which will become the strongest on the planet Wednesday — will tower 3.7 miles above Tennessee, drawing extreme heat and humidity into the central U.S. “I don’t even know what to say anymore,” meteorologist Pete Delkus said. wapo.st/4jaYqKK

It’s almost fall, but this record heat dome didn’t get the memo

The strongest heat dome on the planet will soon tower 3.7 miles above Tennessee, drawing extreme heat and humidity into the central United States from the Gulf of Mexico.

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The Washington Post
@washingtonpostSep 16
A powerful heat dome — which will become the strongest on the planet Wednesday — will tower 3.7 miles above Tennessee, drawing extreme heat and humidity into the central U.S. “I don’t even know what to say anymore,” meteorologist Pete Delkus said. wapo.st/4jaYqKK

It’s almost fall, but this record heat dome didn’t get the memo

The strongest heat dome on the planet will soon tower 3.7 miles above Tennessee, drawing extreme heat and humidity into the central United States from the Gulf of Mexico.

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Navy Failed to Protect Pilots From Brain Injury, House Report Says nytimes.com/2026/09/08/us/na…

House Rebukes Navy for Refusing to Investigate Pilot Brain Injury

A scathing report issued by the House Oversight Committee blamed the Navy for not doing more to protect pilots, and recommended that Congress pass legislation to study and treat aviators.

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Dimitris Papailiopoulos
@DimitrisPapailAug 8

AI Settles a 25 Year-old Problem We Left Behind

Article · @DimitrisPapail
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Jianxun Ren@DavidRen555Aug 5
Honored to be named the runner-up for the Science & PINS Prize for Neuromodulation, with my essay now published by @ScienceMagazine. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… The essay lays out how mapping the brain's functional circuits lets us move brain stim. from deep toward the brain surface.
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Science Magazine
@ScienceMagazineAug 4
🎉 Congratulations to Jan Elaine Soriano, winner of the 2026 Science & PINS Prize for Neuromodulation for work that could prevent blood pressure crises after spinal cord injury. Learn more: scim.ag/4pVd6zf
Jan Elaine Soriano

ALT Jan Elaine Soriano

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Salma Kaochar
@Kaochar2Aug 5
🚨🚨Justification for animal model usage must be included in the application’s Abstract section now! New Guidance on Studies with Animal Models - NCI cancer.gov/grants-training/n…

Guidance on Studies with Animal Models

Read NCI Director Anthony Letai’s guidance on grant applications using animal models, including what applicants should address in abstracts.

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Michelle Hackman@MHackmanJul 30
NEW from me: The Trump administration is weighing attaching a $100,000 fee to optional practical training, the program that allows international students to work on their student visas for a time after graduation. Gift link: wsj.com/politics/policy/u-s-…

Exclusive | U.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation

The proposed policy would particularly affect Silicon Valley, Wall Street and universities.

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Watching the Odyssey with the lab
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@__alpoge__Jul 20
hello there the jacobian conjecture is false thanx to my close friend akhil for asking about it and my other close friend fable for working during the world cup final ((1+xy)^3 z + y^2 (1+xy) (4+3xy), y + 3 x (1+xy)^2 z + 3 x y^2 (4+3xy), 2 x - 3 x^2 y - x^3 z): \C^3\to \C^3, has jacobian determinant -2, and sends (0, 0, -1/4), (1, -3/2, 13/2), and (-1, 3/2, 13/2) to (-1/4, 0, 0)
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Massimo
@Rainmaker1973Jul 12
This is called the the bulging checkerboard illusion.
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Brief illness. The scourge of our time.
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Wonderful to host Dr. @RSawagashira in Vanderbilt and hear about his research. His gifts from Japan were greatly appreciated, too!
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Hua Tang@hua_ibrainJun 28
The 1st ever preprint from the Tang Lab! 🥳 Our results show that, after overlearning, value processing shifts from the ventral striatum to the orbitofrontal cortex, moving from stimulus value to abstract state value representations. doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.24.… @biorxiv_neursci
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Takei Lab@LabTakeiJun 23
Biological Psychiatry Available online 19 June 2026 Distinctive molecular mechanisms in higher cortical circuits confer vulnerability to mental disorders sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Anne Churchland@anne_churchlandJun 18
Excited to share this from my lab. Aging brains are an untapped resource for the AI community: biology has been stress-testing neural circuits since time began. What breaks, what holds & why? The answers could reshape how we build robust AI. 🧠
UCLA Neuroscience Theme
@UCLANeuroThemeJun 18
The #AI field is obsessed with making neural networks more efficient and robust. Biology ran this experiment over millions of years & we call it aging. A new perspective paper argues that aging brains, far from being just a story of decline, are a powerful testbed for theories of neural computation. How does a decision-making circuit stay flexible when its biological substrate is changing? Answering that question matters for longevity science, AI robustness, & understanding what makes brains so different from the networks we build. The tools are finally ready. 🧠 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Jiannis Taxidis@JiannisTaxJun 9
🧵 Thrilled to share our new paper, just out in @NatureComms! 🎉 BTSP is known to rapidly form place cellsin hippocampal CA1 via plateau potentials. Here, we found that BTSP isn't just for spatial maps. It works for non-spatial information too! 🧠⬇️ 📄doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-7…

Rapid formation of non-spatial hippocampal representations consistent with behavioral timescale...

Nature Communications - Spatial representations in the hippocampus can rapidly form through behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity. Here authors show rapid formation of non-spatial olfactory...

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