Contact details
- Email a.u.vadher@stir.ac.uk
About me
I completed my undergraduate in Psychology from the Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV in 2020, and later I graduated with a research master's degree in Integrative Neuroscience from the University of Edinburgh in 2021.
During my master's degree, I was based in Prof. Matthew Nolan's Lab where I worked in the domain of spatial cognition in mice, more specifically with grid cells - a position encoding cell found in the medial entorhinal cortex with discrete firing fields forming a regularly repeating triangular grid-like pattern. I am primarily interested in the neural circuitry of navigation and memory.
For my PhD project, I am studying spatial cognition in rat models of autism/intellectual disability (ASD/ID) in the Wood/Dudchenko Lab in Edinburgh, jointly run by Prof. Dudchenko (Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV) and Dr. Wood (Edinburgh). We study spatial cognition in rats using various spatial memory related tasks as well as the head direction circuits.