Laura Cocas, PhD
Assistant Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

Grants and Projects

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• Role of Neuronal Activity in Neuronal-Glial Connectivity and Myelination, NIH, 2018-2021
• Genetic Interactions at the Cortical Striatal Border, NIH, 2007-2011

Publications (12)

Top publication keywords:
Limbic SystemPresynaptic TerminalsEye ProteinsMicrotubule-Associated ProteinsAptitudeChoristomaPsychology, ChildConnectomeAmygdalaNeuronsHomeodomain ProteinsRabies virusPaired Box Transcription FactorsMathematicsOligodendrocyte Precursor Cells

• Shh from mossy cells contributes to preventing NSC pool depletion after seizure-induced neurogenesis and in aging.
  eLife 2023 Noguchi H, Arela JC, Ngo T, Cocas L, Pleasure S
• Neuronal Activity Changes the Number of Neurons That Are Synaptically Connected to OPCs.
  eNeuro 2023 Moura D, Parvathaneni A, Sahagun A, Noguchi H, Garcia J, Brennan E, Brock R, Tilton I, Halladay L, Pleasure S, Cocas L
• Shh from mossy cells contributes to preventing NSC pool depletion after seizure-induced neurogenesis and in aging.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023 Noguchi H, Arela JC, Ngo TT, Cocas L, Pleasure SJ
• Neuron to Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cell Synapses: Protagonists in Oligodendrocyte Development and Myelination, and Targets for Therapeutics.
  Frontiers in neuroscience 2022 Moura DMS, Brennan EJ, Brock R, Cocas LA
• Monosynaptic Tracing in Developing Circuits Using Modified Rabies Virus.
  Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2017 Cocas L, Fernandez G

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• Cell Type-Specific Circuit Mapping Reveals the Presynaptic Connectivity of Developing Cortical Circuits.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2016 Cocas LA, Fernandez G, Barch M, Doll J, Zamora Diaz I, Pleasure SJ
• Wrong place, wrong time: ectopic progenitors cause cortical heterotopias.
  Nature neuroscience 2014 Cocas L, Pleasure SJ
• Pax6 is required at the telencephalic pallial-subpallial boundary for the generation of neuronal diversity in the postnatal limbic system.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2011 Cocas LA, Georgala PA, Mangin JM, Clegg JM, Kessaris N, Haydar TF, Gallo V, Price DJ, Corbin JG
• Emx1-lineage progenitors differentially contribute to neural diversity in the striatum and amygdala.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2009 Cocas LA, Miyoshi G, Carney RS, Sousa VH, Hirata T, Jones KR, Fishell G, Huntsman MM, Corbin JG
• Identification of distinct telencephalic progenitor pools for neuronal diversity in the amygdala.
  Nature neuroscience 2009 Hirata T, Li P, Lanuza GM, Cocas LA, Huntsman MM, Corbin JG
• Differential regulation of telencephalic pallial-subpallial boundary patterning by Pax6 and Gsh2.
  Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2008 Carney RS, Cocas LA, Hirata T, Mansfield K, Corbin JG
• Perception precedes computation: can familiarity preferences explain apparent calculation by human babies?
  Developmental psychology 2006 Moore DS, Cocas LA