Mohamady El-Gaby
PhD
Research Fellow
Research
I’m interested in how we construct and use internal models to support flexible behaviour. Specifically, I study how neuronal firing and connectivity integrates information from the external world and our internal goals— and how this process can either succeed or fail in generating sophisticated, adaptive behaviours in both the healthy brain and psychiatric conditions.
Education
I completed my undergraduate studies in Biochemistry at the University of Oxford before transitioning to Neuroscience for my MSc at UCL. My growing interest in cognitive neuroscience led me to study synaptic mechanisms of memory formation during my PhD with Ole Paulsen at the University of Cambridge. I then returned to Oxford as a postdoctoral scientist, initially working with David Dupret on hippocampal neuronal dynamics underlying memory, and later with Tim Behrens on the algorithms driving abstraction in the medial prefrontal cortex.
Recent publications
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A cellular basis for mapping behavioural structure.
El-Gaby M. et al, (2024), Nature, 636, 671 - 680
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A Cellular Basis for Mapping Behavioural Structure
El-Gaby M. et al, (2023)
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The shallow cognitive map hypothesis: A hippocampal framework for thought disorder in schizophrenia.
Musa A. et al, (2022), Schizophrenia (Heidelb), 8
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An emergent neural coactivity code for dynamic memory.
El-Gaby M. et al, (2021), Nat Neurosci, 24, 694 - 704
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Integrating new memories into the hippocampal network activity space.
Gava GP. et al, (2021), Nat Neurosci, 24, 326 - 330