Bernard Bloem, PhD

Senior Research Scientist

Bernard Bloem has an extensive background in electrophysiology and systems neuroscience. He received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam where he studied the neural basis of cognition in rodents, focusing on the role of dopaminergic and cholinergic modulation of circuits in the basal ganglia and prefrontal cortex. During his postdoctoral work at MIT in Dr. Ann Graybiel’s lab, he developed a new behavioral task and computational model to study how striatal circuits estimate expectations about positive and negative outcomes of actions and he developed a novel preparation for imaging striatal compartments in behaving animals.