Megha Sehgal
Neuroscience · The Ohio State University
Publications
19
Citations
869
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
14
Publishing since 2012
Megha Sehgal's research investigates how the brain forms and stores memories, controls behaviors like feeding and escape from threats, and how stress can disrupt goal-directed behavior in favor of habits. This work combines circuit-level neuroscience (tracing specific brain pathways) with development of advanced imaging tools, such as miniature microscopes for observing brain activity in freely moving animals. Much of this research uses mouse models to study brain regions and circuits involved in memory, motivation, and stress responses.
Publication output has been variable but has increased in recent years, with a notable rise in output from 2023 to 2025 after a gap in 2020 and 2022.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- A dual-pathway architecture for stress to disrupt agency and promote habit
Nature · 2025
- Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time
Nature Neuroscience · 2025
- Open-source, high performance miniature 2-photon microscopy systems for freely behaving animals
Nature Communications · 2025
- Control of feeding by a bottom-up midbrain-subthalamic pathway
Nature Communications · 2024
- Open-source, high performance miniature multiphoton microscopy systems for freely behaving animals
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2024
- Miniscope-LFOV: A large-field-of-view, single-cell-resolution, miniature microscope for wired and wire-free imaging of neural dynamics in freely behaving animals
Science Advances · 2023
- A dual-pathway architecture enables chronic stress to disrupt agency and promote habit formation
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2023
- Dorsal premammillary projection to periaqueductal gray controls escape vigor from innate and conditioned threats
eLife · 2021
- Miniscope-LFOV: A large field of view, single cell resolution, miniature microscope for wired and wire-free imaging of neural dynamics in freely behaving animals
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2021
- Dorsal premammillary projection to periaqueductal gray controls escape vigor from innate and conditioned threats
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2021
- Author response: Dorsal premammillary projection to periaqueductal gray controls escape vigor from innate and conditioned threats
2021
- Modulation of intrinsic excitability as a function of learning within the fear conditioning circuit
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory · 2019
- Memory formation depends on both synapse-specific modifications of synaptic strength and cell-specific increases in excitability
Nature Neuroscience · 2018
- Allocating, Tagging, and Linking Memories
Elsevier eBooks · 2017
- Author response: CCR5 is a suppressor for cortical plasticity and hippocampal learning and memory
2016
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×4
- Nature Neuroscience×2
- Nature Communications×2
- Science Advances×1
- Nature×1
- Norbert Hájos
Neuroscience · Indiana University
- Gonzalo Viana Di Prisco
Neuroscience · Indiana University
- Manoj K. Gottipati
Neuroscience · The Ohio State University
- Jiaxiang Wu
Neuroscience · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Mohammad Majidi
Neuroscience · Purdue University West Lafayette
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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