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Raymundo Baez Mendoza, PhD
Social Neurobiology
+49 551 3851-130
Kellnerweg 4
37077 Göttingen
My main goal is to study the neuronal circuits of normal and abnormal social behavior using neurophysiology and neuronal manipulations in interacting humans and animals.
I was born and raised in Mexico City where I studied Psychology at UNAM -the largest public university in Latin America. I then studied my masters with Nikos Logothetis and Kari Hoffman at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany. followed by PhD Studies at Cambridge University working under the supervision of Wolfram Schultz. Where I studied how the basal ganglia responds to rewards in social contexts.
I did my Postdoc with Ziv Williams at the Department of Neurosurgery of Massachusetts General Hospital to uncover the neuronal basis of social interactions. From 2018 until my move to the DPZ in 2022, I was an instructor in research at MGH, where I co-mentored two postdocs, four graduate- and six undergraduate students.
I’ve published my academic work in Science, Nature, Cell, PNAS, and others.
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Society for Neuroscience
Society for Social Neuroscience
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2022 |
S. W. Li, O. Zeliger, L. Strahs, R. Báez-Mendoza, L. M. Johnson, A. McDonald Wojciechowski, Z. M. Williams. A prefrontal mechanism linking social group dominance with competitive success. Nature 2022 Mar 16. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04000-5. Online ahead of print. |
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2021 |
S. W. Li, Z. M. Williams, R. Báez-Mendoza. Investigating the neurobiology of abnormal social behaviors. Frontiers in Neural Circuits. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2021.769314 |
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R. Báez-Mendoza*, E. P. Mastrobattista, A. J. Wang, Z M. Williams. Social Agent Identity Cells in the Prefrontal Cortex of Interacting Groups of Primates Science. 274, 6566, eabb4149. doi:10.1126/science.abb4149 |
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R. Báez-Mendoza*, Y. Vázquez*, E. Mastrobattista, Z. M. Williams. Neuronal circuits for social decision-making and their clinical implications Frontiers in Neuroscience. 15(1291) doi:10.3389/fnins.2021.720294 |
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M. Jamali, B. L. Grannan, E. Fedorenko, R. Saxe, R. Báez-Mendoza, Z. M. Williams. Single-neuronal predictions of others’ beliefs in humans. Nature. 591, 610-614.10.1038/s41586-021-03184-0 |
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S Ferrari-Toniolo, PM Bujold, F Grabenhorst, R Báez-Mendoza, W Schultz Nonhuman Primates Satisfy Utility Maximization in Compliance with the Continuity Axiom of Expected Utility Theory. Journal of Neuroscience. 41 (13), 2964-2979. 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0955-20.2020 |
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2019 |
F Grabenhorst, R Báez-Mendoza, W Genest, G Deco, W Schultz. Primate amygdala neurons simulate decision processes of social partners. Cell. 177: 1-13. 10.1016/j.cell.2019.02.042 |
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2016 |
R. Báez-Mendoza and W. Schultz. Performance error-related activity in monkey striatum during social interactions. Sci. Rep. 37199. 10.1038/srep37199 |
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2016 |
R. Báez-Mendoza, C.R. van Coeverden and W. Schultz. A neuronal reward inequity signal in primate striatum. J. Neurophysiol. 115: 68-79. 10.1152/jn.00321.2015 |
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2013 |
R. Báez-Mendoza and W. Schultz. The role of the striatum in social behaviour. Front. Neurosci. 7:233. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00233 |
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2013 |
R. Báez-Mendoza, C. Harris and W. Schultz. Activity of striatal neurons reflects social action and own reward. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 110:41, 16634:16639 |
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A prefrontal mechanism linking social group dominance with competitive success.
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