The SOCIAL (Study of Circuits in Adolescent life) lab led by Dr. Verpeut studies the development of neural circuits and structure in early life through aging to understand the brain and behavior. The lab specifically focuses on long distance neural circuits from the cerebellar cortex involved in social and flexible behavior. We are interested in understanding sensitive periods of neural development and how circuits encode behavior. Using neural manipulation techniques the lab studies neural structure maturation, long-distance neural circuits, whole-brain activity, and machine learning to understand freely moving behavior.