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Patrick LaChance, PhD

Postdoctoral Associate

Boston University College of Arts and Sciences

Psychological and Brain Sciences

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Dr. LaChance is studying neural basis of spatial cognition.

BU Research

Thalamocortical Circuits Governing Egocentric-Allocentric Spatial Reference Frame Transformations
09/30/2024 - 09/29/2027 (PI)
NIH/National Institute of Mental Health
5F32MH139270-02

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Hasselmo ME, LaChance PA, Robinson JC. Internal and external codes for location. Nat Neurosci. 2025 Oct; 28(10):2009-2010.View Related Profiles.

Hasselmo, Michael
LaChance, Patrick

PMID: 40859028

LaChance PA, Gross ER, Sankaranarayanan S, Hasselmo ME. Cortical dissociation of spatial reference frames during place navigation. bioRxiv. 2025 Jun 29.View Related Profiles.

Hasselmo, Michael
LaChance, Patrick

PMID: 40667123; PMCID: PMC12262825; DOI: 10.1101/2025.06.25.661569;

LaChance PA, Winter SS, Taube JS. Translational differentiation of vertically displaced surfaces by grid cells. Curr Biol. 2025 May 19; 35(10):2379-2390.e5. PMID: 40328254; PMCID: PMC12118813; DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.036;

Hasselmo ME, Robinson JC, LaChance PA. Navigation: Scanning your future path. Curr Biol. 2025 Feb 24; 35(4):R141-R143.View Related Profiles.

Hasselmo, Michael
LaChance, Patrick

PMID: 39999782; PMCID: PMC12520629; DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.09.017;

Hasselmo ME, LaChance PA, Robinson JC, Malmberg SL, Patel M, Gross E, Everett DE, Sankaranarayanan S, Fang J. How does the response of egocentric boundary cells depend upon the coordinate system of environmental features? bioRxiv. 2025 Feb 06.View Related Profiles.

Hasselmo, Michael
LaChance, Patrick

PMID: 39974880; PMCID: PMC11838506; DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.03.636060;

Jiang S, Hijazi S, Sarkany B, Gautsch VG, LaChance PA, Hasselmo ME, Bannerman D, Viney TJ. Pathological tau alters head direction signaling and induces spatial disorientation. bioRxiv. 2024 Nov 08.View Related Profiles.

Hasselmo, Michael
LaChance, Patrick

PMID: 39574637; PMCID: PMC11581017; DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.07.622548;

Lian Y, LaChance PA, Malmberg S, Hasselmo ME, Burkitt AN. Distinct cortical spatial representations learned along disparate visual pathways. bioRxiv. 2024 Oct 12.View Related Profiles.

Hasselmo, Michael
LaChance, Patrick

PMID: 39416183; PMCID: PMC11482955; DOI: 10.1101/2024.10.10.617687;

LaChance PA, Hasselmo ME. Distinct codes for environment structure and symmetry in postrhinal and retrosplenial cortices. Nat Commun. 2024 Sep 13; 15(1):8025.View Related Profiles.

Hasselmo, Michael
LaChance, Patrick

PMID: 39271679; PMCID: PMC11399390; DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52315-4;

LaChance PA, Taube JS. The Anterior Thalamus Preferentially Drives Allocentric But Not Egocentric Orientation Tuning in Postrhinal Cortex. J Neurosci. 2024 Mar 06; 44(10). PMID: 38286624; PMCID: PMC10919204; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0861-23.2024;

Clark BJ, LaChance PA, Winter SS, Mehlman ML, Butler W, LaCour A, Taube JS. Comparison of head direction cell firing characteristics across thalamo-parahippocampal circuitry. Hippocampus. 2024 Apr; 34(4):168-196. PMID: 38178693; PMCID: PMC10950528; DOI: 10.1002/hipo.23596;

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Graham JA, Dumont JR, Winter SS, Brown JE, LaChance PA, Amon CC, Farnes KB, Morris AJ, Streltzov NA, Taube JS. Angular Head Velocity Cells within Brainstem Nuclei Projecting to the Head Direction Circuit. J Neurosci. 2023 Dec 06; 43(49):8403-8424. PMID: 37871964; PMCID: PMC10711713; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0581-23.2023;

LaChance PA, Taube JS. Geometric determinants of the postrhinal egocentric spatial map. Curr Biol. 2023 May 08; 33(9):1728-1743.e7. PMID: 37075750; PMCID: PMC10210053; DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.03.066;

Graham JA, Dumont JR, Winter SS, Brown JE, LaChance PA, Amon CC, Farnes KB, Morris AJ, Streltzov NA, Taube JS. Angular head velocity cells within brainstem nuclei projecting to the head direction circuit. bioRxiv. 2023 Mar 31. PMID: 37034640; PMCID: PMC10081164; DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.29.534808;

LaChance PA, Taube JS. A model for transforming egocentric views into goal-directed behavior. Hippocampus. 2023 May; 33(5):488-504. PMID: 36780179; PMCID: PMC12292450; DOI: 10.1002/hipo.23510;

LaChance PA, Taube JS. Spatial context and the functional role of the postrhinal cortex. Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2022 Mar; 189:107596. PMID: 35131453; PMCID: PMC8897231; DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2022.107596;

LaChance PA, Graham J, Shapiro BL, Morris AJ, Taube JS. Landmark-modulated directional coding in postrhinal cortex. Sci Adv. 2022 Jan 28; 8(4):eabg8404. PMID: 35089792; PMCID: PMC8797796; DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abg8404;

LaChance PA, Dumont JR, Ozel P, Marcroft JL, Taube JS. Commutative Properties of Head Direction Cells during Locomotion in 3D: Are All Routes Equal? J Neurosci. 2020 Apr 08; 40(15):3035-3051. PMID: 32127493; PMCID: PMC7141881; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2789-19.2020;

LaChance PA, Todd TP, Taube JS. A sense of space in postrhinal cortex. Science. 2019 Jul 12; 365(6449). PMID: 31296737; PMCID: PMC7063980; DOI: 10.1126/science.aax4192;

Goodwill HL, Manzano-Nieves G, LaChance P, Teramoto S, Lin S, Lopez C, Stevenson RJ, Theyel BB, Moore CI, Connors BW, Bath KG. Early Life Stress Drives Sex-Selective Impairment in Reversal Learning by Affecting Parvalbumin Interneurons in Orbitofrontal Cortex of Mice. Cell Rep. 2018 Nov 27; 25(9):2299-2307.e4. PMID: 30485800; PMCID: PMC6310486; DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.11.010;

This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown, or last author.

Bar chart showing 19 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2024 and 2025

Bar chart showing 19 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2024 and 2025

Year	Publications
2018	1
2019	1
2020	1
2022	2
2023	4
2024	5
2025	5

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