{"id":23858,"date":"2013-05-15T12:05:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T16:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=23858"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:36:47","slug":"helen-barbas-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/profile\/helen-barbas-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Barbas, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Helen Barbas is a professor in Sargent College&#8217;s Department of Health Sciences and Programs in Human Physiology. She also holds the titles of Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Boston University School of Medicine, and Lecturer in Neurology at Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n<p>She is the Lab Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neural\/\">Neural Systems Laboratory<\/a> at Sargent College, which researches the organization of the prefrontal cortex and its role in central executive functions in primates. The goal is to investigate prefrontal pathways that interface with both excitatory and inhibitory neurons in cortical and subcortical structures that may provide the basis for the selection of relevant information and suppression of irrelevant information in behavior.<\/p>\n<h2>Publications<\/h2>\n<p><span> Lists of published works: <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar?hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C22&amp;q=helen+barbas&amp;btnG=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Scholar\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>Lists of published works: <a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0825-0832\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ORCID<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7302,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7302"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86072,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23858\/revisions\/86072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}