Michael Brecht

Barrel cortex and whisker-mediated behaviors.

Neuroscience. Rules of plasticity.

Nanostimulation: manipulation of single neuron activity by juxtacellular current injection.

Sparse and powerful cortical spikes.

Active touch during shrew prey capture.

Microcircuits of functionally identified neurons in the rat medial entorhinal cortex.

The neurobiology of Etruscan shrew active touch.

Movement, confusion, and orienting in frontal cortices.

Social facial touch in rats.

The many facets of facial interactions in mammals.

Weak and nondiscriminative responses to conspecifics in the rat hippocampus.

Friction-based stabilization of juxtacellular recordings in freely moving rats.

Neuronal communication: firing spikes with spikes.

The representation of social facial touch in rat barrel cortex.

An isomorphic mapping hypothesis of the grid representation.

Grid-layout and theta-modulation of layer 2 pyramidal neurons in medial entorhinal cortex.

Cellular, columnar and modular organization of spatial representations in medial entorhinal cortex.

Spiking irregularity and frequency modulate the behavioral report of single-neuron stimulation.

Deep layer neurons in the rat medial entorhinal cortex fire sparsely irrespective of spatial novelty.

Pyramidal and stellate cell specificity of grid and border representations in layer 2 of medial entorhinal cortex.

Vocalization-whisking coordination and multisensory integration of social signals in rat auditory cortex.

Barrel cortex membrane potential dynamics in social touch.

Conserved size and periodicity of pyramidal patches in layer 2 of medial/caudal entorhinal cortex.

What single-cell stimulation has told us about neural coding.

Anatomical Organization and Spatiotemporal Firing Patterns of Layer 3 Neurons in the Rat Medial Entorhinal Cortex.

Head-Directional Tuning and Theta Modulation of Anatomically Identified Neurons in the Presubiculum.

Sexually Monomorphic Maps and Dimorphic Responses in Rat Genital Cortex.

Functional Architecture of the Rat Parasubiculum.

Structural development and dorsoventral maturation of the medial entorhinal cortex.

Cell Type-Specific Differences in Spike Timing and Spike Shape in the Rat Parasubiculum and Superficial Medial Entorhinal Cortex.

Neural correlates of ticklishness in the rat somatosensory cortex.

The Body Model Theory of Somatosensory Cortex.

Polyploidy and the Cellular and Areal Diversity of Rat Cortical Layer 5 Pyramidal Neurons.