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Overview

Alain Destexhe is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research work is primarily situated within the field of Neuroscience, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience as well as Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. The scope of their studies also spans Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The main topics explored in their scientific endeavors include:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Stochastic dynamics and bifurcation
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering

Destexhe has contributed to numerous publications across several prominent venues. The most frequent publication platforms are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Computational Neuroscience
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • eNeuro

Among recent papers by or involving Destexhe, the following stand out:

  • A comprehensive neural simulation of slow-wave sleep and highly responsive wakefulness dynamics, 2023, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
  • Conductance-Based Adaptive Exponential Integrate-and-Fire Model, 2020, Neural Computation
  • Modeling the relationship between neuronal activity and the BOLD signal: contributions from astrocyte calcium dynamics, 2023, Scientific Reports
  • Modeling seizures: From single neurons to networks, 2021, Seizure
  • Local orchestration of distributed functional patterns supporting loss and restoration of consciousness in the primate brain, 2024, Nature Communications

Destexhe frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Viktor Jirsa
  • Federico Tesler
  • Damien Depannemaecker
  • Rodrigo Cofré
  • Maria V. Sánchez-Vives

Best Publications

  • The high-conductance state of neocortical neurons in vivo.

    Alain Destexhe;Michael Rudolph;Denis Paré

  • Low-dimensional chaos in an instance of epilepsy.

    Agnessa Babloyantz;Alain Destexhe

  • Simulation of networks of spiking neurons: A review of tools and strategies

    Romain Brette;Michelle Rudolph;Ted Carnevale;Michael L. Hines

  • Fluctuating synaptic conductances recreate in vivo-like activity in neocortical neurons.

    Alain Destexhe;Michael Rudolph;J.-M. Fellous;Terrence J. Sejnowski;Terrence J. Sejnowski

  • Impact of Network Activity on the Integrative Properties of Neocortical Pyramidal Neurons In Vivo

    Alain Destexhe;Denis Paré

  • Synthesis of Models for Excitable Membranes, Synaptic Transmission and Neuromodulation Using a Common Kinetic Formalism

    Alain Destexhe;Zachary F. Mainen;Terrence J. Sejnowski;Terrence J. Sejnowski

  • Spatiotemporal analysis of local field potentials and unit discharges in cat cerebral cortex during natural wake and sleep states.

    Alain Destexhe;Diego Contreras;Mircea Steriade

  • Why do we sleep

    Terrence J. Sejnowski;Alain Destexhe

  • An efficient method for computing synaptic conductances based on a kinetic model of receptor binding

    A. Destexhe;Z. F. Mainen;T. J. Sejnowski

  • Control of Spatiotemporal Coherence of a Thalamic Oscillation by Corticothalamic Feedback

    Diego Contreras;Alain Destexhe;Terrence J. Sejnowski;Mircea Steriade

  • Kinetic Models of Synaptic Transmission

    Alain Destexhe

  • Is the normal heart a periodic oscillator

    A. Babloyantz;A. Destexhe

  • Impact of Spontaneous Synaptic Activity on the Resting Properties of Cat Neocortical Pyramidal Neurons In Vivo

    Denis Paré;Eric Shink;Hélène Gaudreau;Alain Destexhe

  • Ionic mechanisms underlying synchronized oscillations and propagating waves in a model of ferret thalamic slices

    A. Destexhe;T. Bal;D. A. McCormick;T. J. Sejnowski

  • Does the 1/f frequency-scaling of brain signals reflect self-organized critical states ?

    C. Bédard;C. Bédard;H. Kröger;A. Destexhe

  • Mechanisms Underlying the Synchronizing Action of Corticothalamic Feedback Through Inhibition of Thalamic Relay Cells

    Alain Destexhe;Diego Contreras;Mircea Steriade

  • A model of spindle rhythmicity in the isolated thalamic reticular nucleus

    A. Destexhe;D. Contreras;T. J. Sejnowski;M. Steriade

  • Dendritic Low-Threshold Calcium Currents in Thalamic Relay Cells

    Alain Destexhe;Mike Neubig;Daniel Ulrich;John Huguenard

  • Modeling extracellular field potentials and the frequency-filtering properties of extracellular space.

    Claude Bédard;Helmut Kröger;Alain Destexhe

  • Are corticothalamic UP states fragments of wakefulness

    Alain Destexhe;Stuart W. Hughes;Michelle Rudolph;Vincenzo Crunelli

  • Spatiotemporal Patterns of Spindle Oscillations in Cortex and Thalamus

    Diego Contreras;Alain Destexhe;Terrence J. Sejnowski;Mircea Steriade

Frequent Co-Authors

Thierry Bal
Thierry Bal Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Terrence J. Sejnowski
Terrence J. Sejnowski Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Yves Frégnac
Yves Frégnac Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Eric Halgren
Eric Halgren University of California, San Diego
Sydney S. Cash
Sydney S. Cash Harvard University
Mircea Steriade
Mircea Steriade Université Laval
Maria V. Sanchez-Vives
Maria V. Sanchez-Vives Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Denis Paré
Denis Paré Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Gaute T. Einevoll
Gaute T. Einevoll Norwegian University of Life Sciences

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