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Overview

Alex M. Thomson is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines, with primary focus areas in Neuroscience and Physics and Astronomy. Within these fields, their subfields of study include Cognitive Neuroscience, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Materials Chemistry, and Condensed Matter Physics.

Thomson's work covers main topics such as Graphene research and applications, Quantum and electron transport phenomena, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Neural dynamics and brain function, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism, and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures.

Their publication record includes contributions to various high-impact venues, reflecting interdisciplinary expertise. Frequent publication venues for Thomson are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Hippocampus
  • Frontiers in Neural Circuits
  • PLoS Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent papers by Alex M. Thomson include:

  • Data-driven integration of hippocampal CA1 synaptic physiology in silico, 2020, Hippocampus
  • Circuits and Synapses: Hypothesis, Observation, Controversy and Serendipity - An Opinion Piece, 2021, Frontiers in Neural Circuits
  • Community-based reconstruction and simulation of a full-scale model of the rat hippocampus CA1 region, 2024, PLoS Biology
  • Tracing out Correlated Chern Insulators in Magic Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Community-based Reconstruction and Simulation of a Full-scale Model of Region CA1 of Rat Hippocampus, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Alex M. Thomson has collaborated frequently with several researchers, indicating a strong network in their research areas. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Cyprian Lewandowski
  • Jason Alicea
  • Stevan Nadj-Perge
  • András Ecker
  • Armando Romani

Best Publications

  • Petilla terminology: nomenclature of features of GABAergic interneurons of the cerebral cortex

    Giorgio A. Ascoli;Lidia Alonso-Nanclares;Stewart A. Anderson;German Barrionuevo

  • New insights into the classification and nomenclature of cortical GABAergic interneurons

    Javier DeFelipe;Pedro L. López-Cruz;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Concha Bielza

  • Interlaminar connections in the neocortex.

    Alex M. Thomson;A. Peter Bannister

  • Functional maps of neocortical local circuitry.

    Alex M. Thomson;Christophe Lamy

  • Synaptic Connections and Small Circuits Involving Excitatory and Inhibitory Neurons in Layers 2–5 of Adult Rat and Cat Neocortex: Triple Intracellular Recordings and Biocytin Labelling In Vitro

    Alex M. Thomson;David C. West;Yun Wang;A. Peter Bannister

  • Facilitation, augmentation and potentiation at central synapses.

    Alex M. Thomson

  • Temporal and spatial properties of local circuits in neocortex

    Alex M. Thomson;Jim Deuchars

  • Synaptic interactions in neocortical local circuits: dual intracellular recordings in vitro.

    A M Thomson;J Deuchars

  • An N-methylaspartate receptor-mediated synapse in rat cerebral cortex: a site of action of ketamine?

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  • Activity‐dependent properties of synaptic transmission at two classes of connections made by rat neocortical pyramidal axons in vitro

    Alex M. Thomson

  • Large, deep layer pyramid-pyramid single axon EPSPs in slices of rat motor cortex display paired pulse and frequency-dependent depression, mediated presynaptically and self-facilitation, mediated postsynaptically.

    A. M. Thomson;J. Deuchars;D. C. West

  • Neocortical Layer 6: A Review

    Alex M Thomson

  • Glycine enhances NMDA-receptor mediated synaptic potentials in neocortical slices

    Alex M. Thomson;V. E. Walker;Diana M. Flynn

  • CA1 pyramid-pyramid connections in rat hippocampus in vitro: Dual intracellular recordings with biocytin filling

    J. Deuchars;A.M. Thomson

  • Physiological and morphological diversity of immunocytochemically defined parvalbumin- and cholecystokinin-positive interneurones in CA1 of the adult rat hippocampus

    Hannelore Pawelzik;David I. Hughes;Alex M. Thomson

  • Single axon IPSPs elicited in pyramidal cells by three classes of interneurones in slices of rat neocortex.

    A M Thomson;D C West;J Hahn;J Deuchars

  • Ivy Cells: A Population of Nitric-Oxide-Producing, Slow-Spiking GABAergic Neurons and Their Involvement in Hippocampal Network Activity

    Pablo Fuentealba;Rahima Begum;Marco Capogna;Shozo Jinno;Shozo Jinno

  • Facilitating pyramid to horizontal oriens-alveus interneurone inputs: dual intracellular recordings in slices of rat hippocampus

    Afia B. Ali;Alex M. Thomson

  • CA1 pyramidal to basket and bistratified cell EPSPs: dual intracellular recordings in rat hippocampal slices.

    Afia B. Ali;Jim Deuchars;Hannelore Pawelzik;Alex M. Thomson

  • Single axon excitatory postsynaptic potentials in neocortical interneurons exhibit pronounced paired pulse facilitation

    A.M. Thomson;J. Deuchars;D.C. West

  • Glycine is a coagonist at the NMDA receptor/channel complex.

    Alex M. Thomson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jim Deuchars
Jim Deuchars University of Leeds
Henry Markram
Henry Markram École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Michele Migliore
Michele Migliore National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Thomas Klausberger
Thomas Klausberger Medical University of Vienna
Kathleen S. Rockland
Kathleen S. Rockland Boston University
Javier DeFelipe
Javier DeFelipe Technical University of Madrid
Rafael Yuste
Rafael Yuste Columbia University
Yasuo Kawaguchi
Yasuo Kawaguchi The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI
György Buzsáki
György Buzsáki New York University

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