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Andreas Lüthi is a researcher affiliated with the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Switzerland. Their work primarily falls within the broad field of Neuroscience, with a focus on several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Molecular Biology, and Neurology.

The main topics Andreas Lüthi investigates encompass Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, Neural dynamics and brain function, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Photoreceptor and optogenetics research, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, and Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms.

Among recent publications, Lüthi has contributed to the following papers:

  • Efficient optogenetic silencing of neurotransmitter release with a mosquito rhodopsin, 2021, Neuron
  • Intercalated amygdala clusters orchestrate a switch in fear state, 2021, Nature
  • Central amygdala micro-circuits mediate fear extinction, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Multimodal mapping of cell types and projections in the central nucleus of the amygdala, 2023, eLife
  • State-dependent encoding of exploratory behaviour in the amygdala, 2021, Nature

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Kenta M. Hagihara
  • Nikolaos Karalis
  • Julian Hinz
  • Mathias Mahn
  • Julien Courtin

Andreas Lüthi commonly publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature, and Science.

Best Publications

  • Neuronal circuits for fear and anxiety

    Philip Tovote;Jonathan Paul Fadok;Andreas Lüthi

  • Switching on and off fear by distinct neuronal circuits

    Cyril Herry;Stephane Ciocchi;Verena Senn;Lynda Demmou

  • Amygdala inhibitory circuits and the control of fear memory.

    Ingrid Ehrlich;Yann Humeau;François Grenier;Stephane Ciocchi

  • Encoding of conditioned fear in central amygdala inhibitory circuits

    Stephane Ciocchi;Cyril Herry;Cyril Herry;François Grenier;Steffen B. E. Wolff

  • Genetic Dissection of an Amygdala Microcircuit That Gates Conditioned Fear

    Wulf Haubensak;Prabhat S. Kunwar;Haijiang Cai;Stephane Ciocchi

  • A disinhibitory microcircuit for associative fear learning in the auditory cortex

    Johannes J. Letzkus;Steffen B. E. Wolff;Steffen B. E. Wolff;Elisabeth M. M. Meyer;Elisabeth M. M. Meyer;Philip Tovote

  • Perineuronal Nets Protect Fear Memories from Erasure

    Nadine Gogolla;Pico Caroni;Andreas Lüthi;Cyril Herry

  • Midbrain circuits for defensive behaviour

    Philip Tovote;Maria Soledad Esposito;Maria Soledad Esposito;Paolo Botta;Fabrice Chaudun

  • Modulation of AMPA receptor unitary conductance by synaptic activity

    Tim A. Benke;Tim A. Benke;Andreas Lüthi;Andreas Lüthi;John T. R. Isaac;Graham L. Collingridge

  • Amygdala interneuron subtypes control fear learning through disinhibition

    Steffen B. E. Wolff;Jan Gründemann;Philip Tovote;Sabine Krabbe

  • Long-range connectivity defines behavioral specificity of amygdala neurons

    Verena Senn;Verena Senn;Steffen B.E. Wolff;Steffen B.E. Wolff;Cyril Herry;François Grenier

  • Neuronal circuits of fear extinction.

    Cyril Herry;Francesco Ferraguti;Nicolas Singewald;Johannes J. Letzkus

  • Hippocampal long-term potentiation and neural cell adhesion molecules L1 and NCAM

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  • Differential sex-independent amygdala response to infant crying and laughing in parents versus nonparents

    Erich Seifritz;Fabrizio Esposito;John G Neuhoff;Andreas Lüthi

  • Processing of Temporal Unpredictability in Human and Animal Amygdala

    Cyril Herry;Dominik R. Bach;Fabrizio Esposito;Francesco Di Salle

  • Dopamine gates LTP induction in lateral amygdala by suppressing feedforward inhibition

    Stephanie Bissière;Yann Humeau;Andreas Lüthi

  • A competitive inhibitory circuit for selection of active and passive fear responses

    Jonathan P. Fadok;Sabine Krabbe;Milica Markovic;Milica Markovic;Julien Courtin

  • Disinhibition, a Circuit Mechanism for Associative Learning and Memory

    Johannes J. Letzkus;Steffen B.E. Wolff;Steffen B.E. Wolff;Steffen B.E. Wolff;Andreas Lüthi

  • Neural ensemble dynamics underlying a long-term associative memory

    Benjamin F. Grewe;Benjamin F. Grewe;Jan Gründemann;Lacey J. Kitch;Lacey J. Kitch;Jerome A. Lecoq;Jerome A. Lecoq

  • Hippocampal LTD expression involves a pool of AMPARs regulated by the NSF-GluR2 interaction.

    Andreas Lüthi;Ramesh Chittajallu;Fabrice Duprat;Mary J Palmer

  • Presynaptic induction of heterosynaptic associative plasticity in the mammalian brain

    Yann Humeau;Hamdy Shaban;Stephanie Bissière;Andreas Lüthi

Frequent Co-Authors

Cyril Herry
Cyril Herry University of Bordeaux
Francesco Ferraguti
Francesco Ferraguti Innsbruck Medical University
Silvia Arber
Silvia Arber University of Basel
Herman van der Putten
Herman van der Putten Novartis (Switzerland)
Mark J. Schnitzer
Mark J. Schnitzer Stanford University
Nicolas Singewald
Nicolas Singewald University of Innsbruck
Beat H. Gähwiler
Beat H. Gähwiler University of Zurich
Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth Stanford University
Ad Aertsen
Ad Aertsen University of Freiburg
Ryuichi Shigemoto
Ryuichi Shigemoto Institute of Science and Technology Austria

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