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Overview

Attila Losonczy is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has concentrated research efforts primarily in the field of Neuroscience. Their work spans various subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Biophysics, and Neurology.

The scientist's research topics encompass a broad range of areas relevant to brain function and neural mechanisms. These include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications, and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering.

Losonczy's publication record includes significant contributions to both the academic literature and collaborative research, with frequent publications in multiple venues. The most common publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Neuron, SSRN Electronic Journal, Nature Communications, and Nature.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Zhenrui Liao, Tristan Geiller, Adrian Negrean, Franck Polleux, and Fraser T. Sparks.

Several notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Losonczy illustrate their research focus:

  • "A Role for the Locus Coeruleus in Hippocampal CA1 Place Cell Reorganization during Spatial Reward Learning," 2020, Neuron
  • "Large-Scale 3D Two-Photon Imaging of Molecularly Identified CA1 Interneuron Dynamics in Behaving Mice," 2020, Neuron
  • "Alternating sources of perisomatic inhibition during behavior," 2021, Neuron
  • "A consensus statement on detection of hippocampal sharp wave ripples and differentiation from other fast oscillations," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Local circuit amplification of spatial selectivity in the hippocampus," 2021, Nature

These studies address complex aspects of hippocampal function, neuronal dynamics, and behavior, reflecting interdisciplinary approaches to understanding brain mechanisms.

Best Publications

  • Control of timing, rate and bursts of hippocampal place cells by dendritic and somatic inhibition

    Sébastien Royer;Boris V Zemelman;Attila Losonczy;Attila Losonczy;Jinhyun Kim;Jinhyun Kim

  • Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity and input feature storage in neurons

    Attila Losonczy;Judit K. Makara;Jeffrey C. Magee

  • Integrative properties of radial oblique dendrites in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons.

    Attila Losonczy;Jeffrey C. Magee

  • Hippocampal Memory Traces Are Differentially Modulated by Experience, Time, and Adult Neurogenesis

    Christine A. Denny;Mazen A. Kheirbek;Eva L. Alba;Kenji F. Tanaka

  • Dendritic inhibition in the hippocampus supports fear learning.

    Matthew Lovett-Barron;Patrick Kaifosh;Mazen A. Kheirbek;Nathan Danielson

  • Regulation of neuronal input transformations by tunable dendritic inhibition

    Matthew Lovett-Barron;Gergely F. Turi;Patrick Kaifosh;Peter H. Lee

  • Distinct Contribution of Adult-Born Hippocampal Granule Cells to Context Encoding

    Nathan B. Danielson;Patrick Kaifosh;Jeffrey D. Zaremba;Matthew Lovett-Barron;Matthew Lovett-Barron

  • Parvalbumin-Positive Basket Cells Differentiate among Hippocampal Pyramidal Cells

    Sang Hun Lee;Ivan Marchionni;Marianne Bezaire;Csaba Varga

  • CA1 pyramidal cell diversity enabling parallel information processing in the hippocampus.

    Ivan Soltesz;Attila Losonczy

  • Rabies Virus CVS-N2cΔG Strain Enhances Retrograde Synaptic Transfer and Neuronal Viability

    Thomas R. Reardon;Andrew J. Murray;Gergely F. Turi;Christoph Wirblich

  • Sublayer-Specific Coding Dynamics during Spatial Navigation and Learning in Hippocampal Area CA1

    Nathan B. Danielson;Jeffrey D. Zaremba;Patrick Kaifosh;John Bowler

  • Multi-array silicon probes with integrated optical fibers: light-assisted perturbation and recording of local neural circuits in the behaving animal.

    Sébastien Royer;Boris V. Zemelman;Mladen Barbic;Attila Losonczy

  • Gating of hippocampal activity, plasticity, and memory by entorhinal cortex long-range inhibition.

    Jayeeta Basu;Jeffrey D. Zaremba;Stephanie K. Cheung;Frederick L. Hitti

  • Fast Synaptic Subcortical Control of Hippocampal Circuits

    Viktor Varga;Attila Losonczy;Attila Losonczy;Boris V. Zemelman;Zsolt Borhegyi

  • SIMA: Python software for analysis of dynamic fluorescence imaging data.

    Patrick Kaifosh;Jeffrey D. Zaremba;Nathan B. Danielson;Attila Losonczy

  • Vasoactive Intestinal Polypeptide-Expressing Interneurons in the Hippocampus Support Goal-Oriented Spatial Learning.

    Gergely Farkas Turi;Wen-Ke Li;Spyridon Chavlis;Ioanna Pandi;Ioanna Pandi

  • Volumetric Ca2+ Imaging in the Mouse Brain Using Hybrid Multiplexed Sculpted Light Microscopy.

    Siegfried Weisenburger;Frank Tejera;Jeffrey Demas;Brandon Chen

  • In Vivo Imaging of Dentate Gyrus Mossy Cells in Behaving Mice

    Nathan B. Danielson;Gergely F. Turi;Max Ladow;Spyridon Chavlis

  • Persistently active cannabinoid receptors mute a subpopulation of hippocampal interneurons.

    Attila Losonczy;Ágota A. Biró;Zoltan Nusser

  • A Role for the Locus Coeruleus in Hippocampal CA1 Place Cell Reorganization during Spatial Reward Learning.

    Alexandra Mansell Kaufman;Tristan Geiller;Attila Losonczy

  • Septo-hippocampal GABAergic signaling across multiple modalities in awake mice

    Patrick Kaifosh;Matthew Lovett-Barron;Gergely F Turi;Thomas R Reardon

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey C. Magee
Jeffrey C. Magee Baylor College of Medicine
Ivan Soltesz
Ivan Soltesz Stanford University
György Buzsáki
György Buzsáki New York University
Franck Polleux
Franck Polleux Columbia University
Stefano Fusi
Stefano Fusi Columbia University
René Hen
René Hen Columbia University
Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth Stanford University
Zoltan Nusser
Zoltan Nusser Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Peter Somogyi
Peter Somogyi University of Oxford
Joris de Wit
Joris de Wit KU Leuven

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