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Carmen C. Canavier is affiliated with the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with significant contributions spanning cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and molecular biology. Other areas of study include computer networks and communications as well as statistical and nonlinear physics.

The scientist's work centers around several topics, notably neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and photoreceptor and optogenetics research. Additional identified research areas include nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation, stochastic dynamics and bifurcation, memory and neural mechanisms, and neuroscience and neural engineering.

Among the recent publications by Carmen C. Canavier are the following:

  • Kinetics and Connectivity Properties of Parvalbumin- and Somatostatin-Positive Inhibition in Layer 2/3 Medial Entorhinal Cortex, 2022, eNeuro
  • Ca v 1.3 calcium channels are full-range linear amplifiers of firing frequencies in lateral DA SN neurons, 2022, Science Advances
  • Inactivation mode of sodium channels defines the different maximal firing rates of conventional versus atypical midbrain dopamine neurons, 2021, PLoS Computational Biology
  • Cholinergic modulation shifts the response of CA1 pyramidal cells to depolarizing ramps via TRPM4 channels with potential implications for place field firing, 2023, eLife
  • Interneuronal network model of theta-nested fast oscillations predicts differential effects of heterogeneity, gap junctions and short term depression for hyperpolarizing versus shunting inhibition, 2022, PLoS Computational Biology

Carmen C. Canavier has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Christopher J. Knowlton
  • Fernando R. Fernandez
  • John A. White
  • Román Baravalle
  • A. Srinivas

The scientist's work is regularly published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eNeuro, PLoS Computational Biology, Science Advances, and eLife.

Best Publications

  • The energy cost of action potential propagation in dopamine neurons: clues to susceptibility in Parkinson's disease

    Eleftheria Kyriaki Pissadaki;J. Paul Bolam

  • Phase-Resetting Curves Determine Synchronization, Phase Locking, and Clustering in Networks of Neural Oscillators

    Srisairam Achuthan;Carmen C. Canavier

  • Phase resetting and phase locking in hybrid circuits of one model and one biological neuron.

    S. A. Oprisan;A. A. Prinz;C. C. Canavier

  • Phase-resetting as a tool of information transmission.

    Carmen C Canavier

  • Nonlinear dynamics in a model neuron provide a novel mechanism for transient synaptic inputs to produce long-term alterations of postsynaptic activity.

    C. C. Canavier;D. A. Baxter;J. W. Clark;J. H. Byrne

  • Simulation of the bursting activity of neuron R15 in Aplysia: role of ionic currents, calcium balance, and modulatory transmitters.

    C. C. Canavier;J. W. Clark;John H Byrne

  • Calcium dynamics underlying pacemaker-like and burst firing oscillations in midbrain dopaminergic neurons: a computational study.

    B. Amini;J. W. Clark;C. C. Canavier

  • Pulse coupled oscillators and the phase resetting curve

    Carmen C. Canavier;Srisairam Achuthan

  • A modeling study suggests complementary roles for GABAA and NMDA receptors and the SK channel in regulating the firing pattern in midbrain dopamine neurons.

    Alexander O. Komendantov;Olena G. Komendantova;Steven W. Johnson;Carmen C. Canavier

  • Phase response characteristics of model neurons determine which patterns are expressed in a ring circuit model of gait generation

    Carmen C. Canavier;Robert J. Butera;R. O. Dror;Douglas A. Baxter

  • Routes to chaos in a model of a bursting neuron.

    C.C. Canavier;J.W. Clark;J.H. Byrne

  • Resonant Interneurons Can Increase Robustness of Gamma Oscillations.

    Ruben A. Tikidji-Hamburyan;Joan José Martínez;John A. White;Carmen C. Canavier

  • Control of multistability in ring circuits of oscillators.

    Carmen C. Canavier;Douglas A. Baxter;John W. Clark;John H. Byrne

  • A mathematical criterion based on phase response curves for stability in a ring of coupled oscillators

    R. O. Dror;Carmen C. Canavier;Robert J. Butera;John W. Clark

  • Multiple modes of activity in a model neuron suggest a novel mechanism for the effects of neuromodulators

    C. C. Canavier;Douglas Baxter;J. W. Clark;John H Byrne

  • Sodium dynamics underlying burst firing and putative mechanisms for the regulation of the firing pattern in midbrain dopamine neurons: a computational approach.

    Carmen C. Canavier

  • Analysis of the effects of modulatory agents on a modeled bursting neuron: Dynamic interactions between voltage and calcium dependent systems

    Robert J. Butera;John W. Clark;Carmen C. Canavier;Douglas A. Baxter

  • Regulation of Firing Frequency in a Computational Model of a Midbrain Dopaminergic Neuron

    Anna Y. Kuznetsova;Marco A. Huertas;Alexey S. Kuznetsov;Carlos A. Paladini

  • Phase Response Curve

    Carmen C. Canavier

  • An Increase in AMPA and a Decrease in SK Conductance Increase Burst Firing by Different Mechanisms in a Model of a Dopamine Neuron In Vivo

    C. C. Canavier;R. S. Landry

  • Functional phase response curves: a method for understanding synchronization of adapting neurons.

    Jianxia Cui;Carmen C. Canavier;Robert J. Butera

  • Computational model of the serotonergic modulation of sensory neurons in Aplysia.

    Douglas A. Baxter;Carmen C. Canavier;John W. Clark;John H. Byrne

Frequent Co-Authors

John H. Byrne
John H. Byrne The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Douglas A. Baxter
Douglas A. Baxter The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
John A. White
John A. White Boston University
Jochen Roeper
Jochen Roeper Goethe University Frankfurt
Michael C. Andresen
Michael C. Andresen Oregon Health & Science University
Boris Gutkin
Boris Gutkin École Normale Supérieure
Nancy Kopell
Nancy Kopell Boston University
Theoden I. Netoff
Theoden I. Netoff University of Minnesota
Michele Migliore
Michele Migliore National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Diana L. Kunze
Diana L. Kunze Case Western Reserve University

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