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Overview

Dietmar Plenz is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with more than fifty publications dedicated to the field. Within neuroscience, their work spans several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, statistical and nonlinear physics, molecular biology, and computer networks and communications.

The scientist's research topics emphasize neural dynamics and brain function, with significant contributions to functional brain connectivity studies. Additional areas of study include stochastic dynamics and bifurcation, neuroscience and neural engineering, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, and protein structure and dynamics.

Recent publications reflect the diversity of their research interests:

  • Oligodendrocyte-mediated myelin plasticity and its role in neural synchronization, 2023, eLife
  • Stability of neuronal avalanches and long-range temporal correlations during the first year of life in human infants, 2020, Brain Structure and Function
  • Beyond pulsed inhibition: Alpha oscillations modulate attenuation and amplification of neural activity in the awake resting state, 2023, Cell Reports
  • Scale-Free Dynamics in Animal Groups and Brain Networks, 2021, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
  • Parabolic avalanche scaling in the synchronization of cortical cell assemblies, 2023, Nature Communications

Frequent publication venues for Dietmar Plenz include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, Brain Structure and Function, Cell Reports, and Nature Communications.

Their work often involves collaboration with other researchers, with notable frequent coauthors being:

  • Tiago L. Ribeiro
  • Dante R. Chialvo
  • Sinisa Pajevic
  • Patrick Kells
  • Shan Yu

Best Publications

  • Neuronal Avalanches in Neocortical Circuits

    John M. Beggs;Dietmar Plenz

  • Powerlaw: a Python package for analysis of heavy-tailed distributions.

    Jeff Alstott;Ed Bullmore;Dietmar Plenz

  • A basal ganglia pacemaker formed by the subthalamic nucleus and external globus pallidus

    Dietmar Plenz;Stephen T. Kital

  • Neuronal avalanches are diverse and precise activity patterns that are stable for many hours in cortical slice cultures.

    John M. Beggs;Dietmar Plenz

  • Neuronal avalanches imply maximum dynamic range in cortical networks at criticality

    Woodrow L. Shew;Hongdian Yang;Thomas Petermann;Rajarshi Roy

  • Spontaneous cortical activity in awake monkeys composed of neuronal avalanches.

    Thomas Petermann;Tara C. Thiagarajan;Mikhail A. Lebedev;Miguel A. L. Nicolelis

  • Information capacity and transmission are maximized in balanced cortical networks with neuronal avalanches.

    Woodrow L. Shew;Hongdian Yang;Shan Yu;Rajarshi Roy

  • The Functional Benefits of Criticality in the Cortex

    Woodrow L Shew;Dietmar Plenz

  • The organizing principles of neuronal avalanches: cell assemblies in the cortex?

    Dietmar Plenz;Tara C. Thiagarajan

  • Up and Down States in Striatal Medium Spiny Neurons Simultaneously Recorded with Spontaneous Activity in Fast-Spiking Interneurons Studied in Cortex–Striatum–Substantia Nigra Organotypic Cultures

    Dietmar Plenz;Stephen T. Kitai

  • Neuronal avalanches organize as nested theta- and beta/gamma-oscillations during development of cortical layer 2/3

    Elakkat D. Gireesh;Dietmar Plenz

  • Neuronal Avalanches in the Resting MEG of the Human Brain

    Oren Shriki;Jeff Alstott;Frederick Carver;Tom Holroyd

  • Statistical analyses support power law distributions found in neuronal avalanches.

    Andreas Klaus;Shan Yu;Dietmar Plenz

  • When inhibition goes incognito: feedback interaction between spiny projection neurons in striatal function

    Dietmar Plenz

  • Higher-Order Interactions Characterized in Cortical Activity

    Shan Yu;Hongdian Yang;Hiroyuki Nakahara;Gustavo S. Santos

  • Neuronal avalanches in spontaneous activity in vivo.

    Gerald Hahn;Thomas Petermann;Martha Nari Havenith;Shan Yu

  • Fast synaptic transmission between striatal spiny projection neurons

    Uwe Czubayko;Dietmar Plenz

  • Criticality in neural systems

    Dietmar Plenz;Ernst Niebur

  • Maximal variability of phase synchrony in cortical networks with neuronal avalanches.

    Hongdian Yang;Woodrow L. Shew;Rajarshi Roy;Dietmar Plenz

  • Inverted-U Profile of Dopamine–NMDA-Mediated Spontaneous Avalanche Recurrence in Superficial Layers of Rat Prefrontal Cortex

    Craig V. Stewart;Dietmar Plenz

  • A Viewpoint on: Brain Organization into Resting State Networks Emerges at Criticality on a Model of the Human Connectome

    Dietmar Plenz;Ariel Haimovici;Enzo Tagliazucchi;Pablo Balenzuela

Frequent Co-Authors

Ad Aertsen
Ad Aertsen University of Freiburg
Edward T. Bullmore
Edward T. Bullmore King's College London
Hans J. Herrmann
Hans J. Herrmann ESPCI Paris
Patrick O. Kanold
Patrick O. Kanold Johns Hopkins University
Mikhail A. Lebedev
Mikhail A. Lebedev Moscow State University
Miguel A. L. Nicolelis
Miguel A. L. Nicolelis Duke University
Peter Achermann
Peter Achermann University of Zurich
Richard N. Henson
Richard N. Henson MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy
Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy University of Oxford
Wolf Singer
Wolf Singer Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience

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