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Dirk Feldmeyer is affiliated with Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany and has an extensive publication record in neuroscience and related fields. Their research primarily focuses on cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and molecular biology, with additional work touching on neurology and biophysics.

The main fields of study in their work include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Key subfields associated with Dirk Feldmeyer's research are:

  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Molecular Biology
  • Neurology
  • Biophysics

The scientific topics covered in their publications reflect a focus on complex neural mechanisms and processes. These include:

  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research

Dirk Feldmeyer has contributed to multiple recent papers, notable for their diverse venues and subjects:

  • A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types, 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • Cholinergic and Adenosinergic Modulation of Synaptic Release, 2020, Neuroscience
  • Unveiling the Synaptic Function and Structure Using Paired Recordings From Synaptically Coupled Neurons, 2020, Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience
  • Layer-Specific Inhibitory Microcircuits of Layer 6 Interneurons in Rat Prefrontal Cortex, 2020, Cerebral Cortex
  • Layer 6A Pyramidal Cell Subtypes Form Synaptic Microcircuits with Distinct Functional and Structural Properties, 2021, Cerebral Cortex

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Guanxiao Qi
  • Danqing Yang
  • Chao Ding
  • Henner Koch
  • Daniel Delev

Dirk Feldmeyer's publications are often found in specific scholarly venues, reflecting recurring engagement with several journals and platforms:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

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

  • Point mutation in an AMPA receptor gene rescues lethality in mice deficient in the RNA-editing enzyme ADAR2

    Miyoko Higuchi;Stefan Maas;Frank Nicolai Single;Jochen C. Hartner

  • 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

  • Early-Onset Epilepsy and Postnatal Lethality Associated with an Editing-Deficient GluR-B Allele in Mice

    Rossella Brusa;Frank Zimmermann;Duk Su Koh;Dirk Feldmeyer

  • Synaptic connections between layer 4 spiny neurone‐ layer 2/3 pyramidal cell pairs in juvenile rat barrel cortex: physiology and anatomy of interlaminar signalling within a cortical column

    Dirk Feldmeyer;Joachim H. R. Lübke;R. Angus Silver;Bert Sakmann

  • Reliable synaptic connections between pairs of excitatory layer 4 neurones within a single ‘barrel’ of developing rat somatosensory cortex

    Dirk Feldmeyer;Veronica Egger;Joachim H. R. Lübke;Bert Sakmann

  • Coincidence detection and changes of synaptic efficacy in spiny stellate neurons in rat barrel cortex.

    Veronica Egger;Dirk Feldmeyer;Bert Sakmann

  • Columnar organization of dendrites and axons of single and synaptically coupled excitatory spiny neurons in layer 4 of the rat barrel cortex.

    Joachim H. R. Lübke;Veronica Egger;Bert Sakmann;Dirk Feldmeyer

  • Barrel cortex function

    Dirk Feldmeyer;Michael Brecht;Fritjof Helmchen;Carl C. H. Petersen

  • Efficacy and connectivity of intracolumnar pairs of layer 2/3 pyramidal cells in the barrel cortex of juvenile rats

    Dirk Feldmeyer;Joachim H. R. Lübke;Joachim H. R. Lübke;Bert Sakmann

  • Excitatory neuronal connectivity in the barrel cortex.

    Dirk Feldmeyer

  • Neuronal Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Proteins (NEX and BETA2/Neuro D) Regulate Terminal Granule Cell Differentiation in the Hippocampus

    Markus H. Schwab;Angelika Bartholomae;Bernd Heimrich;Dirk Feldmeyer

  • NMDA-receptor channel diversity in the developing cerebellum

    Mark Farrant;Dirk Feldmeyer;Tomoyuki Takahashi;Stuart G. Cull-Candy

  • Neurological dysfunctions in mice expressing different levels of the Q/R site-unedited AMPAR subunit GluR-B.

    Dirk Feldmeyer;Kalev Kask;Rossella Brusa;Hans–Christian Kornau

  • Excitatory signal flow and connectivity in a cortical column: focus on barrel cortex

    Joachim Lübke;Dirk Feldmeyer

  • Connexin expression in electrically coupled postnatal rat brain neurons

    Laurent Venance;Andrei Rozov;Maria Blatow;Nail Burnashev

  • A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types

    Rafael Yuste;Michael Hawrylycz;Nadia Aalling;Argel Aguilar-Valles

  • Morphometric Analysis of the Columnar Innervation Domain of Neurons Connecting Layer 4 and Layer 2/3 of Juvenile Rat Barrel Cortex

    Joachim H. R. Lübke;Arnd Roth;Dirk Feldmeyer;Bert Sakmann

  • Functional correlation of NMDA receptor epsilon subunits expression with the properties of single-channel and synaptic currents in the developing cerebellum

    Tomoyuki Takahashi;Dirk Feldmeyer;Norimitsu Suzuki;Kayoko Onodera

  • Layer- and Cell Type-Specific Modulation of Excitatory Neuronal Activity in the Neocortex.

    Gabriele Radnikow;Dirk Feldmeyer;Dirk Feldmeyer

  • Morphological and Physiological Characterization of Pyramidal Neuron Subtypes in Rat Medial Prefrontal Cortex

    Karlijn I. van Aerde;Dirk Feldmeyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Joachim H. R. Lübke
Joachim H. R. Lübke Forschungszentrum Jülich
Javier DeFelipe
Javier DeFelipe Technical University of Madrid
Moritz Helmstaedter
Moritz Helmstaedter Max Planck Society
Jochen F. Staiger
Jochen F. Staiger University of Göttingen
Gábor Tamás
Gábor Tamás University of Szeged
Rafael Yuste
Rafael Yuste Columbia University
Ted Abel
Ted Abel University of Iowa
Oscar Marín
Oscar Marín King's College London
Giorgio A. Ascoli
Giorgio A. Ascoli George Mason University
Peter Somogyi
Peter Somogyi University of Oxford

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