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  • 2011 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Douglas A. Nitz is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with specific attention to cognitive neuroscience and cellular and molecular neuroscience. Their scholarly contributions include work in related subfields such as neurology, cell biology, and physiology.

The scientist's research topics cover several areas within neuroscience, including:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments

Douglas A. Nitz has published extensively, with a total of 52 works in neuroscience. Their frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 6 publications, as well as Current Biology and Neurobiology of Disease, each with 2 publications. Other venues include Neuron and PLoS Biology.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Douglas A. Nitz include:

  • Rethinking retrosplenial cortex: Perspectives and predictions, 2022, Neuron
  • Noncanonical projections to the hippocampal CA3 regulate spatial learning and memory by modulating the feedforward hippocampal trisynaptic pathway, 2021, PLoS Biology
  • Secondary Motor Cortex Transforms Spatial Information into Planned Action during Navigation, 2020, Current Biology
  • Adaptive integration of self-motion and goals in posterior parietal cortex, 2022, Cell Reports
  • Spatial coding defects of hippocampal neural ensemble calcium activities in the triple-transgenic Alzheimer's disease mouse model, 2021, Neurobiology of Disease

Their frequent co-authors include Xiangmin Xu, Xiaoxiao Lin, Todd C. Holmes, Laura E. Shelley, and Alexander B. Johnson.

Douglas A. Nitz received the Hellman Fellow award in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Experience-dependent phase-reversal of hippocampal neuron firing during REM sleep

    Gina R. Poe;Douglas A. Nitz;Bruce L. McNaughton;Carol A. Barnes

  • Electrophysiological correlates of rest and activity in Drosophila melanogaster.

    Douglas A Nitz;Bruno van Swinderen;Giulio Tononi;Ralph J Greenspan

  • Retrosplenial cortex maps the conjunction of internal and external spaces

    Andrew S Alexander;Douglas A Nitz

  • Tracking Route Progression in the Posterior Parietal Cortex

    Douglas A. Nitz

  • GABA release in the locus coeruleus as a function of sleep/wake state.

    D. Nitz;J.M. Siegel

  • GABA release in the dorsal raphe nucleus: role in the control of REM sleep.

    D. Nitz;J. Siegel

  • Differential Modulation of CA1 and Dentate Gyrus Interneurons During Exploration of Novel Environments

    Douglas A. Nitz;Bruce L. McNaughton

  • Early skill learning is expressed through selection and tuning of cortically represented muscle synergies

    William J. Kargo;Douglas A. Nitz

  • GABA release in posterior hypothalamus across sleep-wake cycle.

    D. Nitz;J. M. Siegel

  • Spatial navigation and causal analysis in a brain-based device modeling cortical-hippocampal interactions.

    Jeffrey L Krichmar;Anil K Seth;Douglas A Nitz;Jason G Fleischer

  • Spatially Periodic Activation Patterns of Retrosplenial Cortex Encode Route Sub-spaces and Distance Traveled.

    Andrew S. Alexander;Douglas A. Nitz

  • Spaces within spaces: rat parietal cortex neurons register position across three reference frames

    Douglas A Nitz

  • Improvements in the Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Motor Cortex Cells Distinguish Early versus Late Phases of Motor Skill Learning

    William J. Kargo;Douglas A. Nitz

  • Anterior cingulate neurons in the rat map anticipated effort and reward to their associated action sequences

    Stephen L. Cowen;Glen A. Davis;Douglas A. Nitz

  • Subiculum neurons map the current axis of travel

    Jacob M Olson;Kanyanat Tongprasearth;Douglas A Nitz

  • Parietal cortex, navigation, and the construction of arbitrary reference frames for spatial information.

    Douglas Nitz

  • Uncoupling of Brain Activity from Movement Defines Arousal States in Drosophila

    B van Swinderen;D.A Nitz;R.J Greenspan

  • Discrete place fields of hippocampal formation interneurons.

    W. Bryan Wilent;Douglas A. Nitz

  • Characterizing functional hippocampal pathways in a brain-based device as it solves a spatial memory task

    Jeffrey L. Krichmar;Douglas A. Nitz;Joseph A. Gally;Gerald M. Edelman

  • CA1-projecting subiculum neurons facilitate object–place learning

    Yanjun Sun;Suoqin Jin;Xiaoxiao Lin;Lujia Chen

  • Adaptation of prefrontal cortical firing patterns and their fidelity to changes in action-reward contingencies.

    William J. Kargo;Botond Szatmary;Douglas A. Nitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey L. Krichmar
Jeffrey L. Krichmar University of California, Irvine
Xiangmin Xu
Xiangmin Xu University of California, Irvine
Jerome M. Siegel
Jerome M. Siegel University of California, Los Angeles
Verner P. Bingman
Verner P. Bingman Bowling Green State University
Bruce L. McNaughton
Bruce L. McNaughton University of California, Irvine
Giulio Tononi
Giulio Tononi University of Wisconsin–Madison
Peyman Golshani
Peyman Golshani University of California, Los Angeles
Anil K. Seth
Anil K. Seth University of Sussex
Bruno van Swinderen
Bruno van Swinderen University of Queensland
Carol A. Barnes
Carol A. Barnes University of Arizona

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