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Erik De Schutter is affiliated with the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, focusing on research primarily in the fields of Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work significantly intersects with subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Neurology, and Biophysics.

The scientist's research topics extensively cover neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, vestibular and auditory disorders, lipid membrane structure and behavior, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, cellular transport and secretion, and advanced memory and neural computing.

Frequent collaborators include Sungho Hong, Iain Hepburn, Akshay Markanday, Junya Inoue, and Peter Thier.

Erik De Schutter has published in various scientific venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
  • eLife
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Recent notable papers include:

  • The Cellular Electrophysiological Properties Underlying Multiplexed Coding in Purkinje Cells, 2021, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Control of Ca 2+ signals by astrocyte nanoscale morphology at tripartite synapses, 2022, Glia
  • Firing rate-dependent phase responses of Purkinje cells support transient oscillations, 2020, eLife
  • Multidimensional cerebellar computations for flexible kinematic control of movements, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Recent data on the cerebellum require new models and theories, 2023, Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Best Publications

  • An active membrane model of the cerebellar Purkinje cell. I. Simulation of current clamps in slice.

    E. De Schutter;J. M. Bower

  • Deletion of FMR1 in Purkinje Cells Enhances Parallel Fiber LTD, Enlarges Spines, and Attenuates Cerebellar Eyelid Conditioning in Fragile X Syndrome

    S.K.E. Koekkoek;K. Yamaguchi;B.A. Milojkovic;B.R. Dortland

  • Anomalous Diffusion in Purkinje Cell Dendrites Caused by Spines

    Fidel Santamaria;Stefan Wils;Erik De Schutter;George J. Augustine

  • Synchronization of Golgi and Granule Cell Firing in a Detailed Network Model of the Cerebellar Granule Cell Layer

    Reinoud Maex;Erik De Schutter

  • Complex parameter landscape for a complex neuron model.

    Pablo Achard;Erik De Schutter

  • An active membrane model of the cerebellar Purkinje cell II. Simulation of synaptic responses

    E. De Schutter;J. M. Bower

  • Microcircuits in action--from CPGs to neocortex.

    Sten Grillner;Henry Markram;Erik De Schutter;Gilad Silberberg;Gilad Silberberg

  • Cerebellar long-term depression might normalize excitation of Purkinje cells: a hypothesis

    Erik De Schutter

  • GABA-mediated repulsive coupling between circadian clock neurons in the SCN encodes seasonal time

    Jihwan Myung;Jihwan Myung;Sungho Hong;Daniel DeWoskin;Erik De Schutter

  • Cerebellar LTD and Pattern Recognition by Purkinje Cells

    Volker Steuber;Volker Steuber;Wolfgang Mittmann;Freek E. Hoebeek;R. Angus Silver

  • The choroid plexus is an important circadian clock component.

    Jihwan Myung;Christoph Schmal;Sungho Hong;Yoshiaki Tsukizawa

  • STEPS: efficient simulation of stochastic reaction–diffusion models in realistic morphologies

    Iain Hepburn;Iain Hepburn;Weiliang Chen;Stefan Wils;Stefan Wils;Erik De Schutter;Erik De Schutter

  • A Higher Order Motion Region in Human Inferior Parietal Lobule: Evidence from fMRI

    Kristl G Claeys;Delwin T Lindsey;Erik De Schutter;Guy A Orban

  • Cerebellar Golgi cells in the rat: receptive fields and timing of responses to facial stimulation.

    Bart P. Vos;Antonia Volny-Luraghi;Erik De Schutter

  • Computational Neuroscience : Realistic Modeling for Experimentalists

    Erik De Schutter

  • Simulated responses of cerebellar Purkinje cells are independent of the dendritic location of granule cell synaptic inputs.

    E De Schutter;J M Bower

  • Comparing BOLD fMRI signal changes in the awake and anesthetized rat during electrical forepaw stimulation.

    R.R. Peeters;I. Tindemans;E. De Schutter;A. Van der Linden

  • Impact of Neuronal Properties on Network Coding: Roles of Spike Initiation Dynamics and Robust Synchrony Transfer

    Stéphanie Ratté;Sungho Hong;Erik De Schutter;Steven A. Prescott

  • Ascending granule cell axon: An important component of cerebellar cortical circuitry

    Girija Gundappa-Sulur;Erik De Schutter;James M. Bower

  • Computational Modeling Methods for Neuroscientists

    Erik De Schutter

  • The Role of Synaptic and Voltage-Gated Currents in the Control of Purkinje Cell Spiking: A Modeling Study

    Dieter Jaeger;Erik De Schutter;James M. Bower

  • Large-scale neuronal theories of the brain: edited by Christof Koch and Joel L. Davis, The MIT Press, 1994. $74.25 (xi + 343 pages) ISBN 0 262 11183 7

    E. De Schutter

Frequent Co-Authors

James M. Bower
James M. Bower The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Giorgio A. Ascoli
Giorgio A. Ascoli George Mason University
Chris I. De Zeeuw
Chris I. De Zeeuw Erasmus University Rotterdam
David N. Kennedy
David N. Kennedy University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Toru Takumi
Toru Takumi Kobe University
Guy A. Orban
Guy A. Orban University of Parma
R. Angus Silver
R. Angus Silver University College London
Jan G. Bjaalie
Jan G. Bjaalie University of Oslo
Alain Destexhe
Alain Destexhe Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Dieter Jaeger
Dieter Jaeger Emory University

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