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  • 1999 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Farzan Nadim is affiliated with the New Jersey Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research is focused primarily within the field of neuroscience, with significant contributions to several related subfields including cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, statistical and nonlinear physics, neurology, and endocrine and autonomic systems.

Their main research topics encompass neural dynamics and brain function, neurobiology and insect physiology, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, stochastic dynamics and bifurcation, vestibular and auditory disorders, neuroscience and neural engineering, as well as advanced memory and neural computing.

Farzan Nadim's publications have appeared frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Neuroscience, eNeuro, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Nature Neuroscience.

  • Recent papers include "On the Role of Theory and Modeling in Neuroscience" (2023, Journal of Neuroscience)
  • "Cerebellar Contributions to the Basal Ganglia Influence Motor Coordination, Reward Processing, and Movement Vigor" (2022, Journal of Neuroscience)
  • "The cerebellum directly modulates the substantia nigra dopaminergic activity" (2024, Nature Neuroscience)
  • "Mapping circuit dynamics during function and dysfunction" (2022, eLife)
  • "Inter-Animal Variability in Activity Phase Is Constrained by Synaptic Dynamics in an Oscillatory Network" (2022, eNeuro)

Nadim has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including Dirk Bucher, Anna C. Schneider, Elizabeth M. Cronin, Horacio G. Rotstein, and Srinivas Gorur-Shandilya.

Among their recognitions, Farzan Nadim was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1999.

Best Publications

  • Neuromodulation of neurons and synapses.

    Farzan Nadim;Dirk Bucher

  • Coordination of Fast and Slow Rhythmic Neuronal Circuits

    Marlene Bartos;Yair Manor;Farzan Nadim;Eve Marder

  • Membrane capacitance measurements revisited: dependence of capacitance value on measurement method in nonisopotential neurons.

    Jorge Golowasch;Gladis Thomas;Adam L. Taylor;Arif Patel

  • Modeling the leech heartbeat elemental oscillator I. Interactions of intrinsic and synaptic currents

    Farzan Nadim;Øystein H. Olsen;Erik de Schutter;Ronald L. Calabrese

  • Temporal Dynamics of Graded Synaptic Transmission in the Lobster Stomatogastric Ganglion

    Yair Manor;Farzan Nadim;L. F. Abbott;Eve Marder

  • Heartbeat control in the medicinal leech: A model system for understanding the origin, coordination, and modulation of rhythmic motor patterns

    Ronald L. Calabrese;Farzan Nadim;Øystein H. Olsen

  • Frequency Regulation of a Slow Rhythm by a Fast Periodic Input

    Farzan Nadim;Yair Manor;Michael P. Nusbaum;Eve Marder

  • Computational Model of Electrically Coupled, Intrinsically Distinct Pacemaker Neurons

    Cristina Soto-Treviño;Pascale Rabbah;Eve Marder;Farzan Nadim

  • Synaptic depression creates a switch that controls the frequency of an oscillatory circuit.

    Farzan Nadim;Yair Manor;Nancy Kopell;Eve Marder

  • The role of short-term synaptic dynamics in motor control.

    Farzan Nadim;Yair Manor

  • Cerebellar Contributions to the Basal Ganglia Influence Motor Coordination, Reward Processing, and Movement Vigor

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  • Frequency preference in two-dimensional neural models: a linear analysis of the interaction between resonant and amplifying currents

    Horacio G. Rotstein;Farzan Nadim

  • Membrane Resonance in Bursting Pacemaker Neurons of an Oscillatory Network Is Correlated with Network Frequency

    Vahid Tohidi;Farzan Nadim

  • Synaptic depression mediates bistability in neuronal networks with recurrent inhibitory connectivity.

    Yair Manor;Farzan Nadim

  • On the role of theory and modeling in neuroscience

    Daniel Levenstein;Veronica A. Alvarez;Asohan Amarasingham;Habiba Azab

  • Modeling the leech heartbeat elemental oscillator II. Exploring the parameter space

    Øystein H. Olsen;Farzan Nadim;Ronald L. Calabrese

  • The complexity of small circuits: the stomatogastric nervous system.

    Nelly Daur;Farzan Nadim;Dirk Bucher

  • Proprioceptor regulation of motor circuit activity by presynaptic inhibition of a modulatory projection neuron.

    Mark P. Beenhakker;Nicholas D. DeLong;Shari R. Saideman;Farzan Nadim

  • Pacemaker neuron and network oscillations depend on a neuromodulator-regulated linear current

    Shunbing Zhao;Jorge P Golowasch;Jorge P Golowasch;Farzan Nadim;Farzan Nadim

  • Peptide Neuromodulation of Synaptic Dynamics in an Oscillatory Network

    Shunbing Zhao;Amir Farzad Sheibanie;Myongkeun Oh;Pascale Rabbah

  • Contribution of synaptic depression to phase maintenance in a model rhythmic network.

    Yair Manor;Amitabha Bose;Amitabha Bose;Victoria Booth;Farzan Nadim;Farzan Nadim

  • A Newly Identified Extrinsic Input Triggers a Distinct Gastric Mill Rhythm via Activation of Modulatory Projection Neurons

    Dawn M. Blitz;Rachel S. White;Shari R. Saideman;Aaron Cook

Frequent Co-Authors

Eve Marder
Eve Marder Brandeis University
Michael P. Nusbaum
Michael P. Nusbaum University of Pennsylvania
Ronald L. Calabrese
Ronald L. Calabrese Emory University
Ronald M. Harris-Warrick
Ronald M. Harris-Warrick Cornell University
Nancy Kopell
Nancy Kopell Boston University
A. David Redish
A. David Redish University of Minnesota
Christiane Linster
Christiane Linster Cornell University
Alain Destexhe
Alain Destexhe Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Marlene Bartos
Marlene Bartos University of Freiburg
Veronica A. Alvarez
Veronica A. Alvarez National Institutes of Health

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