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Overview

Huizhong W. Tao is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States and specializes in neuroscience. Their research encompasses a range of topics primarily within the field of neuroscience, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience and cellular and molecular neuroscience. They have contributed to the subfields of molecular biology, social psychology, and biophysics.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Cell image analysis techniques
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Memory and neural mechanisms
  • Multisensory perception and integration

Their recent publications span influential journals and cover significant aspects of neural circuitry, stress and behavior, and sensory processing. Recent papers include:

  • Cellular anatomy of the mouse primary motor cortex, 2021, Nature
  • Synaptic Specificity and Application of Anterograde Transsynaptic AAV for Probing Neural Circuitry, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Medial preoptic area antagonistically mediates stress-induced anxiety and parental behavior, 2021, Nature Neuroscience
  • Corticostriatal control of defense behavior in mice induced by auditory looming cues, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Contextual and cross-modality modulation of auditory cortical processing through pulvinar mediated suppression, 2020, eLife

Frequently, Huizhong W. Tao collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Li I. Zhang
  • Guangwei Zhang
  • Junxiang Huang
  • Bo Peng
  • Can Tao

Their research has been published mainly in the following venues:

  • Nature Communications
  • Neuron
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • A critical window for cooperation and competition among developing retinotectal synapses

    Li I. Zhang;Huizhong W. Tao;Christine E. Holt;William A. Harris

  • AAV-Mediated Anterograde Transsynaptic Tagging: Mapping Corticocollicular Input-Defined Neural Pathways for Defense Behaviors.

    Brian Zingg;Xiao-lin Chou;Zheng-gang Zhang;Lukas Mesik

  • Scaling down of balanced excitation and inhibition by active behavioral states in auditory cortex

    Mu Zhou;Feixue Liang;Xiaorui R Xiong;Lu Li

  • Distinct Inhibitory Circuits Orchestrate Cortical beta and gamma Band Oscillations

    Guang Chen;Yuan Zhang;Xiang Li;Xiaochen Zhao

  • Lateral sharpening of cortical frequency tuning by approximately balanced inhibition.

    Guangying K. Wu;Robert Arbuckle;Bao-hua Liu;Huizhong W. Tao

  • Cross-Modality Sharpening of Visual Cortical Processing through Layer-1-Mediated Inhibition and Disinhibition.

    Leena A. Ibrahim;Lukas Mesik;Xu-ying Ji;Qi Fang

  • Visual Representations by Cortical Somatostatin Inhibitory Neurons—Selective But with Weak and Delayed Responses

    Wen-pei Ma;Bao-hua Liu;Ya-tang Li;Z. Josh Huang

  • Cellular anatomy of the mouse primary motor cortex

    Rodrigo Muñoz-Castañeda;Brian Zingg;Brian Zingg;Katherine S. Matho;Xiaoyin Chen;Xiaoyin Chen

  • Defining cortical frequency tuning with recurrent excitatory circuitry.

    Baohua B. Liu;Guangying K. Wu;Robert Arbuckle;Robert Arbuckle;Huizhong W. Tao

  • Fine-Tuning of Pre-Balanced Excitation and Inhibition During Auditory Cortical Development

    Yujiao J. Sun;Guangying K. Wu;Bao-hua Liu;Pingyang Li

  • Reversal and stabilization of synaptic modifications in a developing visual system.

    Qiang Zhou;Huizhong W. Tao;Mu-ming Poo

  • Nonmonotonic Synaptic Excitation and Imbalanced Inhibition Underlying Cortical Intensity Tuning

    Guangying K. Wu;Pingyang Li;Huizhong W. Tao;Li I. Zhang

  • Activity-dependent matching of excitatory and inhibitory inputs during refinement of visual receptive fields.

    Huizhong W. Tao;Mu-ming Poo

  • Broad inhibition sharpens orientation selectivity by expanding input dynamic range in mouse simple cells

    Bao hua Liu;Ya tang Li;Wen pei Ma;Chen jie Pan

  • Thalamocortical Innervation Pattern in Mouse Auditory and Visual Cortex: Laminar and Cell-Type Specificity

    Xu-ying Ji;Brian Zingg;Lukas Mesik;Zhongju Xiao

  • Linear transformation of thalamocortical input by intracortical excitation.

    Ya-tang Li;Leena A Ibrahim;Bao-hua Liu;Li I Zhang

  • Auditory cortex controls sound-driven innate defense behaviour through corticofugal projections to inferior colliculus

    Xiaorui R. Xiong;Feixue Liang;Brian Zingg;Xu-ying Ji

  • Retrograde signaling at central synapses

    Huizhong W. Tao;Mu-ming Poo

  • Synaptic Specificity and Application of Anterograde Transsynaptic AAV for Probing Neural Circuitry.

    Brian Zingg;Brian Zingg;Bo Peng;Bo Peng;Junxiang Huang;Junxiang Huang;Huizhong W. Tao

  • Visual receptive field structure of cortical inhibitory neurons revealed by two-photon imaging guided recording.

    Bao-hua Liu;Pingyang Li;Ya-tang Li;Yujiao J. Sun

  • Moving visual stimuli rapidly induce direction sensitivity of developing tectal neurons

    Florian Engert;Florian Engert;Huizhong W. Tao;Li I. Zhang;Mu-ming Poo

Frequent Co-Authors

Li I. Zhang
Li I. Zhang University of Southern California
Mu-ming Poo
Mu-ming Poo Chinese Academy of Sciences
Z. Josh Huang
Z. Josh Huang Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Florian Engert
Florian Engert Harvard University
Hong-Wei Dong
Hong-Wei Dong University of Southern California
Dirk Feldmeyer
Dirk Feldmeyer Forschungszentrum Jülich
Yuchio Yanagawa
Yuchio Yanagawa Gunma University
Jean Bullier
Jean Bullier Grenoble Alpes University
Kunihiko Obata
Kunihiko Obata The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI
Herwig Baier
Herwig Baier Max Planck Society

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