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Jaime F. Olavarria is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research activity spans several fields of study including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, and Medicine. Within these disciplines, Olavarria's work further specializes in Molecular Biology, Ophthalmology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Biophysics.

Olavarria's scientific investigations focus primarily on topics related to Retinal Development and Disorders, Glaucoma and retinal disorders, Visual perception and processing mechanisms, Connexins and lens biology, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques.

Their publication record includes papers in diverse venues, with multiple contributions to Visual Neuroscience, The Journal of Comparative Neurology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and UNC Libraries. Recent papers illustrate a focus on the visual system, ocular dominance, and neural connectivity.

  • Ocular dominance columns in V1 are more susceptible than associated callosal patches to imbalance of eye input during precritical and critical periods (2021, The Journal of Comparative Neurology)
  • Overall patterns of eye-specific retino-geniculo-cortical projections to layers III, IV, and VI in primary visual cortex of the greater galago (Otolemur crassicudatus), and correlation with cytochrome oxidase blobs (2022, Visual Neuroscience)
  • Blockade of retinal or cortical activity does not prevent the development of callosal patches normally associated with ocular dominance columns in primary visual cortex (2021, Visual Neuroscience)
  • Overall patterns of eye-specific retino-geniculo-cortical projections to layers III, IV and VI in primary visual cortex of the prosimian galago, and correlation with cytochrome oxidase blobs (2022, bioRxiv [Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory])
  • Role of interstitial branching in the development of visual corticocortical connections: A time-lapse and fixed-tissue analysis (2020, UNC Libraries)

Frequent collaborators in Olavarria's research include Hui-Xin Qi, Toru Takahata, Jon H. Kaas, Robyn J. Laing, and Adrian K. Andelin.

Best Publications

  • Modular and hierarchical organization of extrastriate visual cortex in the macaque monkey

    D. C. Van Essen;Daniel Felleman;E. A. DeYoe;J. Olavarria

  • Beyond laminar fate: Toward a molecular classification of cortical projection/pyramidal neurons

    Robert F Hevner;Ray A M Daza;John L R Rubenstein;Henk Stunnenberg

  • Areal and laminar organization of corticocortical projections in the rat somatosensory cortex.

    K A Koralek;J Olavarria;H P Killackey

  • Organization and postnatal development of callosal connections in the visual cortex of the rat.

    Jaime Olavarria;Richard C. van Sluyters

  • The overall pattern of ocular dominance bands in cat visual cortex.

    PA Anderson;J Olavarria;RC Van Sluyters

  • Evidence for the complementary organization of callosal and thalamic connections within rat somatosensory cortex.

    Jaime Olavarria;Richard C. Van Sluyters;Herbert P. Killackey

  • Relation of callosal and striate-extrastriate cortical connections in the rat: Morphological definition of extrastriate visual areas

    J. Olavarria;V. M. Montero

  • Development of visual callosal connections in neonatally enucleated rats

    J. Olavarria;R. Malach;R. C. Van Sluyters

  • Callosal connections of the posterior neocortex in normal-eyed, congenitally anophthalmic, and neonatally enucleated mice.

    Jaime Olavarria;Richard C. Van Sluyters

  • Widespread callosal connections in infragranular visual cortex of the rat.

    Jaime Olavarria;Richard C. Van Sluyters

  • Organization of visual cortex in the mouse revealed by correlating callosal and striate-extrastriate connections

    Jaime Olavarria;Vicente M. Montero

  • Unfolding and flattening the cortex of gyrencephalic brains.

    J Olavarria;R C Van Sluyters

  • Neural responses to visual texture patterns in middle temporal area of the macaque monkey.

    J. F. Olavarria;E. A. DeYoe;J. J. Knierim;J. M. Fox

  • Non‐mirror‐symmetric patterns of callosal linkages in areas 17 and 18 in cat visual cortex

    Jaime F. Olavarria

  • The global pattern of cytochrome oxidase stripes in visual area V2 of the macaque monkey.

    J F Olavarria;D C Van Essen

  • Reciprocal connections between the striate cortex and extrastriate cortical visual areas in the rat

    Jaime Olavarria;Vicente M. Montero;Vicente M. Montero

  • Overall pattern of callosal connections in visual cortex of normal and enucleated cats.

    J F Olavarria;R C Van Sluyters

  • The projection from striate and extrastriate cortical areas to the superior colliculus in the rat

    Jaime Olavarria;Richard C. Van Sluyters

  • Diffusion tensor imaging detects early cerebral cortex abnormalities in neuronal architecture induced by bilateral neonatal enucleation: an experimental model in the ferret.

    Andrew S. Bock;Jaime F. Olavarria;Lindsey A. Leigland;Erin N. Taber

  • Callosal connections correlate preferentially with ipsilateral cortical domains in cat areas 17 and 18, and with contralateral domains in the 17/18 transition zone.

    Jaime F. Olavarria

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher D. Kroenke
Christopher D. Kroenke Oregon National Primate Research Center
Fernando Torrealba
Fernando Torrealba Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Herbert P. Killackey
Herbert P. Killackey University of California, Irvine
James J. Knierim
James J. Knierim Johns Hopkins University
Edward S. Ruthazer
Edward S. Ruthazer Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Michael P. Stryker
Michael P. Stryker University of California, San Francisco
Jeffrey J. Neil
Jeffrey J. Neil Washington University in St. Louis
Robert F. Hevner
Robert F. Hevner University of California, San Diego
Vivien A. Casagrande
Vivien A. Casagrande Vanderbilt University
John L.R. Rubenstein
John L.R. Rubenstein University of California, San Francisco

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