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Jeffry S. Isaacson is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the field of Neuroscience with notable contributions to several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Sensory Systems, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Behavioral Neuroscience.

The scientist's main research topics encompass a variety of areas related to brain function and sensory processing. Key topics in their work include:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research

Jeffry S. Isaacson has published research in several venues, with frequent publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • eNeuro

Their recent papers include:

  • Interhemispheric Callosal Projections Sharpen Frequency Tuning and Enforce Response Fidelity in Primary Auditory Cortex (2020), published in eNeuro
  • Interhemispheric callosal projections enforce response fidelity and frequency tuning in auditory cortex (2020), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Parallel pathways for rapid odor processing in lateral entorhinal cortex: Rate and temporal coding by layer 2 subcircuits (2021), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Fear Learning Regulates Cortical Sensory Representations by Suppressing Habituation (2020), published in UNC Libraries
  • Network-Level Control of Frequency Tuning in Auditory Cortex (2020), published in UNC Libraries

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Bernard J. Slater
  • Hiroyuki Kato
  • Sebastian H. Bitzenhofer
  • Elena A. Westeinde
  • Han-Xiong Bear Zhang

Best Publications

  • How Inhibition Shapes Cortical Activity

    Jeffery S. Isaacson;Massimo Scanziani

  • Local and diffuse synaptic actions of GABA in the hippocampus

    J.S. Isaacson;J.M. Solis;R.A. Nicoll

  • Olfactory reciprocal synapses: Dendritic signaling in the CNS

    Jeffry S. Isaacson;Ben W. Strowbridge

  • Odor representations in olfactory cortex: "sparse" coding, global inhibition, and oscillations.

    Cindy Poo;Jeffry S. Isaacson

  • Glutamate Spillover Mediates Excitatory Transmission in the Rat Olfactory Bulb

    Jeffry S. Isaacson

  • In Vivo Whole-Cell Recording of Odor-Evoked Synaptic Transmission in the Rat Olfactory Bulb

    Jianhua Cang;Jeffry S. Isaacson

  • Cortical Feedback Control of Olfactory Bulb Circuits

    Alison M. Boyd;James F. Sturgill;Cindy Poo;Jeffry S. Isaacson

  • Counting quanta: direct measurements of transmitter release at a central synapse.

    Jeffry S. Isaacson;Bruce Walmsley

  • Flexible Sensory Representations in Auditory Cortex Driven by Behavioral Relevance.

    Hiroyuki K. Kato;Shea N. Gillet;Jeffry S. Isaacson

  • Aniracetam reduces glutamate receptor desensitization and slows the decay of fast excitatory synaptic currents in the hippocampus.

    Jeffry S. Isaacson;Roger A. Nicoll

  • Dynamic Sensory Representations in the Olfactory Bulb: Modulation by Wakefulness and Experience

    Hiroyuki K. Kato;Monica W. Chu;Jeffry S. Isaacson;Takaki Komiyama

  • Intraglomerular inhibition: signaling mechanisms of an olfactory microcircuit

    Gabe J Murphy;Daniel P Darcy;Jeffry S Isaacson

  • Network-Level Control of Frequency Tuning in Auditory Cortex.

    Hiroyuki K. Kato;Samuel K. Asinof;Jeffry S. Isaacson

  • Postsynaptic Mechanisms Govern the Differential Excitation of Cortical Neurons by Thalamic Inputs

    Court Hull;Jeffry S. Isaacson;Massimo Scanziani

  • The uptake inhibitor L-trans-PDC enhances responses to glutamate but fails to alter the kinetics of excitatory synaptic currents in the hippocampus

    J. S. Isaacson;R. A. Nicoll

  • Glutamate-Mediated Extrasynaptic Inhibition

    Jeffry S. Isaacson;Gabe J. Murphy

  • From Dendrite to Soma: Dynamic Routing of Inhibition by Complementary Interneuron Microcircuits in Olfactory Cortex

    Caleb C.A. Stokes;Jeffry S. Isaacson

  • Mechanisms governing dendritic γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) release in the rat olfactory bulb

    Jeffry S. Isaacson

  • Parvalbumin-Expressing Interneurons Linearly Control Olfactory Bulb Output

    Hiroyuki K. Kato;Shea N. Gillet;Andrew J. Peters;Jeffry S. Isaacson

  • Sensory Neuron Signaling to the Brain: Properties of Transmitter Release from Olfactory Nerve Terminals

    Gabe J Murphy;Lindsey L Glickfeld;Zev Balsen;Jeffry S Isaacson

Frequent Co-Authors

Takaki Komiyama
Takaki Komiyama University of California, San Diego
Massimo Scanziani
Massimo Scanziani University of California, San Francisco
Roger A. Nicoll
Roger A. Nicoll University of California, San Francisco
Albert J. Berger
Albert J. Berger University of Washington
Pankaj Sah
Pankaj Sah University of Queensland

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