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Markku Penttonen is affiliated with the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. Their research spans primarily across the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with a total of 31 publications in the former and 29 in the latter.

The scientist's work focuses on several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Clinical Psychology. This range highlights a comprehensive approach that integrates multiple aspects of brain function and behavior.

Key research topics in Penttonen's work include:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Social Representations and Identity
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

Frequently publishing in specific venues, Penttonen has contributed multiple articles to:

  • Journal of Neurophysiology
  • Hippocampus
  • Psychotherapy Research
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Gezinstherapie Wereldwijd

The scientist collaborates with several frequent co-authors, including Miriam S. Nokia, Virpi-Liisa Kykyri, Petra Nyman-Salonen, Anu Tourunen, and Tomi Waselius. These collaborations suggest a network of professionals working closely within overlapping research fields.

Among recent papers, key titles include:

  • "Measuring Public Speaking Anxiety: Self-report, behavioral, and physiological" (2021) published in Behavior Modification
  • "Cardiac cycle and respiration phase affect responses to the conditioned stimulus in young adults trained in trace eyeblink conditioning" (2022) published in Journal of Neurophysiology
  • "Nonverbal Synchrony in Couple Therapy Linked to Clients' Well-Being and the Therapeutic Alliance" (2021) published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Rhythmic Memory Consolidation in the Hippocampus" (2022) published in Frontiers in Neural Circuits
  • "Irradiation of the head reduces adult hippocampal neurogenesis and impairs spatial memory, but leaves overall health intact in rats" (2020) published in European Journal of Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Hippocampal CA1 interneurons: an in vivo intracellular labeling study

    A Sik;M Penttonen;A Ylinen;G Buzsaki

  • Intracellular correlates of hippocampal theta rhythm in identified pyramidal cells, granule cells, and basket cells

    Aarne Ylinen;Iván Soltész;Anatol Bragin;Markku Penttonen

  • Natural logarithmic relationship between brain oscillators

    Markku Penttonen;György Buzsáki

  • Gamma frequency oscillation in the hippocampus of the rat: intracellular analysis in vivo

    Markku Penttonen;Anita Kamondi;László Acsády;László Acsády;György Buzsáki

  • Pattern and inhibition-dependent invasion of pyramidal cell dendrites by fast spikes in the hippocampus in vivo

    Gyorgy Buzsaki;Markku Penttonen;Zoltan Nadasdy;Anatol Bragin

  • Inhibitory CA1-CA3-hilar region feedback in the hippocampus

    Attila Sik;Aarne Ylinen;Markku Penttonen;Gyorgy Buzsaki

  • Interneurons in the hippocampal dentate gyrus: An in vivo intracellular study

    Attila Sik;Markku Penttonen;György Buzsáki

  • Feed‐forward and feed‐back activation of the dentate gyrus in vivo during dentate spikes and sharp wave bursts

    Markku Penttonen;Markku Penttonen;Anita Kamondi;Attila Sik;Attila Sik;László Acsády;László Acsády

  • Dendritic properties of hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons in the rat: intracellular staining in vivo and in vitro

    G.K. Pyapali;A. Sik;M. Penttonen;G. Buzsaki

  • Termination of Epileptic Afterdischarge in the Hippocampus

    Anatol Bragin;Markku Penttonen;György Buzsáki

  • Epileptic seizure detection: A nonlinear viewpoint

    Niina Päivinen;Seppo Lammi;Asla Pitkänen;Jari Nissinen

  • Coupling between simultaneously recorded BOLD response and neuronal activity in the rat somatosensory cortex

    Joanna K. Huttunen;Olli Gröhn;Markku Penttonen;Markku Penttonen

  • Epileptic afterdischarge in the hippocampal–entorhinal system: current source density and unit studies

    A. Bragina;J. Csicsvári;M. Penttonen;G. Buzsáki

  • Early Detection of Irreversible Cerebral Ischemia in the Rat Using Dispersion of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Relaxation Time, T1ρ

    Olli H J. Gröhn;Mikko I. Kettunen;Heidi I. Mäkelä;Markku Penttonen

  • Auditory cortical event-related potentials to pitch deviances in rats

    Timo Ruusuvirta;Markku Penttonen;Tapani Korhonen

  • The Embodied Attunement of Therapists and a Couple within Dialogical Psychotherapy: An Introduction to the Relational Mind Research Project.

    Jaakko Seikkula;Anu Karvonen;Virpi-Liisa Kykyri;Jukka Kaartinen

  • Sympathetic Nervous System Synchrony in Couple Therapy.

    Anu Karvonen;Virpi-Liisa Kykyri;Jukka Kaartinen;Markku Penttonen

  • Mismatch negativity (MMN) in freely-moving rats with several experimental controls.

    Lauren Harms;W. Ross Fulham;Juanita Todd;Timothy W. Budd

  • Effects of intracellular pH, blood, and tissue oxygen tension on T1rho relaxation in rat brain.

    Mikko I. Kettunen;Olli H.J. Gröhn;M. Johanna Silvennoinen;Markku Penttonen

  • Hippocampo-cerebellar theta band phase synchrony in rabbits.

    J. Wikgren;M.S. Nokia;M. Penttonen

Frequent Co-Authors

György Buzsáki
György Buzsáki New York University
Attila Sik
Attila Sik University of Birmingham
Olli Gröhn
Olli Gröhn University of Eastern Finland
Asla Pitkänen
Asla Pitkänen University of Eastern Finland
Kenneth Hugdahl
Kenneth Hugdahl University of Bergen
László Acsády
László Acsády Institute of Experimental Medicine
Anatol Bragin
Anatol Bragin University of California, Los Angeles
Jozsef Csicsvari
Jozsef Csicsvari Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Patricia T. Michie
Patricia T. Michie University of Newcastle Australia
Juanita Todd
Juanita Todd University of Newcastle Australia

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