What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Neuroscience
- Neuron
- Neurotransmitter
Neuroscience, Inhibitory postsynaptic potential, Visual cortex, Neural Inhibition and Anatomy are his primary areas of study.
Massimo Scanziani merges Neuroscience with Physics in his research.
His study looks at the intersection of Inhibitory postsynaptic potential and topics like Neurotransmission with Optogenetics, Interneuron and Molecular neuroscience.
His Visual cortex research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Cerebral cortex and Pyramidal cell.
The various areas that Massimo Scanziani examines in his Neural Inhibition study include Biophysics and Membrane potential.
He combines subjects such as Somatosensory system and Auditory cortex with his study of Sensory system.
His most cited work include:
- How Inhibition Shapes Cortical Activity (1010 citations)
- Enforcement of temporal fidelity in pyramidal cells by somatic feed-forward inhibition. (892 citations)
- Inhibition of Inhibition in Visual Cortex: The Logic of Connections Between Molecularly Distinct Interneurons (800 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
Massimo Scanziani mainly investigates Neuroscience, Visual cortex, Inhibitory postsynaptic potential, Excitatory postsynaptic potential and Cortex.
His research on Neuroscience often connects related areas such as Neurotransmission.
The study incorporates disciplines such as Cerebral cortex, Visual perception and Optogenetics in addition to Visual cortex.
His Inhibitory postsynaptic potential study incorporates themes from Somatosensory system and Neuron.
His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Postsynaptic potential, Glutamate receptor, Metabotropic glutamate receptor, Anatomy and GABAA receptor.
His study focuses on the intersection of Cortex and fields such as Superior colliculus with connections in the field of Midbrain and Visual structure.
He most often published in these fields:
- Neuroscience (107.61%)
- Visual cortex (46.74%)
- Inhibitory postsynaptic potential (35.87%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2017-2021)?
- Neuroscience (107.61%)
- Visual cortex (46.74%)
- Cortex (23.91%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
His primary areas of study are Neuroscience, Visual cortex, Cortex, Stimulus and Inhibitory postsynaptic potential.
His study in Visually guided, Cortical circuits, Motor learning, Biological neural network and Neuroplasticity falls within the category of Neuroscience.
The Visual cortex study combines topics in areas such as Visual perception, Perceptual discrimination, Optogenetics and Cortical neurons.
As part of the same scientific family, Massimo Scanziani usually focuses on Cortex, concentrating on Cerebral cortex and intersecting with Midbrain and Visual structure.
His study in Stimulus is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Perception and Excitatory postsynaptic potential.
His work on Sensory system expands to the thematically related Inhibitory postsynaptic potential.
Between 2017 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- Cortical direction selectivity emerges at convergence of thalamic synapses. (68 citations)
- A collicular visual cortex: Neocortical space for an ancient midbrain visual structure (66 citations)
- A collicular visual cortex: Neocortical space for an ancient midbrain visual structure (66 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Neuroscience
- Neuron
- Neurotransmitter
Massimo Scanziani focuses on Neuroscience, Visual cortex, Stimulus, Cortex and Perception.
His work on Perceptual discrimination and Receptive field as part of his general Neuroscience study is frequently connected to Layer and Vasoactive intestinal peptide, thereby bridging the divide between different branches of science.
The concepts of his Perceptual discrimination study are interwoven with issues in Visually guided, Perceptual decision and Electrophysiology.
His Receptive field study combines topics in areas such as Visual system, Sensory system and Visual space.
His Visual cortex study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Cortical neurons, Visual structure, Inhibitory postsynaptic potential, Visual perception and Optogenetics.
His Visual structure research includes themes of Cerebral cortex, Superior colliculus and Midbrain.
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