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2007

Overview

Massimo Scanziani is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Neuroscience, with a particular focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Additional areas of study include Sensory Systems, Neurology, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The core topics explored in Scanziani's work encompass:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Vestibular and auditory disorders

Recent publications by Scanziani cover a variety of aspects within neuroscience and vision science. These include:

  • Feedback generates a second receptive field in neurons of the visual cortex, 2020, Nature
  • A Disinhibitory Circuit for Contextual Modulation in Primary Visual Cortex, 2020, Neuron
  • How Cortical Circuits Implement Cortical Computations: Mouse Visual Cortex as a Model, 2021, Annual Review of Neuroscience
  • A cognitive process occurring during sleep is revealed by rapid eye movements, 2022, Science
  • Head Movements Control the Activity of Primary Visual Cortex in a Luminance-Dependent Manner, 2020, Neuron

Scanziani frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature, Neuron, Annual Review of Neuroscience, and Science. The most frequent venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Neuron
  • Annual Review of Neuroscience
  • Science

Collaborative efforts are notable in Scanziani's research, with frequent coauthors including Andreas Keller, Morgane Roth, Guy Bouvier, Mario Dipoppa, and Kenneth D. Miller. These collaborations contribute to a diverse range of studies in neural circuits and cortical processing.

Best Publications

  • How Inhibition Shapes Cortical Activity

    Jeffery S. Isaacson;Massimo Scanziani

  • Enforcement of temporal fidelity in pyramidal cells by somatic feed-forward inhibition.

    Frédéric Pouille;Massimo Scanziani

  • Inhibition of Inhibition in Visual Cortex: The Logic of Connections Between Molecularly Distinct Interneurons

    Carsten K Pfeffer;Mingshan Xue;Miao He;Z Josh Huang

  • New insights into the classification and nomenclature of cortical GABAergic interneurons

    Javier DeFelipe;Pedro L. López-Cruz;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Concha Bielza

  • Equalizing excitation–inhibition ratios across visual cortical neurons

    Mingshan Xue;Bassam V. Atallah;Massimo Scanziani

  • A neural circuit for spatial summation in visual cortex

    Hillel Adesnik;William Bruns;Hiroki Taniguchi;Z. Josh Huang

  • Parvalbumin-Expressing Interneurons Linearly Transform Cortical Responses to Visual Stimuli

    Bassam V. Atallah;William Bruns;Matteo Carandini;Massimo Scanziani

  • Somatosensory Integration Controlled by Dynamic Thalamocortical Feed-Forward Inhibition

    Laetitia Gabernet;Shantanu P. Jadhav;Daniel E. Feldman;Matteo Carandini

  • Instantaneous Modulation of Gamma Oscillation Frequency by Balancing Excitation with Inhibition

    Bassam V. Atallah;Massimo Scanziani

  • Routing of spike series by dynamic circuits in the hippocampus

    Frédéric Pouille;Massimo Scanziani

  • Distinct short-term plasticity at two excitatory synapses in the hippocampus

    Paul A. Salin;Massimo Scanziani;Robert C. Malenka;Roger A. Nicoll

  • Gain control by layer six in cortical circuits of vision

    Shawn R. Olsen;Dante S. Bortone;Hillel Adesnik;Massimo Scanziani

  • Electrophysiology in the age of light

    Massimo Scanziani;Michael Häusser

  • Use-dependent increases in glutamate concentration activate presynaptic metabotropic glutamate receptors.

    Massimo Scanziani;Paul A. Salin;Kaspar E. Vogt;Robert C. Malenka

  • Supralinear increase of recurrent inhibition during sparse activity in the somatosensory cortex.

    Christoph Kapfer;Lindsey L Glickfeld;Bassam V Atallah;Massimo Scanziani

  • GABA Spillover Activates Postsynaptic GABAB Receptors to Control Rhythmic Hippocampal Activity

    Massimo Scanziani

  • Competing on the edge

    Massimo Scanziani

  • Lateral competition for cortical space by layer-specific horizontal circuits

    Hillel Adesnik;Massimo Scanziani

  • Presynaptic inhibition of miniature excitatory synaptic currents by baclofen and adenosine in the hippocampus

    Massimo Scanziani;Marco Capogna;Beat H. Gähwiler;Scott M. Thompson

  • Tuned thalamic excitation is amplified by visual cortical circuits

    Anthony D Lien;Massimo Scanziani

  • Inhibition of uptake unmasks rapid extracellular turnover of glutamate of nonvesicular origin

    D. Jabaudon;K. Shimamoto;Y. Yasuda-Kamatani;M. Scanziani

Frequent Co-Authors

Beat H. Gähwiler
Beat H. Gähwiler University of Zurich
Scott M. Thompson
Scott M. Thompson University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Hillel Adesnik
Hillel Adesnik University of California, Berkeley
Mark H. Tuszynski
Mark H. Tuszynski University of California, San Diego
James M. Conner
James M. Conner University of California, San Diego
Roger A. Nicoll
Roger A. Nicoll University of California, San Francisco
Robert C. Malenka
Robert C. Malenka Stanford University
Matteo Carandini
Matteo Carandini University College London
Marco Capogna
Marco Capogna Aarhus University
Denis Jabaudon
Denis Jabaudon University of Geneva

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