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Overview

Matthew E. Larkum is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a significant body of work contributing to both cognitive neuroscience and cellular and molecular neuroscience. They also engage with topics related to social psychology, biophysics, and biomedical engineering.

The main fields of study covered by Larkum's publications include:

  • Neuroscience

Within these broader categories, the subfields of study include:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Biophysics
  • Biomedical Engineering

Their research addresses a variety of topics, highlighting areas such as:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research

Larkum has contributed multiple publications to leading scientific venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Science
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Trends in Neurosciences

Their recent scholarly articles exemplify their research interests and are as follows:

  • Dendritic action potentials and computation in human layer 2/3 cortical neurons, 2020, Science
  • General Anesthesia Decouples Cortical Pyramidal Neurons, 2020, Cell
  • Cellular Mechanisms of Conscious Processing, 2020, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Active dendritic currents gate descending cortical outputs in perception, 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • Perirhinal input to neocortical layer 1 controls learning, 2020, Science

Their collaborations span multiple researchers with repeated joint publications, including:

  • Robert N. S. Sachdev
  • Jaan Aru
  • Timothy A. Zolnik
  • Albert Gidon
  • Mototaka Suzuki

Best Publications

  • A new cellular mechanism for coupling inputs arriving at different cortical layers.

    Matthew E. Larkum;J. Julius Zhu;Bert Sakmann

  • A cellular mechanism for cortical associations: an organizing principle for the cerebral cortex.

    Matthew Larkum

  • Synaptic integration in tuft dendrites of layer 5 pyramidal neurons: a new unifying principle.

    Matthew E. Larkum;Thomas Nevian;Maya Sandler;Alon Polsky

  • Dendritic action potentials and computation in human layer 2/3 cortical neurons.

    Albert Gidon;Timothy Adam Zolnik;Pawel Fidzinski;Felix Bolduan

  • Active Properties of Neocortical Pyramidal Neuron Dendrites

    Guy Major;Matthew E. Larkum;Jackie Schiller

  • Dendritic mechanisms underlying the coupling of the dendritic with the axonal action potential initiation zone of adult rat layer 5 pyramidal neurons

    Matthew E. Larkum;J. Julius Zhu;Bert Sakmann

  • Properties of basal dendrites of layer 5 pyramidal neurons: a direct patch-clamp recording study.

    Thomas Nevian;Matthew E Larkum;Alon Polsky;Jackie Schiller

  • Active cortical dendrites modulate perception.

    Naoya Takahashi;Thomas G. Oertner;Peter Hegemann;Matthew E. Larkum

  • Dendritic encoding of sensory stimuli controlled by deep cortical interneurons

    Masanori Murayama;Enrique Pérez-Garci;Thomas Nevian;Tobias Bock

  • Top-down Dendritic Input Increases the Gain of Layer 5 Pyramidal Neurons

    Matthew E. Larkum;Walter Senn;Hans-R. Lüscher

  • A Top-Down Cortical Circuit for Accurate Sensory Perception.

    Satoshi Manita;Takayuki Suzuki;Chihiro Homma;Takashi Matsumoto

  • NMDA spikes enhance action potential generation during sensory input

    Lucy M Palmer;Adam S Shai;James E Reeve;Harry L Anderson

  • Calcium electrogenesis in distal apical dendrites of layer 5 pyramidal cells at a critical frequency of back-propagating action potentials

    Matthew E. Larkum;Katharina Kaiser;Bert Sakmann

  • High I h Channel Density in the Distal Apical Dendrite of Layer V Pyramidal Cells Increases Bidirectional Attenuation of EPSPs

    Thomas Berger;Matthew E. Larkum;Hans R. Lüscher

  • Coincidence detection in pyramidal neurons is tuned by their dendritic branching pattern.

    Andreas T. Schaefer;Matthew E. Larkum;Bert Sakmann;Arnd Roth

  • The cellular basis of gabab-mediated interhemispheric inhibition

    Lucy M. Palmer;Jan M. Schulz;Sean C. Murphy;Debora Ledergerber

  • The GABAB1b isoform mediates long-lasting inhibition of dendritic Ca2+ spikes in layer 5 somatosensory pyramidal neurons.

    Enrique Pérez-Garci;Martin Gassmann;Bernhard Bettler;Matthew E. Larkum

  • Synaptic clustering by dendritic signalling mechanisms.

    Matthew E Larkum;Thomas Nevian

  • General Anesthesia Decouples Cortical Pyramidal Neurons.

    Mototaka Suzuki;Matthew E. Larkum

  • Cellular Mechanisms of Conscious Processing.

    Jaan Aru;Jaan Aru;Mototaka Suzuki;Matthew E. Larkum;Matthew E. Larkum

  • Signaling of layer 1 and whisker-evoked Ca2+ and Na+ action potentials in distal and terminal dendrites of rat neocortical pyramidal neurons in vitro and in vivo

    Matthew E. Larkum;J. Julius Zhu

  • Functional fluorescent Ca2+ indicator proteins in transgenic mice under TET control.

    Mazahir T Hasan;Rainer W Friedrich;Thomas Euler;Matthew E Larkum

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Brecht
Michael Brecht Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Walter Senn
Walter Senn University of Bern
Fritjof Helmchen
Fritjof Helmchen University of Zurich
Michael Häusser
Michael Häusser University College London
William N. Ross
William N. Ross New York Medical College
Valery Grinevich
Valery Grinevich Heidelberg University
Hans-Rudolf Lüscher
Hans-Rudolf Lüscher University of Bern
Idan Segev
Idan Segev Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ehud Ahissar
Ehud Ahissar Weizmann Institute of Science
Imre Vida
Imre Vida Charité - University Medicine Berlin

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