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Overview

Matthew L. Shapiro is affiliated with Albany Medical Center Hospital in the United States and specializes in neuroscience. Their research spans several subfields within neuroscience including cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, sensory systems, and molecular biology.

The primary topics covered in Shapiro's work include memory and neural mechanisms, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, neural dynamics and brain function, stress responses and cortisol, neural and behavioral psychology studies, olfactory and sensory function studies, as well as fractal and DNA sequence analysis.

Shapiro has contributed to a range of scientific publications, with notable recent papers including:

  • "Flexible spatial learning requires both the dorsal and ventral hippocampus and their functional interactions with the prefrontal cortex," 2020, published in Hippocampus
  • "Post-error recruitment of frontal sensory cortical projections promotes attention in mice," 2021, published in Neuron
  • "Hippocampal signals modify orbitofrontal representations to learn new paths," 2022, published in Current Biology
  • "Hippocampal and Medial Prefrontal Cortex Fractal Spiking Patterns Encode Episodes and Rules," 2023, published in Chaos Solitons & Fractals
  • "Goal Choices Modify Frontotemporal Memory Representations," 2023, published in Journal of Neuroscience

Their work has been featured in a variety of journals, with frequent publication venues including SSRN Electronic Journal, Hippocampus, Neuron, Current Biology, and Chaos Solitons & Fractals.

Shapiro collaborates regularly with several coauthors, among whom are Justin S. Riceberg, Aditya Srinivasan, Kevin G. Guise, Arvind Srinivasan, and Michael R. Goodman. These collaborators have contributed multiple coauthored publications, reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • The Hippocampus, Memory, and Place Cells: Is It Spatial Memory or a Memory Space?

    Howard Eichenbaum;Paul Dudchenko;Emma Wood;Matthew Shapiro

  • Prospective and Retrospective Memory Coding in the Hippocampus

    Janina Ferbinteanu;Matthew L. Shapiro

  • A Map for Social Navigation in the Human Brain.

    Rita Morais Tavares;Avi Mendelsohn;Yael Grossman;Christian Hamilton Williams

  • Impaired learning and LTP in mice expressing the carboxy terminus of the Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein

    J Nalbantoglu;G Tirado-Santiago;A Lahsaïni;J Poirier

  • Cues that hippocampal place cells encode: dynamic and hierarchical representation of local and distal stimuli.

    Matthew L. Shapiro;Heikki Tanila;Howard Eichenbaum

  • Spatial learning and memory following fimbria-fornix transection and grafting of fetal septal neurons to the hippocampus.

    O. G. Nilsson;M. L. Shapiro;F. H. Gage;D. S. Olton

  • Bidirectional changes to hippocampal theta-gamma comodulation predict memory for recent spatial episodes.

    Prasad R Shirvalkar;Peter R Rapp;Matthew L Shapiro

  • Rat Prefrontal Cortical Neurons Selectively Code Strategy Switches

    Erin L. Rich;Matthew Shapiro

  • Hippocampus as a memory map: synaptic plasticity and memory encoding by hippocampal neurons.

    Matthew L. Shapiro;Howard Eichenbaum

  • Basal forebrain projections to the lateral habenula modulate aggression reward

    Sam A. Golden;Mitra Heshmati;Meghan Flanigan;Daniel J. Christoffel

  • Medial Prefrontal Cortex Reduces Memory Interference by Modifying Hippocampal Encoding

    Kevin G. Guise;Matthew L. Shapiro

  • Discordance of spatial representation in ensembles of hippocampal place cells

    Heikki Tanila;Matthew L. Shapiro;Howard Eichenbaum

  • NMDA antagonist MK-801 impairs acquisition but not performance of spatial working and reference memory

    Matthew L. Shapiro;Zografos Caramanos

  • Brain Aging: Changes in the Nature of Information Coding by the Hippocampus

    Heikki Tanila;Matthew Shapiro;Michela Gallagher;Howard Eichenbaum

  • Prelimbic/Infralimbic Inactivation Impairs Memory for Multiple Task Switches, But Not Flexible Selection of Familiar Tasks

    Erin L. Rich;Matthew L. Shapiro

  • The nucleus reuniens of the thalamus sits at the nexus of a hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex circuit enabling memory and behavior

    Margriet J. Dolleman van der Weel;Amy L. Griffin;Hiroshi T. Ito;Matthew L. Shapiro

  • Motivational states activate distinct hippocampal representations to guide goal-directed behaviors

    Pamela J. Kennedy;Matthew L. Shapiro

  • Retrieving Memories via Internal Context Requires the Hippocampus

    Pamela J. Kennedy;Matthew L. Shapiro

  • Spatial memory and N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists APV and MK-801: Memory impairments depend on familiarity with the environment, drug dose, and training duration.

    Zografos Caramanos;Matthew L. Shapiro

  • Plasticity, Hippocampal Place Cells, and Cognitive Maps

    Matthew Shapiro

  • Brain Aging: Impaired Coding of Novel Environmental Cues

    Heikki Tanila;Perttu Sipilä;Matthew Shapiro;Howard Eichenbaum

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard Eichenbaum
Howard Eichenbaum Boston University
Heikki Tanila
Heikki Tanila University of Eastern Finland
Michela Gallagher
Michela Gallagher Johns Hopkins University
Emma R. Wood
Emma R. Wood University of Edinburgh
Paul A. Dudchenko
Paul A. Dudchenko University of Stirling
David S. Olton
David S. Olton Johns Hopkins University
Norman M. White
Norman M. White McGill University
Rebecca D. Burwell
Rebecca D. Burwell Brown University

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