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69
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World Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to nonlinear systems modeling of neural tissue and development of neural prostheses
  • 1998 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • 1986 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1978 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Theodore W. Berger is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with significant contributions to various subfields including cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, electrical and electronic engineering, psychiatry and mental health, and molecular biology.

Their work addresses key topics such as neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, neuroscience and neural engineering, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, advanced memory and neural computing, epilepsy research and treatment, and traumatic brain injury research.

Theodore W. Berger has authored several recent papers, including:

  • "Altered adult neurogenesis and gliogenesis in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy," 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • "Admittance Method for Estimating Local Field Potentials Generated in a Multi-Scale Neuron Model of the Hippocampus," 2020, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
  • "A sparse multiscale nonlinear autoregressive model for seizure prediction," 2021, Journal of Neural Engineering
  • "Developing a hippocampal neural prosthetic to facilitate human memory encoding and recall of stimulus features and categories," 2024, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
  • "Patterned Hippocampal Stimulation Facilitates Memory in Patients With a History of Head Impact and/or Brain Injury," 2022, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Frequently collaborating coauthors in their research include:

  • Dong Song
  • Charles Y. Liu
  • George Nune
  • Xiwei Shé
  • Jean-Marie C. Bouteiller

Theodore W. Berger's publications have appeared most often in the following venues:

  • Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Journal of Neural Engineering
  • Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Over the course of their career, Theodore W. Berger has received several honors including:

  • IEEE Fellow (2010) for contributions to nonlinear systems modeling of neural tissue and development of neural prostheses
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) (1998)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1986)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1978)

Best Publications

  • Compensations after lesions of central dopaminergic neurons: some clinical and basic implications.

    Michael J. Zigmond;Elizabeth D. Abercrombie;Theodore W. Berger;Anthony A. Grace

  • Neuronal plasticity in the limbic system during classical conditioning of the rabbit nictitating membrane response. I. The hippocampus

    Theodore W. Berger;Richard F. Thompson

  • Neuronal substrate of classical conditioning in the hippocampus.

    Theodore W. Berger;Bradley Alger;Richard F. Thompson

  • 17beta-estradiol enhances NMDA receptor-mediated EPSPs and long-term potentiation.

    M. R. Foy;J. Xu;X. Xie;R. D. Brinton

  • Single-unit analysis of different hippocampal cell types during classical conditioning of rabbit nictitating membrane response

    T. W. Berger;P. C. Rinaldi;D. J. Weisz;R. F. Thompson

  • Hippocampectomy selectively disrupts discrimination reversal conditioning of the rabbit nictitating membrane response.

    Theodore W. Berger;William B. Orr

  • Feedforward excitation of the hippocampus by afferents from the entorhinal cortex: redefinition of the role of the trisynaptic pathway.

    Mark F. Yeckel;Theodore W. Berger

  • Long-term potentiation of hippocampal synaptic transmission affects rate of behavioral learning.

    Theodore W. Berger

  • Identification of pyramidal cells as the critical elements in hippocampal neuronal plasticity during learning.

    Theodore W. Berger;Richard F. Thompson

  • A cortical neural prosthesis for restoring and enhancing memory

    Theodore W Berger;Robert E Hampson;Dong Song;Anushka Goonawardena

  • Interactions between dopamine and amino acid-induced excitation and inhibition in the striatum

    Louis A. Chiodo;Theodore W. Berger

  • Hippocampectomy disrupts acquisition and retention of learned conditional responding.

    Robert T. Ross;William B. Orr;Peter C. Holland;Theodore W. Berger

  • Dynamic synapsis for processing a signal in neuron networks

    Liaw Jim-Shih;Berger Theodore W

  • Restoring lost cognitive function

    T.W. Berger;A. Ahuja;S.H. Courellis;S.A. Deadwyler

  • Nonlinear Dynamic Modeling of Spike Train Transformations for Hippocampal-Cortical Prostheses

    Dong Song;R.H.M. Chan;V.Z. Marmarelis;R.E. Hampson

  • Effects of intraventricular 6-hydroxydopamine on the dopaminergic innervation of striatum: histochemical and neurochemical analysis.

    Shao-Pii Onn;Theodore W. Berger;Edward M. Stricker;Michael J. Zigmond

  • Developing a hippocampal neural prosthetic to facilitate human memory encoding and recall

    Robert E Hampson;Dong Song;Brian S Robinson;Dustin Fetterhoff

  • Hippocampal substrate of classical conditioning

    R. F. Thompson;T. W. Berger;S. D. Berry;F. K. Hoehler

  • Hyperinnervation of the striatum by dorsal raphe afferents after dopamine-depleting brain lesions in neonatal rats.

    Theodore W. Berger;Sushma Kaul;Edward M. Stricker;Michael J. Zigmond

  • Hippocampal polymorph neurons are the cells of origin for ipsilateral association and commissural afferents to the dentate gyrus.

    Theodore W. Berger;Susan Semple-Rowland;Julia L. Basset

  • Isolated NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic responses express both LTP and LTD.

    X. Xie;T. W. Berger;G. Barrionuevo

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert E. Hampson
Robert E. Hampson Wake Forest University
Sam A. Deadwyler
Sam A. Deadwyler Wake Forest University
Greg A. Gerhardt
Greg A. Gerhardt University of Kentucky
Michel Baudry
Michel Baudry Western University of Health Sciences
Richard F. Thompson
Richard F. Thompson University of Southern California
Michael J. Zigmond
Michael J. Zigmond University of Pittsburgh
Anthony A. Grace
Anthony A. Grace University of Pittsburgh
Ellis Meng
Ellis Meng University of Southern California
German Barrionuevo
German Barrionuevo University of Pittsburgh
Roberta Diaz Brinton
Roberta Diaz Brinton University of Arizona

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