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William W. Lytton is affiliated with SUNY Downstate Medical Center in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of neuroscience. Their research portfolio features a significant focus on neural dynamics and brain function, with a total of 76 publications across the field of neuroscience. In particular, they have worked across multiple subfields including cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, artificial intelligence, and electrical and electronic engineering.

Their published work spans a variety of main topics related to brain science, such as:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and neural engineering
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Advanced memory and neural computing
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Neuroscience and music perception
  • Stochastic dynamics and bifurcation

Lytton has published frequently in venues that include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Neurology, Journal of Neurophysiology, Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, and eNeuro. Their publications address diverse areas in neuroscience and computational modeling.

Some recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Lytton include:

  • "Credible practice of modeling and simulation in healthcare: ten rules from a multidisciplinary perspective," 2020, Journal of Translational Medicine
  • "Modernizing the NEURON Simulator for Sustainability, Portability, and Performance," 2022, Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
  • "Detecting Spontaneous Neural Oscillation Events in Primate Auditory Cortex," 2022, eNeuro
  • "Multiscale model of primary motor cortex circuits predicts in vivo cell-type-specific, behavioral state-dependent dynamics," 2023, Cell Reports
  • "Local glutamate-mediated dendritic plateau potentials change the state of the cortical pyramidal neuron," 2020, Journal of Neurophysiology

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several colleagues across their career. Frequent co-authors include Salvador Durá-Bernal, Robert A. McDougal, Samuel A. Neymotin, Adam J. H. Newton, and Jung-Hyun Lee.

Best Publications

  • Simulations of cortical pyramidal neurons synchronized by inhibitory interneurons.

    W. W. Lytton;T. J. Sejnowski

  • Computer modelling of epilepsy.

    William W. Lytton

  • Unmasking the CA1 Ensemble Place Code by Exposures to Small and Large Environments: More Place Cells and Multiple, Irregularly Arranged, and Expanded Place Fields in the Larger Space

    André A. Fenton;Hsin Yi Kao;Samuel A. Neymotin;Andrey Olypher

  • Parallel network simulations with NEURON

    Michele Migliore;C. Cannia;C. Cannia;William W. Lytton;Henry Markram

  • Attention-Like Modulation of Hippocampus Place Cell Discharge

    André A. Fenton;William W. Lytton;Jeremy M. Barry;Pierre Pascal Lenck-Santini;Pierre Pascal Lenck-Santini;Pierre Pascal Lenck-Santini

  • NetPyNE: A tool for data-driven multiscale modeling of brain circuits

    Salvador Dura-Bernal;Benjamin A. Suter;Padraig Gleeson;Matteo Cantarelli

  • Ketamine Disrupts Theta Modulation of Gamma in a Computer Model of Hippocampus

    Samuel A. Neymotin;Maciej T. Lazarewicz;Mohamed Sherif;Diego Contreras

  • Dynamic interactions determine partial thalamic quiescence in a computer network model of spike-and-wave seizures

    William W. Lytton;Diego Contreras;Alain Destexhe;Mircea Steriade

  • From Computer to Brain: Foundations of Computational Neuroscience

    William W. Lytton

  • GABAA-Mediated IPSCs in Piriform Cortex Have Fast and Slow Components With Different Properties and Locations on Pyramidal Cells

    A. Kapur;R. A. Pearce;W. W. Lytton;L. B. Haberly

  • Control of slow oscillations in the thalamocortical neuron: a computer model

    W.W. Lytton;A. Destexhe;T.J. Sejnowski

  • Open Source Brain: A Collaborative Resource for Visualizing, Analyzing, Simulating, and Developing Standardized Models of Neurons and Circuits

    Padraig Gleeson;Matteo Cantarelli;Boris Marin;Boris Marin;Adrian Quintana

  • Burst firing in identified rat geniculate interneurons.

    J.J. Zhu;D.J. Uhlrich;W.W. Lytton

  • Optimizing synaptic conductance calculation for network simulations

    William W. Lytton

  • 25th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS-2016

    Tatyana O. Sharpee;Alain Destexhe;Alain Destexhe;Mitsuo Kawato;Vladislav Sekulić;Vladislav Sekulić

  • Synaptic information transfer in computer models of neocortical columns

    Samuel A. Neymotin;Kimberle M. Jacobs;André A. Fenton;William W. Lytton

  • Emergence of Physiological Oscillation Frequencies in a Computer Model of Neocortex

    Samuel A. Neymotin;Heekyung Lee;Eunhye Park;André A. Fenton

  • Reaction-diffusion in the NEURON simulator.

    Robert A. McDougal;Michael L. Hines;William W. Lytton

  • Computer simulations of EPSP-spike (E-S) potentiation in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells

    John C. Wathey;William W. Lytton;Jennifer M. Jester;Terrence J. Sejnowski

  • An Intrinsic Oscillation in Interneurons of the Rat Lateral Geniculate Nucleus

    J. Julius Zhu;William W. Lytton;Jin-Tang Xue;Daniel J. Uhlrich

  • Reproducibility in Computational Neuroscience Models and Simulations

    Robert A. McDougal;Anna S. Bulanova;William W. Lytton

  • 25th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS-2016

    Tatyana O. Sharpee;Alain Destexhe;Mitsuo Kawato;Vladisla Sekulić

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael L. Hines
Michael L. Hines Yale University
Gordon M. Shepherd
Gordon M. Shepherd Yale School of Medicine
André A. Fenton
André A. Fenton New York University
Alain Destexhe
Alain Destexhe Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Terrence J. Sejnowski
Terrence J. Sejnowski Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Gaute T. Einevoll
Gaute T. Einevoll Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Michele Migliore
Michele Migliore National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
R. Angus Silver
R. Angus Silver University College London
Henry Markram
Henry Markram École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
John Rinzel
John Rinzel New York University

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