Miguel A Nicolelis, Professor of Neurobiology and Psychology and Neuroscience

Miguel A Nicolelis

Professor of Neurobiology and Psychology and Neuroscience
Ph.D., University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), 1988
mailing address: 327 E Bryan Res Bldg Durham, NC 27710
office: 327 E Bryan Res Bldg
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Representative Publications:   (More Publications)

  1. MA Nicolelis (2003). Brain-machine interfaces to restore motor function and probe neural circuits.. Nature reviews. Neuroscience, England, 4(5), 417-22.
  2. MA Nicolelis (2002). The amazing adventures of robotrat.. Trends Cogn Sci, 6(11), 449-450.  [abs]
  3. MA Nicolelis, JK Chapin (2002). Controlling robots with the mind.. Scientific American, United States, 287(4), 46-53.
  4. MA Nicolelis, S Ribeiro (2002). Multielectrode recordings: the next steps.. Current opinion in neurobiology, England, 12(5), 602-6.  [abs]
  5. DB Katz, MA Nicolelis, SA Simon (2002). Gustatory processing is dynamic and distributed.. Current opinion in neurobiology, England, 12(4), 448-54.  [abs]
  6. MA Nicolelis, EE Fanselow (2002). Thalamocortical [correction of Thalamcortical] optimization of tactile processing according to behavioral state.. Nature neuroscience, United States, 5(6), 517-23.  [abs]
  7. MA Nicolelis (2002). Depression at thalamocortical synapses: the key for cortical neuronal adaptation?. Neuron, United States, 34(3), 331-2.  [abs]
  8. DB Katz, SA Simon, MA Nicolelis (2002). Taste-specific neuronal ensembles in the gustatory cortex of awake rats.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, United States, 22(5), 1850-7.  [abs]
  9. MG Shuler, DJ Krupa, MA Nicolelis (2002). Integration of bilateral whisker stimuli in rats: role of the whisker barrel cortices.. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), United States, 12(1), 86-97.  [abs]
  10. Nicolelis MAL, Fanselow EE (2002) Dynamic shifting in thalamocortical processing during different behavior.  Phil Trans R Soc Lond B 357: 1753-1758..
  11. EE Fanselow, K Sameshima, LA Baccala, MA Nicolelis (2001). Thalamic bursting in rats during different awake behavioral states.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, United States, 98(26), 15330-5.  [abs]
  12. A Das, JG Franca, R Gattass, JH Kaas, MA Nicolelis, C Timo-Iaria, CD Vargas, NM Weinberger, E Volchan (2001). The brain decade in debate: VI. Sensory and motor maps: dynamics and plasticity.. Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas médicas e biológicas / Sociedade Brasileira de Biofísica ... [et al.], Brazil, 34(12), 1497-508.  [abs]
  13. AA Ghazanfar, DJ Krupa, MA Nicolelis (2001). Role of cortical feedback in the receptive field structure and nonlinear response properties of somatosensory thalamic neurons.. Experimental brain research. Experimentelle Hirnforschung. Expérimentation cérébrale, Germany, 141(1), 88-100.  [abs]
  14. JD Kralik, DF Dimitrov, DJ Krupa, DB Katz, D Cohen, MA Nicolelis (2001). Techniques for long-term multisite neuronal ensemble recordings in behaving animals.. Methods (San Diego, Calif.), United States, 25(2), 121-50.  [abs]
  15. DJ Krupa, MS Matell, AJ Brisben, LM Oliveira, MA Nicolelis (2001). Behavioral properties of the trigeminal somatosensory system in rats performing whisker-dependent tactile discriminations.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, United States, 21(15), 5752-63.  [abs]
  16. MG Shuler, DJ Krupa, MA Nicolelis (2001). Bilateral integration of whisker information in the primary somatosensory cortex of rats.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, United States, 21(14), 5251-61.  [abs]
  17. DB Katz, SA Simon, MA Nicolelis (2001). Dynamic and multimodal responses of gustatory cortical neurons in awake rats.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, United States, 21(12), 4478-89.  [abs]
  18. AA Ghazanfar, MA Nicolelis (2001). Feature article: the structure and function of dynamic cortical and thalamic receptive fields.. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), United States, 11(3), 183-93.  [abs]
  19. DJ Krupa, AJ Brisben, MA Nicolelis (2001). A multi-channel whisker stimulator for producing spatiotemporally complex tactile stimuli.. Journal of neuroscience methods, Netherlands, 104(2), 199-208.  [abs]
  20. Katz DB, Simon SA, Nicolelis MAL (2001) Electrophysiological studies of gustation in awake rats. In: Methods in Chemosensory Research (Methods and New Frontiers in Neuroscience Series, M.A.L. Nicolelis and S.A. Simon, eds.) CRC Press, pp. 339-357..
  21. Nicolelis MAL. Actions from thoughts.  Nature.  2001 Jan 18;409 Suppl:403-407..
  22. MA Nicolelis, M Shuler (2001). Thalamocortical and corticocortical interactions in the somatosensory system.. Progress in brain research, Netherlands, 130, 90-110.
  23. Faneslow EE, Reid AP, Nicolelis MAL (2000)  Reduction of pentylenetetrazole-induced seizure activity in awake rats by seizure-triggered trigeminal nerve stimulation. J Neurosci 20: 8160-8168..
  24. Ghazanfar AA, Nicolelis MAL (2000) The space-time continuum in mammalian sensory pathways. In: Time and the Brain (R. Miller, ed.) Harwood Academic Publishers, Sidney, Australia, pp. 97-130..
  25. Ghazanfar AA, Stambaugh CR, Nicolelis MAL (2000) Encoding of tactile stimulus location by somatosensory thalamocortical ensembles. J Neurosci 20: 3761-3775..
  26. Katz DB, Nicolelis MAL, Simon SA (2000) There is more to taste than meets the tongue. Am J Physiol 278: G6-G9..
  27. Krupa DJ, Nicolelis MAL (2000) Network level properties of short-term plasticity in the somatosensory system. Prog Brain Res 128:161-172..
  28. Laubach M, Wessberg J, Nicolelis MAL (2000) Cortical ensemble activity increasingly predicts behavioral outcomes during learning of a motor task. Nature 405: 567-571..
  29. Wessberg J,  Stambaugh CR,  Kralik JD,  Beck PD,  Laubach M, Chapin JK,  Kim J,  Biggs SJ, Srinivasan MA, Nicolelis MAL (2000) Real-time prediction of hand trajectory by ensembles of cortical neurons in primates. Nature 408: 361-365..
  30. Chapin JK, Nicolelis MAL (1999) Principal component analysis of neuronal ensemble activity reveals multidimensional sensory representations. J Neurosci Meth 94: 121-140..
  31. Chapin JK,  Markowitz RS,  Moxon KA, Nicolelis MAL (1999) Real-time control of a robot arm using simultaneously recorded neurons in the motor cortex. Nature Neurosci 2: 664-670..
  32. Fanselow E, Nicolelis MAL (1999) Behavioral modulation of tactile responses in the rat somatosensory system. J Neurosci 19: 7603-7616..
  33. Ghazanfar AA, Nicolelis MAL (1999) Spatiotemporal properties of layer V neurons in the rat primary somatosensory cortex. Cerebral Cortex 9: 348-361..
  34. Katz DB, Simon SA, Nicolelis MAL  (1999) Simultaneous reorganization in thalamcortical ensembles evolves over several hours after perioral capsaicin injections. J Neurophysiol 82: 963-977..
  35. Krupa DJ, Ghazanfar AA, Nicolelis MAL (1999) Immediate thalamic sensory plasticity depends on corticothalamic feedback. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 96: 8200-8205..
  36. Laubach M, Shuler M, Nicolelis MAL (1999) Independent component analyses for quantifying neuronal ensemble interactions. J Neurosci Meth 94: 141-154..
  37. Nicolelis MAL, Ghazanfar AA, Oliveira LMO, Chapin JK, Nelson R, Kaas JH (1998) Simultaneous encoding of tactile information by three primate cortical areas. Nature Neurosci 1: 621-630..
  38. Faggin B, Ngyuen KT, Nicolelis MAL (1997)  Immediate and simultaneous plastic reorganization at multiple levels of the somatosensory system.  Proc Natl Acad Soc USA 94:9428-9433..
  39. Ghazanfar AA,  Nicolelis MAL (1997)  Non-linear processing of tactile information in the thalamocortical loop.  J Neurophysiol 78:506-510..
  40. Lin CS, Nicolelis MAL, Chapin JK (1997) Topography and laminar organization of the incertocortical pathway in rats.  Neuroscience 81: 641-651..
  41. Nicolelis MAL (1997)  Dynamic and distributed somatosensory organization as the substrate for cortical and subcortical plasticity. Seminars in Neurosciences 9:24-33..
  42. Nicolelis MAL, Fanselow E, Ghazanfar AA (1997) Hebb's dream:  The resurgence of cell assemblies.  Neuron 19(2):219-221..
  43. Nicolelis MAL, Ghazanfar AA, Faggin B, Votaw S, Oliveira LMO (1997) Reconstructing the engram:  simultaneous, multiple site, many single neuron recordings. Neuron 18:529-537.
  44. Nicolelis MAL, Lin RCS, Chapin JK (1997)  Neonatal whisker removal reduces the discrimination of tactile stimuli by thalamic ensembles in adult rats.  J Neurophysiol 78: 1691-1706..
  45. Chapin JK, Nicolelis MAL (1996) Neural network mechanisms of oscillatory brain states: characterization using simultaneous multi-single neuron recordings., In: Continuous waveform analysis, R.M. Basheiss and D.J. Vicent (eds). Electroenceph Clin Neurophysiol, suppl 45, pp 113-122..
  46. Lin RCS, Nicolelis MAL, Zhou HL, Chapin JK (1996) Calbindin-containing, non-specific thalamocortical projecting neurons in the rat. Brain Research 711: 50-55..
  47. Nicolelis MAL (1996)  Beyond maps: A dynamic view of the somatosensory system. Braz J Med Biol Res 29: 401-412..
  48. Nicolelis MAL, Oliveira LMO, Lin RCS, Chapin JK (1996) Active tactile exploration influences the functional maturation of the somatosensory system. J Neurophysiol 17: 2192-2196..
  49. Chapin JK, Nicolelis MAL (1995)  Beyond single unit recording: Characterizing neural information in networks of simultaneously recorded neurons.  In: Scale in Conscious Experience, eds. J. King and K.H. Pribram.  Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc., New Jersey, pp. 133-153..
  50. Nicolelis MAL, Baccala LA, Lin RCS, Chapin JK  (1995) Sensorimotor encoding by synchronous neural ensemble activity at multiple levels of the somatosensory system. Science 268: 1353-1358..
  51. Nicolelis MAL, Chapin JK, Lin RCS (1995)  Development of the direct projections from the zona incerta to the primary somatosensory cortex in rats.  Neurosci 65: 609-631..
  52. Bennett-Clarke CA, Nicolelis MAL, Jacquin MF (1994) Proceedings of a satellite symposium of the 1993 Society for Neuroscience Meeting. Somat Mot Res 11: 197-204..
  53. Nicolelis MAL, Chapin JK (1994) Spatiotemporal structure of somatosensory responses of many-neuron ensembles in the rat ventral posterior medial nucleus of the thalamus. J Neurosci 14: 3511-3532..
  54. Nicolelis MAL, Lin RCS, Woodward DJ, Chapin JK (1993) Dynamic and distributed properties of many-neuron ensembles in the ventral posterior medial (VPM) thalamus of awake rats. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 90: 2212-2216..
  55. Nicolelis MAL, Lin RCS, Woodward DJ, Chapin JK (1993) Peripheral block of ascending cutaneous information induces immediate spatiotemporal changes in thalamic networks. Nature 361: 533-536..
  56. Lin CS,  Nicolelis MAL, Schneider JS, Chapin JK (1990) A major direct GABAergic pathway from zona incerta to neocortex. Science 248: 1553-1556..