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PREPRINTS and Refereed Abstracts

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Gomez LC, Aatresh A, Faryal M, Lee S, Lin MZ, Ji N, Feldman DE. Circuit mechanisms underlying sensory prediction errors in S1 cortex using 2-photon voltage imaging.  COSYNE 2026, conference proceeding.

Vandemark K, Monday HR, Rodriguez L, Zhao M, Lee M, Ahituv A, Satapathy A, Page NF, An K, Hamada E, Ahituv N, Bender KJ, Feldman DE.  Degraded sensory coding in a mouse model of Scn2a-related disorder and its rescue by CRISPRa gene activation. Preprint: bioRxiv 2025, 10.64898/2025.12.13.694145.

H.R. Monday, A.M. Nieto, S.A. Yohannes, S. Luxu, K.W. Wong, F.E. Bolio, D.E. Feldman. Physiological and molecular impairment of PV circuit homeostasis in mouse models of autism. Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.01.08.632056; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.08.632056

Lee S, Zhang G, Gomez LC, Testa-Silva G, Hao YA, Hiramoto A, Jiang D, Roth RH, Ding J, Clandinin TR, Roska B, Feldman D, Ji N, Lin MZ (2024).  Improving positively tuned voltage indicators for brightness and kinetics. Preprint: bioRxiv 2024.06.21.599617; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.21.599617

PRIMARY PAPERS

(*Equal authorship)

Ramamurthy DL, Rodriguez L, Cen C, Li S, Chen A, Feldman DE. (2025). Reward history guides focal attention in whisker somatosensory cortex. Nat. Commun. 2025, Jul 1;16(1):5580. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-60592-w.  Originally posted as preprint: bioRxiv 2024.07.17.603927.

Garderes PM*, Chin N*, Feldman DE, Bouchard KE (2025). Multiscale Investigations of Cortical Processing by Integrating Laminar Polytrodes and Optogenetics with Micro Electrocorticography in Rodents.  J. Vis. Exp. (219), e67983, doi:10.3791/67983 (2025).

Butrus S*, Monday HR*, Yoo CJ, Feldman DE#, Shekhar K#. (2025). Molecular states underlying neuronal cell type development and plasticity in the whisker cortex.  PLoS Biol. 2025 May 14;23(5):e3003176. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003176. Originally posted as preprint: bioRxiv 2024.10.07.617106. (* = co-first, # = co-corresponding)

Hao YA, Lee S, Roth RH, Natale S, Gomez L, Taxidis J, O'Neill PS, Villette V, Bradley J, Wang Z, Jiang D, Zhang G, Sheng M, Lu D, Boyden E, Delvendahl I, Golshani P, Wernig M, Feldman DE, Ji N, Ding J, Südhof TC, Clandinin TR, Lin MZ (2024).  A fast and responsive voltage indicator with enhanced sensitivity for unitary synaptic events.  Neuron 2024 Sep 17:S0896-6273(24)00643-3.

Wang HC, Feldman DE (2024). Degraded tactile coding in the Cntnap2 mouse model of autism. Cell Rep. 2024 Aug 6;43(8):114612.doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024. Originally posted as a preprint: bioRxiv 560240.

Ramamurthy DL, Chen A, Zhou J, Park C, Huang PC, Bharghavan P, Krishna G, Liu J, Casale K, Feldman DE (2023). VIP interneurons in sensory cortex encode sensory and action signals but not direct reward signals. Curr Biol. Jul 18:S0960-9822(23)00872-2.

Wang HC, LeMessurier AM, Feldman DE (2022). Tuning instability of non-columnar neurons in the salt-and-pepper whisker map in somatosensory cortex.  Nat Commun. Nov 3;13(1):6611.

Isett BR, Feldman DE.  Cortical coding of whisking phase during surface whisking (2020). Current Biology Jun 5: S0960-9822(20)30751-X.

LeMessurier AM, Laboy-Juárez KJ, McClain K, Chen S, Nguyen TM, Feldman DE (2019). Enrichment drives emergence of functional columns and improves sensory coding in the whisker map in L2/3 of mouse S1.  eLife, 8. pii: e46321. doi: 10.7554/eLife.46321. 

Laboy-Juarez KJ, Ahn S, Feldman DE. (2019) A normalized template matching method for improving spike detection in extracellular voltage recordings. Scientific Reports, 9, 12087 (2019)

Laboy-Juárez KJ*, Langberg T, Ahn S, Feldman DE (2019).  Elementary motion sequence detectors in whisker somatosensory cortex.  Nature Neuroscience, 22(9):1438-1449.

Antoine MW*, Langberg T*, Schnepel P*, Feldman DE. (2019) Increased excitation-inhibition ratio stabilizes synapse and circuit excitability in four autism mouse models. Neuron, 101(4) 648-661

Gainey MA, Aman JW, Feldman DE. (2018) Rapid disinhibition by adjustment of PV intrinsic excitability during whisker map plasticity in mouse S1. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(20) 4829-4839

Isett BR, Feasal SH, Lane MA, Feldman DE. (2018) Slip-based coding of local shape and texture in mouse S1. Neuron 97: 1-16. 

McGuire LM*, Telian G*, Laboy-Juárez KJ*, Miyashita T, Lee DJ, Smith KA, Feldman DE. (2016) Short time-scale sensory coding in S1 during discrimination of whisker vibrotactile sequences. PLoS Biology, 14(8):e1002549.

Gainey MA*, Wolfe R*, Pourzia O, Feldman DE. (2016) Whisker deprivation drives two phases of inhibitory synapse weakening in layer 4 of rat somatosensory cortex. PLoS ONE, Feb 3;11(2):e0148227.

Clancy KB, Schnepel P, Rao AT, Feldman DE (2015) Structure of a single whisker representation in layer 2 of mouse somatosensory cortex. J. Neurosci., 35: 3946-58.

Elstrott J, Clancy K, Jafri H, Akimenko I, Feldman DE (2014) Cellular mechanisms for response heterogeneity among L2/3 pyramidal cells in whisker somatosensory cortex. J. Neurophysiol., 112: 233-48.

Clancy KB*, Koralek AC*, Costa RM†, Feldman DE†, Carmena JM† (2014). Volitional modulation of optically recorded calcium signals during neuroprosthetic learning. Nat. Neurosci., 17: 807-9.

Li L, Gainey MA, Goldbeck JE, Feldman DE (2014). Rapid homeostasis by disinhibition during whisker map plasticity. Proc. Natl. Acad Sci. USA, 111: 1616-21.

Shao YR, Isett BR, Miyashita T, Chung J, Pourzia O, Gasperini RJ, Feldman DE (2013) Plasticity of recurrent L2/3 inhibition and gamma oscillations by whisker experience. Neuron, 80: 210-22.

Miyashita T, Shao YR, Chung J, Pourzia O, Feldman DE (2013) Long-term channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2) expression can induce abnormal axonal morphology and targeting in cerebral cortex. Front. Neural Circuits, 31 January 2013 | doi: 10.3389/fncir.2013.00008

Miyashita T, Feldman DE (2013) Behavioral detection of passive whisker stimuli requires somatosensory cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 23: 1655-62.

House DRC, Elstrott J, Koh E, Chung J, Feldman DE (2011) Parallel regulation of feedforward inhibition and excitation during whisker map plasticity. Neuron, 72: 819-31.

Morita T, Kang H, Wolfe J, Jadhav SP, Feldman DE (2011) Psychometric curve and behavioral strategies for whisker-based texture discrimination in rats. PLoS ONE 6(6): e20437. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020437.

Li L, Bender KJ, Drew PJ, Jadhav SP, Sylwestrak E, Feldman DE (2009). Endocannabinoid signaling is required for development and critical period plasticity of the whisker map in somatosensory cortex. Neuron, 64(4):537-49.

Jadhav S, Wolfe J, Feldman DE (2009). Sparse temporal coding of elementary tactile features during active whisker sensation. Nature Neuroscience, 12: 792-800.

Drew PJ, Feldman DE (2009) Intrinsic signal imaging of deprivation-induced contraction of whisker representations in rat somatosensory cortex. Cerebral Cortex 19(2):331-48.

Wolfe J, Hill DN, Pahlavan S, Drew PJ, Kleinfeld D, Feldman DE (2008). Slip-stick events versus differential resonance in texture coding in the whisker system. PLoS Biol. 2008 6(8):e215.

Brasier DJ, Feldman DE (2008). Synapse-specific expression of functional presynaptic NMDA receptors in rat somatosensory cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, Feb 27, 2008 .

Drew PJ, Feldman DE (2007). Representation of moving wavefronts of whisker deflection in rat somatosensory cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 98:1566-80.

Jacob V, Brasier DJ, Erchova I, Feldman D, Shulz DE (2007). Spike timing-dependent synaptic depression in the in vivo barrel cortex of the rat. Journal of Neuroscience 27: 1271-84.

Deshmukh S, Onozuka K, Bender KJ, Bender VA, Lutz B, Mackie K, Feldman DE (2007). Postnatal development of cannabinoid receptor type 1 expression in rodent somatosensory cortex. Neuroscience Jan 5;

Bender VA, Bender KJ, Brasier DJ, Feldman DE (2006). "Two coincidence detectors for spike timing-dependent plasticity in somatosensory cortex." J Neurosci. Apr 19;26(16):4166-77.

Bender KJ, Allen CB, Bender VA, Feldman DE (2006). "Synaptic basis for whisker deprivation-induced synaptic depression in rat somatosensory cortex." J Neurosci. Apr 19;26(16):4155-65.

Gabernet L, Jadhav SP, Feldman DE, Carandini M, Scanziani M (2005) "Somatosensory integration controlled by dynamic thalamocortical feed-forward inhibition." Neuron Oct 20;48(2):315-27.

Foeller E, Celikel T, Feldman DE (2005). "Inhibitory sharpening of receptive fields contributes to whisker map plasticity in rat somatosensory cortex." J Neurophysiol. Dec;94(6):4387-400.

Celikel T, Szostak VA, Feldman DE (2004). " Modulation of spike timing by sensory deprivation during induction of cortical map plasticity." Nat Neurosci. May;7(5):534-41.

Bender KJ, Rangel J, Feldman DE (2003). "Development of columnar topography in the excitatory layer 4 to layer 2/3 projection in rat barrel cortex." J Neurosci. Sep 24;23(25):8759-70

Allen CB, Celikel T, Feldman DE (2003). "Long-term depression induced by sensory deprivation during cortical map plasticity in vivo." Nat Neurosci. Mar;6(3):291-9.

Feldman DE (2000). "Timing-based LTP and LTD at vertical inputs to layer II/III pyramidal cells in rat barrel cortex." Neuron Jul;27(1):45-56.

REVIEWS

Monday HR, Wang HC, Feldman DE (2023).  Circuit-level theories for sensory dysfunction in autism: Convergence across mouse models.  Frontiers in Neurology. Sep 7:14:1254297. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1254297.

LeMessurier AM, Feldman DE. (2018). Plasticity of population coding in primary sensory cortex. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 53:50-56.

Gainey MA, Feldman DE. (2017). Multiple shared mechanisms for homeostatic plasticity in rodent somatosensory and visual cortex. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 372.1715 (2017): 20160157.

Feldman DE (2012). The spike-timing dependence of plasticity. Neuron 75: 556-71.

Shulz DE, Feldman DE. (2012). Spike timing-dependent plasticity. In: Comprehensive Developmental Neuroscience (P Rakic, J Rubenstein, Eds). Elsevier.

Dayan P, Feller MF, Feldman DE. (2011) Editorial Overview: Networks, Circuits and Computation. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 21: 661-3.

Jadhav SP, Feldman DE (2010). Texture Coding in the Whisker System. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol., 20(3):313-8.

Feldman DE (2009). Synaptic mechanisms for plasticity in neocortex. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 32: 33-55.

Feldman DE (2009). Developmental Synaptic Plasticity: LTP, LTD, and synapse formation and elimination. Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (L. Squire, Editor), Oxford: Academic Press.

Corlew R, Brasier DJ, Feldman DE, Philpot BD (2008). Presynaptic NMDA receptors: Newly appreciated roles in cortical synaptic function and plasticity. The Neuroscientist, in press.

Bender KJ, Deshmukh S, Feldman DE (2006). LTD as a mechanism for map plasticity in rat barrel cortex. In: Development and Plasticity in Sensory Thalamus and Cortex (Ed: W. Guido, R. Erzurumlu, and Z. Molnar). Springer.

Feldman DE, Brecht M (2005). "Map plasticity in somatosensory cortex." Science Nov 4;310(5749):810-5.

Foeller E, Feldman DE (2004). "Synaptic basis for developmental plasticity in somatosensory cortex." Curr Opin Neurobiol. Feb;14(1):89-95.

Feldman DE, Allen CB, Celikel T (2003). LTD, spike timing, and somatosensory barrel cortex plasticity. In: Excitatory-Inhibitory Balance: Synapses, Circuits, and Systems (Ed: T. Hensch and M. Fagiolini). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, USA