Publications

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Structural and functional evidence supports re-defining mouse higher order visual areas into a single area V2

Rowley DP, Sedigh-Sarvestani M (2024) bioRxiv

Comparison of visual area maps in mice and tree shrews, showing proposed changes and phylogenetic relationships.
2024

What and Where: Location-dependent feature sensitivity as a canonical organizing principle of the visual system (review)

Sedigh-Sarvestani M, Fitzpatrick D (2022) Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Visual input sampling based on threats, self-motion, and behavior, highlighting eye position and binocular vision areas.
2022

A Sinusoidal transformation of the visual field is the basis for periodic maps in area V2

Sedigh-Sarvestani M, Lee KS, Jaepel J, Satterfield R, Shultz N, Fitzpatrick D (2021) Neuron

Retinotopy in visual cortex with elevation and azimuth maps, expected and measured retinotopy, and visual field distance plot.
2021

A bright future for the tree shrew in neuroscience research: Summary from the inaugural Tree Shrew Users Meeting

Savier E, Sedigh-Sarvestani M, Wimmer R, Fitzpatrick D (2021) Zoological Research

Tree shrew illustration and phylogenetic tree showing relationships among rodents, rabbits, tree shrews, colugos, and primates.
2021

Thalamocortical synapses in the cat visual system in vivo are weak and unreliable

Sedigh-Sarvestani M, Palmer LA, Contreras D (2019) eLife

Experimental setup in LGN and V1 of a cat, V1 receptive fields, membrane potential traces, and spike average data.
2019

Intracellular, in vivo, dynamics of thalamocortical synapses in visual cortex

Sedigh-Sarvestani M, Vigeland L, Fernandez-Lamo I, Taylor MM, Palmer LA, Contreras D (2017) The Journal of Neuroscience

Intracellular and extracellular recordings in V1 and LGN, receptive field contours, spike clusters, and inter-spike intervals.
2017

DeBruyn and Casagrande manuscripts on tree shrew retinal ganglion cells as a basis for cross-species retina research

Norton TT, Savier EL, Sedigh-Sarvestani M (2022) Visual Neuroscience

2022

Inhibition in simple cell receptive fields is broad and OFF-subregion biased

Taylor MM, Sedigh-Sarvestani M, Vigeland L, Palmer LA, Contreras D (2018) The Journal of Neuroscience

2018

Spatiotemporal evolution of focal epileptiform activity from surface and laminar field recordings in cat neocortex

Bink H, Sedigh-Sarvestani M, Fernandez-Lamo I, Kini L, Ung H, Kuzum D, Vitale F, Litt B, Contreras D (2018) Journal of Neurophysiology

2018

Seizures and brain regulatory systems: Consciousness, sleep, and autonomic systems

Sedigh-Sarvestani M, Blumenfeld H, Loddenkemper T, Bateman LM (2015) Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology

2015

Rapid eye movement sleep and hippocampal theta oscillations precede seizure onset in the tetanus toxin model of temporal lobe epilepsy

Sedigh-Sarvestani M, Thuku GI, Sunderam S, Parkar A, Weinstein SL, Schiff SJ, Gluckman BJ (2014) The Journal of Neuroscience

2014

α2-Adrenergic stimulation of the ventrolateral preoptic nucleus destabilizes the anesthetic state

McCarren HS, Chalifoux MR, Han B, Moore JT, Meng QC, Baron-Hionis N, Sedigh-Sarvestani M, Contreras D, Beck SG, Kelz MB (2014) The Journal of Neuroscience

2014

Second-order receptive field properties of simple and complex cells support a new standard model of thalamocortical circuitry in V1

Sedigh-Sarvestani M, Fernandez-Lamo I, Jaegle A, Taylor MM (2014) The Journal of Neuroscience

2014

Reconstructing mammalian sleep dynamics with data assimilation

Sedigh-Sarvestani M, Schiff SJ, Gluckman BJ (2012) PLoS Computational Biology

2012

Data assimilation of glucose dynamics for use in the intensive care unit

Sedigh-Sarvestani M, Albers DJ, Gluckman BJ (2012) Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

2012

Analyzing large data sets acquired through telemetry from rats exposed to organophosphorous compounds: An EEG study

de Araujo Furtado M, Zheng A, Sedigh-Sarvestani M, Lumley L, Lichtenstein S, Yourick D (2009) Journal of Neuroscience Methods

2009