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Joshua T. Trachtenberg

Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles

Publications -  49
Citations -  8671

Joshua T. Trachtenberg is an academic researcher from University of California, Los Angeles. The author has contributed to research in topics: Visual cortex & Receptive field. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 46 publications receiving 7801 citations. Previous affiliations of Joshua T. Trachtenberg include University of Texas at Austin & Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.

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Long-term in vivo imaging of experience-dependent synaptic plasticity in adult cortex

TL;DR: The measurements suggest that sensory experience drives the formation and elimination of synapses and that these changes might underlie adaptive remodelling of neural circuits.
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Transient and Persistent Dendritic Spines in the Neocortex In Vivo

TL;DR: In 6-month-old mice, spines turn over more slowly in visual compared to somatosensory cortex, possibly reflecting differences in the capacity for experience-dependent plasticity in these brain regions.
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Absence of CNTNAP2 Leads to Epilepsy, Neuronal Migration Abnormalities, and Core Autism-Related Deficits

TL;DR: A mouse knockout of the Cntnap2 gene is characterized, which is strongly associated with ASD and allied neurodevelopmental disorders, and treatment with the FDA-approved drug risperidone ameliorates the targeted repetitive behaviors in the mutant mice.
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A disinhibitory microcircuit initiates critical-period plasticity in the visual cortex

TL;DR: These findings define the microcircuit changes initiating competitive plasticity during critical periods of cortical development and show that the restoration of evoked firing rates of layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons by PV-specific disinhibition is a key step in the progression of ODP.