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Michael A. Long

Researcher at New York University

Publications -  51
Citations -  4597

Michael A. Long is an academic researcher from New York University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Zebra finch & Biological neural network. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 45 publications receiving 3993 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael A. Long include University of Texas at Austin & McGovern Institute for Brain Research.

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Electrical synapses in the mammalian brain.

TL;DR: Electrical synapses are a ubiquitous yet underappreciated feature of neural circuits in the mammalian brain and may be electrically coupled by other connexin types or by pannexins, a newly described family of gap junction proteins.
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Using temperature to analyse temporal dynamics in the songbird motor pathway

TL;DR: Local manipulation of brain temperature should be broadly applicable to the identification of neural circuitry that controls the timing of behavioural sequences and, more generally, to the study of the origin and role of oscillatory and other forms of brain dynamics in neural systems.
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Electrical synapses in the thalamic reticular nucleus

TL;DR: It is concluded that Cx36-dependent gap junctions play an important role in the regulation of neural firing patterns within the TRN, and electrical synapses are a common mechanism for generating synchrony within networks of inhibitory neurons in the mammalian forebrain.
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Support for a synaptic chain model of neuronal sequence generation

TL;DR: This paper found that the subthreshold membrane potential is characterized by a large rapid depolarization 5-10 ms prior to burst onset, consistent with a synaptically-connected chain of neurons in HVC.