Selected Publications:
Sjostrom PJ, Turrigiano GG, Nelson SB. (2007) Multiple
forms of long-term plasticity at unitary neocortical
layer 5 synapses. Neuropharmacology. 2007 Jan;52(1):176-84.
[abstract]
Nelson SB, Hempel C, Sugino K. (2006) Probing the transcriptome
of neuronal cell types.Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2006
Oct;16(5):571-6. Epub 2006 Sep 7. Review. [abstract]
Maffei A, Nataraj K, Nelson SB, Turrigiano GG. (2006)
Potentiation of cortical inhibition by visual deprivation.
Nature. 2006 Sep 7;443(7107):81-4. Epub 2006
Aug 23. [abstract]
Nelson SB, Sugino K, Hempel CM. (2006) The problem
of neuronal cell types: a physiological genomics approach.Trends
Neurosci. 2006 Jun;29(6):339-45. Review. [abstract]
Chang Q, Khare G, Dani V, Nelson S, Jaenisch R. (2006)
The disease progression of Mecp2 mutant mice is affected
by the level of BDNF expression. Neuron. 2006
Feb 2;49(3):341-8. [abstract]
Sugino K, Hempel CM, Miller MN, Hattox AM, Shapiro
P, Wu C, Huang ZJ, Nelson SB. (2006) Molecular taxonomy
of major neuronal classes in the adult mouse forebrain.
Nat Neurosci. 2006 Jan;9(1):99-107. Epub 2005
Dec 20. Erratum in: Nat Neurosci. 2006 Feb;9(2):292.
[abstract]
Dani VS, Chang Q, Maffei A, Turrigiano GG, Jaenisch
R, Nelson SB. (2005) Reduced cortical activity due to
a shift in the balance between excitation and inhibition
in a mouse model of Rett syndrome. Proc Natl Acad
Sci U S A. 2005 Aug 30;102(35):12560-5. [abstract]
Song S, Sjostrom PJ, Reigl M, Nelson S, Chklovskii
DB. (2005) Highly nonrandom features of synaptic connectivity
in local cortical circuits. PLoS Biol. 2005 Mar;3(3):e68.
Epub 2005 Mar 1. Erratum in: PLoS Biol. 2005
Oct;3(10):e350.
Maffei A, Nelson SB, Turrigiano GG. (2004) Selective
reconfiguration of layer 4 visual cortical circuitry
by visual deprivation. Nat Neurosci. 2004 Dec;7(12):1353-9.
[abstract]
Sjöström P.J., Turrigiano G.G. and Nelson S.B. (2004)
Endocannabinoid-dependent neocortical layer-5 LTD in
the absence of postsynaptic spiking. J Neurophysiol.
2004 Dec;92(6):3338-43. [abstract]
Watt AJ, Sjostrom PJ, Hausser M, Nelson SB, Turrigiano
GG. (2004) A proportional but slower NMDA potentiation
follows AMPA potentiation in LTP. Nat Neurosci.
[abstract]
Turrigiano GG, Nelson SB. (2004) Homeostatic plasticity
in the developing nervous system. Nat Rev Neurosci.
5:97-107.
Pratt KG. Watt A.J, Griffith LC. Nelson SB, and Turrigiano
GG (2003) Activity dependent remodeling of presynaptic
inputs by postsynaptic expression of activated CaMKII.
Neuron 39:269-281. [abstract]
Myme C, Sugino K, Turrigiano GG and Nelson SB (2003)
The NMDA to AMPA ratio at synapses onto layer 2/3 pyramidal
neurons is conserved across prefrontal and visual cortices.
J. Neurophysiol. 90:771-779. [abstract]
Sjöström P.J, Turrigiano GG, and Nelson SB (2003) Neocortical
LTD via coincident activation of presynaptic NMDA and
cannabinoid receptors. Neuron 39:641-654 (see
also Preview 579-581). [abstract]
Van Hooser SD, Heimel JA. and Nelson SB (2003) Receptive
field properties and laminar organization of lateral
geniculate nucleus in the gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis).
J Neurophysiol. 90:3398-418.
Nelson SB and Van Hooser S (2003) Visual System. Encyclopedia
of Life Sciences, Macmillan Ref. Ltd . In Press.
Nelson SB, Sjöström PJ and Turrigiano GG (2002) Rate
and timing in cortical synaptic plasticity. Phil
Trans R Soc Lond B 357:1851-1857. [abstract]
Nelson SB (2002) Cortical circuits: diverse or canonical?
Neuron 36: 19-27.
Abbott LF, and Nelson SB (2002) Temporal dynamics of
biological synapses. Arbib, M., ed. The Handbook of
Brain Theory and Neural Networks - Second Edition, Bradford
MIT Press, Cambridge, pp. 1156-1158.
Hempel CM, Sugino K and Nelson SB (2002) Multi-unit
spike-triggered averaging: a method for probing the
physiology of central synapses. J. Neurosci. Meth.
120: 121-129. [abstract]
Desai NS, Cudmore RH, Nelson SB, Turrigiano GG. (2002)
Critical periods for experience-dependent synaptic scaling
in visual cortex. Nat Neurosci. [abstract]
Sjostrom PJ, Nelson SB. (2002) Spike timing, calcium
signals and synaptic plasticity. Curr Opin Neurobiol.
2002 Jun;12(3):305-14. [abstract]
Chung S, Li X, Nelson SB. (2002) Short-term depression
at thalamocortical synapses contributes to rapid adaptation
of cortical sensory responses in vivo. Neuron.
34(3):437-46. [abstract]
van Rossum MC, Turrigiano GG, Nelson SB. (2002) Fast
propagation of firing rates through layered networks
of noisy neurons. J Neurosci. 22(5):1956-66.
[abstract]
Sjostrom PJ, Turrigiano GG, Nelson SB. (2001) Rate,
timing, and cooperativity jointly determine cortical
synaptic plasticity. Neuron. Dec 20;32:1149-64.
[abstract]
Abbott LF, Nelson SB. (2000) Synaptic plasticity: taming
the beast. Nat Neurosci. 3 Suppl:1178-83.
[abstract]
Watt AJ, van Rossum MC, MacLeod KM, Nelson SB, Turrigiano
GG. (2000) Activity coregulates quantal AMPA and NMDA
currents at neocortical synapses. Neuron. 26(3):659-70.
[abstract]