Prof. Matthew Larkum, Ph.D. He focuses on the processing of feedforward and feedback information in the cortex, in particular the contribution of active dendritic properties to the computational power of neocortical pyramidal neurons.

Recent topics include:

Cellular basis for interhemispheric inhibition in the cerebral cortex

Effect of fetal alcohol syndrome on dendritic processing

Dendritic spikes in the tuft and basal dendrites of neocortical pyramidal neurons

Inhibitory control of cortical microcircuits

Affects of common anesthetics on single-cell computation in the cortex

Development of state-of-the-art optical approaches for studying cortical dendritic activity