Josef Turecek

The paper presents tools to reconstruct spinal cord circuits and identifies modality-specific inhibitory synapses between sensory neurons and inhibitory neurons.

The paper identifies A{delta}-HTMRs as fast-conducting mechanonociceptors that drive protective pain responses through unique spinal reflex circuits.

This study shows that neuronal activity is essential for the development of touch receptors, as genetic disruption of Piezo2 and Nav1.6 leads to structural and functional defects in mechanosensory neurons.

The paper shows that the auditory midbrain encodes high-frequency mechanical vibrations detected by Pacinian corpuscles, enabling behavioral responses to tactile vibrations.

This study records low-threshold mechanoreceptors in freely moving mice and finds that Pacinian neurons encode both self-initiated movements and distant environmental vibrations.

This study identifies a C-LTMR-spinoparabrachial pathway that mediates wet dog shakes in mice by detecting oil droplets and triggering rapid removal of foreign particles from hairy skin.

This study uses 3D reconstructions of mechanosensory end organs to propose a unified mechanism for Aβ RA-LTMR activation through axon protrusions and Piezo2 distribution.

This study examines how the timing of altered touch processing in mouse models of ASD relates to different behavioral outcomes in adulthood.

This study shows that LTMR and PSDC subdivisions of the dorsal column encode different tactile features and converge differently in the DCN.