Matthew T. Colonnese

This study investigates how early-life visual deprivation affects neural dynamics in adult mouse visual cortex, finding that different forms of blindness alter specific rhythms and firing patterns without fundamentally changing state-dependent regulation.

The paper shows that developing thalamic circuits prevent precise spike correlations through NMDA dominance and lack of inhibition, preserving topographic information.

This study shows that the timing of cortical activity development in mice is not controlled by retinal input but is regulated by homeostatic mechanisms in the thalamocortex.

This study shows that GABAergic interneurons are excitatory in the neonatal hippocampus but inhibitory in the cortex, revealing regional and age-dependent functional differences.

The paper models how changes in inhibitory and excitatory synaptic timing drive a sudden switch in cortical network dynamics during development.