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Ethan B. Blackwood

University of MinnesotaORCID 0000-0002-3049-0640Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Convergent Control of NREM Sleep and Anesthesia by Prefrontal Layer 5 Extratelencephalic Neurons

Andrzej Z. Wasilczuk, Daiki Takekawa, Joeseph Cichon, Xiaoyan Zhang, Ethan B. Blackwood, Jeffrey Parra-Munevar, Mean-Hwan Kim, William J. Spain, Aaron J. Krom, Hirotaka Kinoshita, Brockton J. Keen, E. Railey White, Max B. Kelz, Nikolai C. Dembrow, Alex Proekt

This study identifies prefrontal cortical neurons that regulate both NREM sleep and anesthesia by modulating their activity and connectivity.

bioRxiv · Oct 10, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience

Toolkit for Oscillatory Real-time Tracking and Estimation (TORTE)

Mark Schatza, Ethan B. Blackwood, Sumedh Sopan Nagrale, Alik S. Widge

The paper introduces TORTE, an open-source toolkit for real-time oscillatory tracking and estimation, enabling accurate phase and amplitude extraction for closed-loop experiments.

Journal of Neuroscience Methods · Nov 14, 2021Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Weak Coupling Between Spontaneous Local Cortical Activity State Switches Under Anesthesia Leads to Strongly Correlated Global Cortical States

Ethan B. Blackwood, Brenna P. Shortal, Alex Proekt

The paper shows that cortical state transitions under anesthesia are local and weakly coupled, not driven by subcortical inputs.

bioRxiv · Nov 7, 2021 · PreprintNeuroscience

A statistical framework to assess cross-frequency coupling while accounting for modeled confounding effects

Jessica K. Nadalin, Louis‐Emmanuel Martinet, Ethan B. Blackwood, Meng-Chen Lo, Alik S. Widge, Sydney S. Cash, Uri T. Eden, Mark Kramer

This paper introduces a statistical framework to assess cross-frequency coupling while accounting for confounding effects, showing improved performance in simulations and applications to in vivo data.

eLife · Oct 16, 2019Peer-reviewedNeuroscience