Abed Ghanbari

Predictable fluctuations in excitatory synaptic strength due to natural variation in presynaptic firing rate

The paper examines how natural variations in presynaptic firing rates affect excitatory synaptic strength over slow timescales in vivo.

Dense Functional and Molecular Readout of a Circuit Hub in Sensory Cortex

The paper combines calcium imaging and spatial transcriptomics to study functional and molecular properties of neuronal subclasses in the somatosensory cortex during a tactile working memory task.

Modeling the short-term dynamics of in vivo excitatory spike transmission

The paper develops a statistical model to disentangle synaptic and non-synaptic effects on spike transmission using pre- and postsynaptic spiking data from in vivo recordings.

Modeling stimulus-dependent variability improves decoding of population neural responses

The paper shows that modeling stimulus-dependent variability improves neural decoding accuracy by using alternative models like CMP and NB instead of the Poisson model.

Estimating short-term synaptic plasticity from pre- and postsynaptic spiking

This paper develops two models to estimate short-term synaptic plasticity from pre- and postsynaptic spike data, showing they can accurately reconstruct synaptic dynamics.