Vassilis Cutsuridis's Page

Main areas of research:

Computational and mathematical models of:
1. Hippocampus, Microcircuits, Associative Memory
2. Spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP)
3. Prefrontal cortex, dopamine, schizophrenia, antisaccade
4. Active visual search
5. Parkinson's disease, dopamine

Interests/keywords:

sensory-motor, neuromodulation, dopamine, STDP, hippocampus, visual search, antisaccade, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, microcircuits,

Current title/position:

Senior researcher

Current affiliation/employer:

Center for Memory and Brain,
Psychology Department
Boston University

Collaborators:

Michael Hasselmo (Boston University)
Ulrich Ettinger (Munich)
John G. Taylor (King's College, London)

Personal or laboratory homepage:

http://people.bu.edu/vcut/

Publications:

Selected publications:

1) V. Cutsuridis, Stuart Cobb, Bruce P. Graham (2009)
"Encoding and retrieval in the hippocampal CA1 microcircuit model", Hippocampus, in press

2) V. Cutsuridis, Thomas Wennekers (2009)
"Hippocampus, microcircuits and associative memory", Neural Networks, in press

3) V. Cutsuridis, N. Smyrnis, I. Evdokimidis, S. Perantonis (2007)
"A Neural Network Model of Decision Making in an Antisaccade Task by the Superior Colliculus", Neural Networks, 20(6): 690-704

4) V. Cutsuridis, S. Perantonis (2006)
"A Neural Model of Parkinson's Disease Bradykinesia", Neural Networks, 19(4):354-374

5) V. Cutsuridis, Stuart Cobb, Bruce P. Graham. (2009). "How bursts shape the STDP curve in the presence/absence of GABA inhibition". In: C. Alippi et al. (Eds.): ICANN 2009, Part I, LNCS 5768, (Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg), 229–238.