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Annual report of my intuition about the brain (2022)
How does the brain work and how can we understand it? To view this big question from a broad perspective at the end of each year, I’m reporting some of the thoughts about the brain that marked me most during … Continue reading
Ambizione fellowship and an open PhD position
I’m glad to share that I am going to start my own junior research group at the University of Zurich in March 2023! As an Ambizione fellow, I will receive funding for my own salary, some equipment, consumables and a … Continue reading
Post-publication review: The geometry of robustness in spiking neural networks
Selected paper: Calaim, Dehmelt, Gonçalves and Machens, The geometry of robustness in spiking neural networks, eLife (2022) The main message: This theoretical neuroscience paper describes an intuitive way how to think about the effect of single spikes in a network … Continue reading
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Annual report of my intuition about the brain (2021)
How does the brain work and how can we understand it? I want to make it a habit to report some of the thoughts about the brain that marked me most during the past twelve month at the end of … Continue reading
Annual report of my intuition about the brain (2019)
How does the brain work and how can we understand it? I want to make it a habit to report some of the thoughts about the brain that marked me most during the past twelve month at the end of … Continue reading
Post-publication review: Somato-dendritic coupling of L5 neurons in V1
It requires more than a quick look at the abstract and the figures to fully understand a research paper and its limitations. One way to get there is to write a summary or critical review of a paper. In a contribution to … Continue reading
Posted in Calcium Imaging, electrophysiology, Microscopy, Reviews
Tagged Dendrites, electrophysiology, photons, theoretical neuroscience
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Post-publication review: “Precise excitation-inhibition balance controls gain and timing in the hippocampus”
It requires more than a quick look at the abstract and the figures to fully understand a research paper and its limitations. One way to go there is to write a summary or critical review of a paper. In a contribution to … Continue reading
Annual report of my intuition about the brain
There are not many incentives for young neuroscientists to think aloud about big questions. Due to lack both of knowledge and authority, discussing very broad questions like how the brain works risks to be embarrassing at best. Still, I feel … Continue reading
Precise synaptic balance of excitation and inhibition
The main paper of my PhD just got published: Rupprecht and Friedrich, Precise Synaptic Balance in the Zebrafish Homolog of Olfactory Cortex, Neuron (2018). (PDF) You might like it if you are also interested in Classical balanced networks Things you … Continue reading
Entanglement of temporal and spatial scales in the brain, but not in the mind
In physics, many problems can be solved by a separation of scales and thereby become tractable. For example, let’s have a look at surface waves on water: they are rather easy to understand when the water wave-length is much larger … Continue reading
A blog about neurophysiology 