Professor Mayank R. Mehta
Mayank R. Mehta, M.Sc., Ph.D. is Associate Professor of
Neurology, Physics, and Astronomy at the Brain Research Institute,
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
His papers include
Experience-dependent, asymmetric expansion of hippocampal place
fields,
Interaction of sensory responses with spontaneous depolarization in
layer 2/3 barrel cortex,
Experience-Dependent Asymmetric Shape
of Hippocampal Receptive Fields,
Cooperative LTP can map memory sequences on
dendritic branches,
Neuronal Dynamics of Predictive Coding,
The Upshot of Up States in the Neocortex: From Slow Oscillations to
Memory Formation,
and
A neural network model for kindling of focal epilepsy: basic
mechanism.
Mayank earned his Bachelors in physics and mathematics
and Masters in nuclear physics from Bombay University and later
earned his Ph.D. in quantum field theory from the Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of
Arizona, and then because a research scientist at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Watch
Relating Plasticity, Place Cells, Oscillations, and Sleep.
Read
How the brain makes memories: rhythmically and
Brain rhythm associated with learning also linked to running speed,
UCLA study shows.
