Principal Investigator
Roberto Fernández Galán, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurosciences
Mount Sinai Research Scholar
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
Contact Information
Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine
Department of Neurosciences, Room E-725
10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-4975, USA
Phone: (001) 216 368 0811
Email: rfgalan at case dot edu
We combine theoretical, computational and experimental methods to study single-neuron and network dynamics. Here are some samples of current and past research:
• Reverse-engineering large-scale brain connectivity from spectral properties of the EEG. [more]
• Effect of colored noise on the frequency of neuronal oscillators. [more]
• Spontaneous activity and neural network architecture. [more]
• Neuronal synchronization in the respiratory pattern generator. [more]
• Optimal stimuli and spike-time reliability. [more]
• Stochastic synchronization: a robust mechanism to generate beta/gamma oscillations. [more]
• Phase-oscillator models of single-neuron dynamics. [more]
• Mechanisms underlying the emergence of synchronized neural assemblies. [more]
• Numerical solution of the Fokker-Planck equation with the finite element method. [more]
• Attractors of network dynamics in the olfactory system of an insect. [more]
• Memory traces and Hebbian reverberations in an insect's brain. [more]
We also collaborate with several intramural and extramural research groups:
Dr. Thomas (TED) Dick and Dr. David Baekey, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University: We investigate the role of neuronal synchronization and of balanced excitation and inhibition in respiratory control.
Dr. José Luis Pérez Velázquez, SickKids and University of Toronto: We investigate the emergence of coherent neuronal activity in the brain, with special emphasis on epileptic seizures.
Dr. Kevin C. Daly, West Virginia University: We investigate oscillatory activity and neuronal synchrony in the olfactory system of an insect.
Galán Lab