Gonzalo Viana Di Prisco PUBLICATIONS :

Research papers

1. Karlsson KA, Mohns EJ, Viana di Prisco G, Blumberg MS (2006) Startles set the stage for hippocampal sharp waves in newborn rats. Hippocampus 16(11): 959-965.

2. Viana di Prisco G, Vertes RP (2006) Excitatory Actions of the ventral midline thalamus (Rhomboid/Reuniens) on the medial prefrontal cortex in the rat. Synapse 60(1): 45-55.

3. Viana di Prisco G, Boutin T, Petropoulus D, Brocard F, Dubuc R (2005) The trigeminal sensory relay to reticulospinal neurons in lampreys. Neurosci., 131: 535-546. link

4. Viana di Prisco G, Alford S (2004) Quantitative investigation of Calcium Signals for Locomotion Pattern Generation in the Lamprey Spinal Cord. J Neurophysiol., 92(3): 1796-1806. PDF

5. Albo Z, Viana di Prisco G, Chen Y, Rangarajan G, Truccolo W, Feng J, Vertes RP, Ding M (2004) Is Partial Coherence a Viable Technique for Identifying Generators of Neural Oscillations? Biological Cybernetics 90(5): 318-326.

6. Albo Z, Viana di Prisco G, Vertes RP (2003) Anterior thalamic unit discharge profiles and coherence with hippocampal theta rhythm. Thalamus and Related Systems 2(2): 133-144.

7. Viana di Prisco G, Albo Z, Vertes R, Kocsis B (2002) Discharge properties of the median raphe nucleus during the hippocampal theta rhythm in the rat. Exp Brain Res., 145(3): 383-394 link

8. Kocsis B, Viana di Prisco G, Vertes RP (2001) Theta synchronization in the limbic system: The role of Gudden’s Tegmental Nuclei. Eur J Neurosci., 13(2): 381-388.

9. Vertes RP, Albo Z, Viana di Prisco G (2001) Theta-rhythmically firing neurons in the anterior thalamus: implications for mnemonic functions of Papez's circuit. Neurosci., 104(3): 619-625. link

10. Viana di Prisco G, Pearlstein E, Le Ray D, Robitaille R, Dubuc R (2000) A cellular mechanism for the transformation of a sensory input into a motor command. J Neurosci., 20(21): 8169-8176. PDF

11. Sirota M, Viana di Prisco G, Dubuc R (2000) Electrical microstimulation of the mesencephalic locomotor region elicits controlled swimming in the semi-intact lamprey. Eur J Neurosci., 12(11): 4081-4092.

12. Viana di Prisco G, Pearlstein E, Robitaille R, Dubuc R (1997) Role of sensory-evoked NMDA plateau potentials in the initiation of locomotion. Science 278: 1122-1125.

13. Gray CM, Viana di Prisco G (1997) Stimulus dependent neuronal oscillations and local synchronization in striate cortex of the alert cat. J Neurosci., 17: 3235-3259. PDF

14. Viana di Prisco G, Ohta Y, Bongianni F, Grillner S, Dubuc R (1995) Trigeminal inputs to reticulospinal neurones in lampreys are mediated by excitatory and inhibitory amino acids. Brain Res., 695: 76-80. link

15. Viana di Prisco G, Dubuc R, Grillner S (1994) 5-HT innervation of reticulospinal neurons and other related brain structures in lamprey J Comp Neurol., 342: 23-34.

16. Viana di Prisco G, Dubuc R, Wallen P, Grillner S (1992) 5-hydroxytryptamine modulates spike frequency regulation in reticulospinal neurons involved in the control of lamprey locomotion. Neurosci Letters 134: 279-283.

17. Gonzalez E, Bisiacchi B, Viana G, Di Prisco MC (1992) El programa de promocion del investigador en Venezuela. Interciencia 17: 358-365

18. Viana di Prisco G, Wallen P (1991) Microscopía Confocal Laser: Nuevas aproximaciones al estudio de estructuras tridimensionales. Interciencia 16(6): 344-346.

19. Viana di Prisco G, Wallen P, Grillner S (1990) Synaptic effects of intraspinal stretch receptor neurons mediating movement related feedback during locomotion. Brain Res., 530:161-166.

20. Pericchi LR, Perez-Schael I, Viana di Prisco G, Cuntow, Kapikian AZ, Flores J (1989) Statistical analysis of a rhesus rotavirus vaccine trial to assess protective effect against diarrhea in venezuelan children of 2-4 months of age. Interciencia 14: 199-202

21. Viana di Prisco G (1988) Perspectivas in Neuroinformática. Interciencia 13(5): 256-259

22. Romano EL, Rossi Devivo ML, Hagel I, Lynch NR, Di Prisco-Fuenmayor MC, Lopez RI, Viana G, Soyano A (1988) Ascaris infestation: a possible explanation for the high levels of anti-A IgG observed in the Venezuelan population. Acta Científica Venezolana 39(1): 75-78

23. Lynch NR, Lopez RI, Di Prisco-Fuenmayor MC, Hagel I, Medouze L, Viana G, Ortega C, Prato G (1987) Clinical Allergy 17(3): 199-207

24. Grajski KA, Breiman L, Viana di Prisco G, Freeman WJ (1986) Classification of EEG spatial patterns with a tree-structured methodology: CART. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 33(12): 1076-1086. link

25. Viana di Prisco G, Freeman WJ (1986) Representación espacio-temporal dinámica de la información sensorial en el bulbo olfatorio. Acta Científica Venezolana 37(5): 526-531

26. Freeman WJ, Viana di Prisco G (1986b) Relation of olfactory EEG to behavior: Time series analysis. Behavioral Neuroscience 100(5): 753-763. link (full text)

27. Viana di Prisco G, Freeman WJ (1985) Odor-related bulbar EEG spatial pattern analysis during appetitive conditioning in rabbits. Behav Neurosci., 99(5): 964-978.

28. Viana di Prisco G, Lopez RI, Prieto ML, Di Prisco-Fuenmayor MC (1985) Correlation between RAST and skin tests in atopic patients [Spanish]. Acta Científica Venezolana 36(5-6): 404.

29. Freeman WJ, Viana di Prisco G, Davis GW, Whitney TM (1983) Conditioning of relative frequency of sniffing by rabbits to odors. Journal of Comparative Psychology 97(1): 12-23.

30. Lara R, Viana di Prisco G (1983) Synaptic competition in developmental binocular plasticity. Journal of Theoretical Biology 101(4): 503-527.

31. Viana di Prisco G, Spinelli DN (1981) Observations on cortical plasticity using HRP. Exp Neurol., 7(3): 935-939.

32. Spinelli N, Jensen FE, Viana di Prisco G (1980) Early experience effect on dendritic branching in normally reared kittens. Exp Neurol., 68(1): 1-11.

Book chapters and reviews

1. Dubuc R, Brocard F, Antri M., Fenelon K, Gariepy J-F, Smetana R, Menard A, Le Ray D, Viana di Prisco G, Pearlstein E, Sirota MG, Derjean D, St-Pierre, Zielinski B, Auclair F, Veilleux D (2008) Initiation of locomotion in lampreys. Brain Research Reviews 57(1): 172-182. link

2. Vertez RP, Hoover W, Viana di Prisco G (2004) Theta rhythm: mechanisms and functional implications. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 3(3): 173-200. link

3. Alford S, Schwartz E, Viana di Prisco G (2003) The Pharmacology of Vertebrate Spinal Central Pattern Generators. The Neuroscientist 9(3): 205-216. link

4. Viana di Prisco G, Wallen P, Grillner S (1993) Entrainment of the spinal neuronal network generating locomotion. In: Neuroscience: From Neural Networks to Artificial Intelligence. P.Rudomín, M.A. Arbib, F.Cervantes-Pérez & R. Romo (Eds.) Springer Verlag Research Notes in Neural Computing, Vol. 4.

5. Wallen P, Viana di Prisco G, Dubuc R (1991) Investigating the three-dimensional morphology of fluorescence-labeled neurons using confocal laser scanning microscopy. In: Neurocytochemical Methods Calas, A. & Eugène D. (Eds.) NATO ASI Series, Vol. H 58 Springer-Verlag, pp. 75-87.

6. Grillner S, Wallen P, Viana di Prisco G (1990) Cellular network underlying locomotion as revealed in a lower vertebrate model: transmitters, membrane properties, circuitry, and simulation. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. The Brain. Vol. 55 pp. 779-789. link

7. Viana di Prisco G (1989) Chaotic behavior in neural K-sets. In: Disordered Systems and Biological Models. L. Peliti (Ed) Proceedings. Bogotá. Colombia. 1987. Singapure: World Scientific. pp. 74-78.

8. Freeman WJ, Viana di Prisco G (1986a) EEG spatial pattern differences with discriminated odors manifest chaotic and limit cycle attractors in olfactory bulb of rabbits. In: Brain Theory, Palm, G. & Aersten, A. (Eds) Springer-Verlag. Berlin-Heidelberg, pp. 97-119.

9. Viana di Prisco G (1984) Hebb synaptic plasticity. Progress in Neurobiology 22(2): 89-102.

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