Pre-2000 Group Publications

incomplete listing - work in progress (5/24/2007)

(Publications since 2000)

Sterling, P. (1999) Deciphering the retina's wiring diagram. Nature Neurosci 2:851-853 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Demb JB; Haarsma L; Freed MA; Sterling P (1999) Functional circuitry of the retinal ganglion cell's nonlinear receptive field. J Neurosci 19:9756-9767 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Calkins DJ; Sterling P (1999) Evidence that circuits for spatial and color vision segregate at the first retinal synapse. Neuron 24:313-321 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Wang TL; Sterling P; Vardi N (1999) Localization of type I inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate receptor in the outer segments of mammalian cones. J Neurosci 19:4221-4228 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Kawai F; Sterling P (1999) AMPA receptor activates a G-protein that suppresses a cGMP-gated current. J Neurosci 19:2954-2959 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]


Sterling P (1998) "Knocking out" a neural circuit. Neuron 21:643-644 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Rao-Mirotznik R; Buchsbaum G; Sterling P (1998) Transmitter concentration at a three-dimensional synapse. J Neurophysiol 80:3163-72 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Hsu A; Tsukamoto Y; Smith RG; Sterling P (1998) Functional architecture of primate cone and rod axons. Vision Res 38: 2539-2549 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Calkins DJ; Tsukamoto Y; Sterling P (1998) Microcircuitry and mosaic of a blue-yellow ganglion cell in the primate retina. J. Neurosci 18:3373-3385 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Johnson MA, Vardi N (1998) Regional differences in GABA and GAD immunoreactivity in rabbit horizontal cells. Vis Neurosci 15:743-753. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

van Rossum MCW, Smith RG (1998) Noise removal at the rod synapse of mammalian retina. Vis Neurosci 15:809-821. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Vardi N, Morigiwa K, Wang T-L, Shi Y-J, Sterling P (1998) Neurochemistry of the mammalian cone 'synaptic complex'. Vision Res 38:1359-1369. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Vardi N (1998) Alpha subunit of Go localizes in the dendritic tips of ON bipolar cells. J Comp Neurol 395:43-52. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]


Vardi N, Morigiwa K (1997) ON cone bipolar cells in rat express the metabotropic receptor mGluR6. Vis Neurosci 14:789-794. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]


Calkins DJ, Sterling P (1996) Absence of spectrally specific lateral inputs to midget ganglion cells in primate retina. Nature 381:613-615. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Calkins DJ, Tsukamoto Y, Sterling P (1996) Foveal cones form basal as well as invaginating contacts with diffuse ON bipolar cells. Vision Res 36:3373-3381. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Freed MA, Pflug R, Kolb H, Nelson R (1996) ON-OFF amacrine cells in cat retina. J Comp Neurol 364:556-566. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Jiang H, Lyubarsky A, Dodd R, Vardi N, Pugh EN, Baylor D, Simon MI, Wu D (1996) Phospholipase C-beta4 is involved in modulating the visual response in mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 93:14598-14601. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Vardi N, Smith RG (1996) The AII amacrine network: coupling can increase correlated activity. Vision Res 36:3743-3757. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

von Gersdorff H, Vardi E, Matthews G, Sterling P (1996) Evidence that vesicles on the synaptic ribbon of retinal bipolar neurons can be rapidly released. Neuron 16:1221-1227. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]


Kier CK, Buchsbaum G, Sterling P (1995) How retinal microcircuits scale for ganglion cells of different size. J Neurosci 15:7673-7683. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Panico J, Sterling P (1995) Retinal neurons and vessels are not fractal but space filling. J Comp Neurol 361:479-490. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Rao-Mirotznik R, Harkins A, Buchsbaum G, Sterling P (1995) Mammalian rod terminal: Architecture of a binary synapse. Neuron 14:561-569. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Smith RG, Vardi N (1995) Simulation of the AII amacrine cell of mammalian retina: Functional consequences of electrical coupling and regenerative membrane properties. Vis Neurosci 12:851-860. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Smith RG (1995) Simulation of an anatomically-defined local circuit: The cone-horizontal cell network in cat retina. Vis Neurosci 12:545-561. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P (1995) Tuning retinal circuits. Nature 377:676-677. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P, Smith RG, Rao R, Vardi N (1995) Functional architecture of mammalian outer retina and bipolar cells. In: Neurobiology and clinical aspects of the outer retina (Archer S, Djamgoz MBA, Vallerga S, eds), pp 325-348. London UK: Chapman & Hall, Ltd. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Vardi N, Auerbach P (1995) Specific cell types in cat retina express different forms of glutamic acid decarboxylase. J Comp Neurol 351:374-384. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]


Calkins DJ, Schein S, Tsukamoto Y, Sterling P (1994) M and L cones in Macaque fovea connect to midget ganglion cells via different numbers of excitatory synapses. Nature 371:70-72. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Freed MA, Nelson R (1994) Conductances evoked by light in the ON-beta ganglion cell of the cat retina. Vis Neurosci 11:261-269. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Hsu A, Smith RG (1994) Simulating the foveal cone receptive field. In: Computation and neural systems. Volume 3 (Eeckman FH, ed), Kluwer Academic Publishers. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Rao R, Buchsbaum G, Sterling P (1994) Rate of quantal transmitter release at the mammalian rod synapse. Biophys J 67:57-63. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Smith RG (1994) Retina. In: The handbook of brain theory and neural networks (Arbib MA, ed), Bradford Books, MIT Press. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Smith RG (1994) Measurement of simulation speed: Its relation to simulation accuracy. In: Computation and neural systems. Volume 3 (Eeckman FH, ed), Kluwer Academic Publishers. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Vardi N, Kaufman DL, Sterling P (1994) Horizontal cells in cat and monkey retina express different isoforms of glutamic acid decarboxylase. Vis Neurosci 11:135-142. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Vardi N, Sterling P (1994) Subcellular localization of GABAA receptor on bipolar cells in macaque and human retina. Vision Res 34:1235-1246. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]


Nelson R, Kolb H, Freed MA (1993) OFF-alpha and OFF-beta ganglion cells in cat retina. I: intracellular electrophysiology and HRP stains. J Comp Neurol 329:68-84. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Vardi N, Matesic DF, Manning DR, Liebman PA, Sterling P (1993) Identification of a G-protein in depolarizing rod bipolar cells. Vis Neurosci 10:473-478. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]


Cohen E, Sterling P (1992) Parallel circuits from cones to the on-beta ganglion cell. Eur J Neurosci 4:506-520. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Freed MA (1992) GABAergic circuits in the mammalian retina. In: Progress in Brain Research (Mize RR, Marc RE, Sillito AM, eds), pp 107-131. Elsevier Science Publishers. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Freed MA, Smith RG, Sterling P (1992) Computational model of the on-alpha ganglion cell receptive field based on bipolar circuitry. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 89:236-240. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Smith RG (1992) NeuronC: a computational language for investigating functional architecture of neural circuits. J Neurosci Meth 43:83-108. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P, Cohen E, Smith RG, Tsukamoto Y (1992) Retinal circuits for daylight: why ballplayers don't wear shades. In: Analysis and modeling of neural systems (Eeckman FH, ed),pp 143-162. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Tsukamoto Y, Masarachia P, Schein SJ, Sterling P (1992) Gap junctions between the pedicles of macaque foveal cones. Vision Res 32:1809-1815. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Vardi N, Masarachia P, Sterling P (1992) Immunoreactivity to GABAA receptor in the outer plexiform layer of the cat retina. J Comp Neurol 320:394-397. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]


Cohen E, Sterling P (1991) Microcircuitry related to the receptive field center of the on- beta ganglion cell. J Neurophysiol 65:352-359. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Tsukamoto Y, Sterling P (1991) Spatial summation by ganglion cells: Some consequences for the efficient encoding of natural scenes. Neurosci Res Suppl. 15:S185-S198. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]


Cohen E, Sterling P (1990) Convergence and divergence of cones onto bipolar cells in the central area of cat retina. Philos Trans R Soc Lond (Biol) 330:323-328. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Cohen E, Sterling P (1990) Demonstration of cell types among cone bipolar neurons of cat retina. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B 330:305-321. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Smith RG, Sterling P (1990) Cone receptive field in cat retina computed from microcircuitry. Vis Neurosci 5:453-461. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Tsukamoto Y, Smith RG, Sterling P (1990) "Collective coding" of correlated cone signals in the retinal ganglion cell. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 87:1860-1864. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]


Vardi N, Hadani I (1989) Stereopsis impairment during smooth pursuit eye tracking. Brain Behav Evol 33:99-103. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Vardi N, Masarachia P, Sterling P (1989) Structure of the starburst amacrine network and its association with alpha ganglion cells. J Comp Neurol 288:601-611. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]


Freed MA, Sterling P (1988) The ON-alpha ganglion cell of the cat retina and its presynaptic cell types. J Neurosci 8:2303-2320. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P, Eyer J (1988) Allostasis: a new paradigm to explain arousal pathology. In: Handbook of Life Stress, Cogintion and Health (Fisher S, Reason J, eds),pp 629-649. New York, NY: J. Wiley & Sons. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P, Freed MA, Smith RG (1988) Architecture of rod and cone circuits to the On-beta ganglion cell. J Neurosci 8:623-642. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]


Einstein G, Davis TL, Sterling P (1987) Pattern of lateral geniculate synapses on neuron somata in layer IV of the cat striate cortex. J Comp Neurol 260:76-86. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Einstein G, Davis TL, Sterling P (1987) Ultrastructure of synapses from the A-laminae of the lateral geniculate nucleus in layer IV of the cat striate cortex. J Comp Neurol 260:63-75. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Freed MA, Smith RG, Sterling P (1987) Rod bipolar array in the cat retina: pattern of input from rods and GABA-accumulating amacrine cells. J Comp Neurol 266:445-455. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Hadani I, Vardi N (1987) Steropsis impairment during smooth moving random dot pattern. Percept Psychophys 42:158-165. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Smith RG (1987) Montage: A system for three-dimensional reconstruction by personal computer. J Neurosci Meth 21:55-69. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P, Cohen E, Freed MA, Smith RG (1987) Microcircuitry of the on-beta ganglion cell in daylight, twilight and starlight. Neurosci Res (Suppl)6:5269-5285. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]


Cohen E, Sterling P (1986) Accumulation of [3H] glycine by cone bipolar neurons in the cat retina. J Comp Neurol 250:1-7. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Kauffman SA, Smith RG (1986) Adaptive automata based on darwinian selection. Physica 22D:68-82. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

McGuire BA, Stevens JK, Sterling P (1986) Microcircuitry of beta ganglion cells in cat retina. J Neurosci 6:907-918. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Smith RG, Freed MA, Sterling P (1986) Microcircuitry of the dark-adapted cat retina: functional architecture of the rod-cone network. J Neurosci 6:3505-3517. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P, Lampson LA (1986) Molecular specificity of defined types of amacrine synapse in cat retina. J Neurosci 6(5):1314-1324. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P, Freed M, Smith RG (1986) Microcircuitry and functional architecture of the cat retina. Trends Neurosci 9:186-192. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]


McGuire BA, Stevens JK, Sterling P (1984) Microcircuitry of bipolar cells in cat retina. J Neurosci 4:2920-2938. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Solnick B, Davis TL, Sterling P (1984) Numbers of specific types of neuron in layer IVab of cat striate cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 81:3898-3900. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]


Freed MA, Nakamura Y, Sterling P (1983) Four types of amacrines in the cat retina that accumulate GABA. J Comp Neurol 219:295-304. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Hamos JE, Davis TL. Sterling P (1983) Four types of neuron in layer IVab of cat cotical area 17 accumulate 3H-GABA. J Comp Neurol 217:449-457. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Krieger NR, Megill JR, Sterling P (1983) Granule cells in the rat olfactory tubercle accumulate 3H-gamma-aminobutryic acid. J Comp Neurol 215:465-471. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P (1983) Microcircuitry of the cat retina. Annu Rev Neurosci 6:149-185. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]


Mize RR, Spencer RF, Sterling P (1982) Two types of GABA-accumulating neurons in the superficial gray layer of the cat superior colliculus. J Comp Neurol 206:180-192. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P (1982) Identified neurons in the cat retina. In: Changing concepts of the nervous system (Morrison AR, Strick PL, eds),pp 281-293. Academic Press, Inc. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]


Mize RR, Spencer RF, Sterling P (1981) Neurons and glia in cat superior colliculus accumulate [3H]gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). J Comp Neurol 202:385-396. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P, Eyer J (1981) Biological basis of stress-related mortality. Soc Sci Med 15E:3-42. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]


Nakamura Y, McGuire BA, Sterling P (1980) Interplexiform cell in cat retina: Identification by uptake of gamma-[3H]aminobutyric acid and serial reconstruction. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 77(1):658-661. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P, Davis TL (1980) Neurons in cat lateral geniculate nucleus that concentrate exogenous [3H]-gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). J Comp Neurol 192:737-749. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Stevens JK, McGuire BA, Sterling P (1980) Toward a functional architecture of the retina: Serial reconstruction of adjacent ganglion cells. Science 207:317-319. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Stevens JK, Davis TL, Friedman N, Sterling P (1980) A systematic approach to reconstructing microcircuitry by electron microscopy of serial sections. Brain Res Rev 2:265-293. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]


Davis TL, Sterling P (1979) Microcircuitry of cat visual cortex: Classification of neurons in layer IV of area 17, and identification of the patterns of lateral geniculate input. J Comp Neurol 188:599-627. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P (1979) Psychiatry's drug addiction. The New Republic. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P (1978) Ethics and effectiveness of psychosurgery. In: Controversy in psychiatry (Brady, Brodie, eds), pp 126-160. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Eyer J, Sterling P (1977) Stress-related mortality and social organization. Review of Radical Political Economics 9:1-44. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P (1975) Quantitative mappin with the electron microscope. IN: Principles and techniques of electron microscopy. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P, Gestrin P (1975) Goldfish abducens motoneurons: physiological and anatomical specialization. Science 189:1091-1093. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Strick P, Sterling P (1974) Synaptic termination afferents from the ventrolateral nucleus of the thalamus in the cat motor cortex. A light and electron microscope study. J Comp Neurol 153:77-106. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P (1973) Anatomical basis of receptive field properties of the superficial cells. Neurosci Res Prog Bull 13(2):220-224 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P (1973) Quantitative mapping with the electron microscope: retinal terminals in the superior colliculus. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P (1973) Referred cutaneous sensation. Exp Neurol 41:451-456. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P (1971) Receptive fields and synaptic organization of the superficial gray layer of the cat superior colliculus. Vision Res 3:309-328. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P, Wickelgren BG (1970) Function of the projection from the visual cortex to the superior colliculus. Brain Behav Evol 3:210-218. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]


Sterling P, Wickelgren BG (1969) Visual receptive fields in the superior colliculus of the cat. J Neurophysiol 32:1-15. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Wickelgren BG, Sterling P (1969) Effect of the superior colliculus of cortical removal in visually deprived cats. Nature 224:1032-1033. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Wickelgren BG, Sterling P (1969) Influence of visual cortex on receptive fields in the superior colliculus of the cat. J Neurophysiol 32:16-23. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P, Kuypers HGJM (1968) Anatomical organization of the brachial spinal cord of the cat. III. The propriospinal connections. Brain Res 7:419-443. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P, Kuypers HGJM (1967) Anatomical organization of the brachial spinal cord of the cat. II. The motoneuron plexus. Brain Res 4:16-32. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P, Kuypers HGJM (1967) Anatomical organization of the brachial spinal cord of the cat. I. The distribution of dorsal root fibers. Brain Res 4:1-15. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]

Sterling P, Kuypers HGJM (1966) Simultaneous demonstration of normal boutons and degenerating nerve fibres and their terminals in the spinal cord. J Anat 100:723-732. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]


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