Michael A. Freed: Selected Publications

Liang Z and Freed MA (2010) The ON pathway rectifies the OFF pathway of the mammalian retina. Journal of Neuroscience 30:5533-5543. [pdf file]

Tokutake, Y and Freed MA (2008) Retinal ganglion cells &mdash spatial organization of the receptive field reduces temporal redundancy. European Journal of Neuroscience 28:914-923 [pdf file]

Xu Y, Vasudeva V,Vardi N, Sterling P, and Freed MA (2008) Different types of ganglion cell share a synaptic pattern. Journal of Comparative Neurology 507:1871-1878 [pdf file]

Sterling P and Freed MA (2007) How robust is a neural circuit. Visual Neuroscience 24: 563-571 [pdf file]

Freed MA (2007) Contributions of bipolar cells to ganglion cell receptive fields. In The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference vol 1, pp 351-359 [pdf file]

Koch K, McLean J, Segev R, Freed MA, Berry MJ, Balasubramanian V, and Sterling P (2006) How much the eye tells the brain. Current Biology 16: 1428-1434 [pdf file]

Zhang LL, Pathak HR, Coulter DA, Freed MA, and Vardi N (2006) Shift of intracellular chloride concentration in ganglion and amacrine cells of developing mouse retina. J Neurophysiol 95: 2404-2416 [pdf file]

Freed MA (2005). Quantal encoding of information in a retinal ganglion cell. Journal of Neurophysiology 94: 1048-1056 [pdf file]

Dhingra NK, Freed MA, Smith RG (2005). Voltage-gated sodium channels improve contrast sensitivity of a retinal ganglion cell. Journal of Neuroscience 25: 8097-8103 [pdf file]

Koch K, McLean J, Berry M, Sterling P, Balasubramanian V, and Freed MA (2004) Efficiency of information transmission by retinal ganglion cells. Current Biology 14: 1523-1530 [pdf file]

Demb JB, Sterling P, and Freed MA (2004). How retinal ganglion cells prevent synaptic noise from reaching the spike output. Journal of Neurophysiology 92: 2510-2519 [pdf file]

Freed MA, Smith RG, and Sterling P (2003) Timing of quantal release from the retinal bipolar terminal is regulated by a feedback circuit. Neuron 38: 89-101 [pdf file]

Freed MA (2000) Rate of quantal excitation to a retinal ganglion cell evoked by sensory input. Journal of Neurophysiology 83:2956-2966 [pdf file]

Freed, MA (2000) Parallel cone bipolar pathways to a ganglion cell use different rates and amplitudes of quantal excitation. Journal of Neuroscience 20: 3956-3963 [pdf file]

Demb JB, Haarsma L, Freed MA, and Sterling P (1999) Functional circuitry of the retinal ganglion cell's nonlinear receptive field. Journal of Neuroscience 19:9756-9767 [pdf file]