The Neuronal Codes of the Cerebellum

Associate Professor for UTHSC’s Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology, as well as a Visiting Scientist at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Heck's primary research foci are the neuronal foundations of motor/cognitive brain functions and their disorders and the role of coordinated dynamic brain activity in normal and pathological brain function. He serves as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, Review Editor for Frontiers in Neurogenomics, and Editorial Board member for Neuroscience. He was Organizer/Chair for the 2013 SFN symposium on Neuronal Codes and has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters on topics directly related to the proposed.

1. Signaling of predictive and feedback information in Purkinje cell simple spike activity   2. DCN rebound firing in vivo: Much ado about almost nothing?   3. Spatio-temporal aspects of cerebellar coding during learning

4. How the vestibulo-cerebellum builds an internal model of self-motion

5. Modeling the generation of cerebellar nuclear spike output

6. Cerebro-cerebellar loops in the rodent brain

7. Cerebellar neuronal codes – perspectives from intracellular analysis in vivo

8. The role of the cerebellum in optimizing saccades

9. Coordination of reaching movements: Cerebellar interactions with motor cortex

10. The role of synchrony and oscillatory neuronal activity in cerebellar control of behavior

11. Single neuron and network computation in realistic models of the cerebellar cortex