Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Small networks of retinal neurons, emergence of retinal function during development, retina as an optimal computational device, measurement of visual motion in the brain, perceptual learning, analysis of medical images.
Office: DRB 168
Phone: (213) 821-1150
Fax: (213) 821-2368
Email:
nmg@bmsr.usc.edu
Selected Publications
Grzywacz, N.M., and F.R. Amthor (2007) Robust Directional Computation in On-Off Directionally Selective Ganglion Cells of Rabbit Retina. Visual Neuroscience. In Press.
Lee, E-J., D.K. Merwine, M. Padilla, F.A. Tobolowsky, and N.M. Grzywacz (2007) Choline Acetyltransferase Immunoreactive Neurons in the Retina of Normal and Dark-reared Turtle. J. Comp. Neurol. 503, 768-778.
Lee, E-J., T.L. Gibo, and N.M. Grzywacz (2006) Dark-rearing-induced Reduction of GABA and GAD and Prevention of the Effect by BDNF in the Mouse Retina. European J. Neurosci. 24, 2118-2134.
Grzywacz, N.M., and C.L. Zucker (2006) Modeling Starburst Cells' GABAB Receptors and Their Putative Role in Motion Sensitivity. Biophys. J. 91, 473-486.
Rapela, J., J.M. Mendel, and N.M. Grzywacz (2006) Estimating Nonlinear Receptive Fields from Natural Images. J. Vis. 6, 441–474.
Liu, F., D.K. Merwine, and N.M. Grzywacz (2006) Statistically Robust Detection of Spontaneous, Non-Stereotypical Neural Signals. J. Neurosci. Methods 153, 299-311.,
Amthor, F.R., J.S. Tootle, and N.M. Grzywacz (2005) Stimulus-dependent Correlated Firing in Directionally Selective Retinal Ganglion Cells. Vis. Neurosci. 22, 769-787.
Zucker, C.L., J.E., Nilson, B. Ehinger, and N.M. Grzywacz (2005) Compartmental Localization of -Aminobutyric Acid Type B Receptors in the Cholinergic Circuitry of the Rabbit Retina. J. Comp. Neurol. 493, 448-459.
Wurfel, J., J.F. Barraza, and N.M. Grzywacz (2005) Measurement of Rate of Expansion in the Perception of Radial Motion. Vision Res. 45, 2740-2751.
Barraza, J.F., and N.M. Grzywacz (2005) Parametric Decomposition of Optic Flows by Humans. Vision Res. 45, 2481-2491.
