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Publications

Mei S., Lavian H., Wu YK., Stemmler MB., Portugues R. and Herz AVM. A multi-ring shifter network computes head direction in zebrafish. BioRxiv (Preprint, 2025).

Lavian H., Prat O., Petrucco L., Štih V. and Portugues R. (2025) Visual motion and landmark position align with heading direction in the zebrafish interpeduncular nucleus. Nat Commun 16, 9924.

Petrucco L.*, Lavian H.*, Wu YK., Svara F., Štih V. and Portugues R. (2023) Neural dynamics and architecture of the heading direction circuit in zebrafish. Nat Neuro 26:765-773. * co-first author.

 

Lavian H. and Korngreen A. (2019) Short term depression shapes information transmission in a constitutively active GABAergic synapse. Sci Rep 9:18092.

Faynveitz A., Lavian H., Jacob A. and Korngreen A. (2019) Proliferation of inhibitory input to the substantia nigra in experimental parkinsonism. Front Cell Neurosci 13:417.

Gorodetski L., Zeira R., Lavian H., and Korngreen A. (2018) Long term plasticity of glutamatergic input from the subthalamic nucleus to the entopeduncular nucleus. Eur J Neurosci, 48(5):2139-2151. 

Grobman M., Dalal T., Lavian H., Shmuel R., Belelovsky K., Xu F., Korngreen A. and Haddad R. (2018) ­A mirror-symmetric excitatory link coordinates odor maps across olfactory bulbs and enables odor perceptual unity. Neuron, 99(4):800-813.

Lavian H., Loewenstern Y., Madar R., Almog M., Bar-Gad I., Okun E. and Korngreen A. (2018) Dopamine receptors in the rat entopeduncular nucleus. Brain Struct Funct, 223:2673-2684. 

Lavian H., Almog M., Madar R., Loewenstern Y., Bar-Gad I., Okun E. and Korngreen A. (2017) Dopaminergic modulation of synaptic integration and firing patterns in the rat entopeduncular nucleus. J Neurosci, 37(30):7177-7187.

Lavian H. and Korngreen A. (2016) Inhibitory short-term plasticity modulates neuronal activity in the rat entopeduncular nucleus in vitro. Eur J Neurosci, 43: 870-884.

Lavian H., Ben-Porat H., and Korngreen A. (2013) High and low frequency stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus induce prolonged changes in subthalamic and globus pallidus neurons. Front Syst Neurosci 7: 73.

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