Michael A. Freed, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Department: Neuroscience
Contact information
123 Anatomy Chemistry Bldg.
Department of Neuroscience
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6058
Department of Neuroscience
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6058
Education:
B.A. (Psychology)
Yale University, 1976.
Ph.D. (Anatomy)
University of Pennsylvania, 1985.
Permanent linkB.A. (Psychology)
Yale University, 1976.
Ph.D. (Anatomy)
University of Pennsylvania, 1985.
Selected Publications
Freed, MA, Liang, Z: Reliability and frequency response of excitatory signals transmitted to different types of retinal ganglion cell. Journal of Neurophysiology 103: 1508-17, 2010.Liang, J Freed, MA: The On pathway rectifies the Off pathway of the mammalian retina. Journal of Neuroscience 30: 5533 - 5543, 2010.
Tokutake, Y., Freed, M. A.: Retinal ganglion cells - spatial organization of the receptive field reduces temporal redundancy. European Journal of Neuroscience 28: 914-923, 2008.
Xu, Y., Vasudeva, V., Vardi, N., Sterling, P., Freed, M. A.: Different types of ganglion cell share a synaptic pattern. Journal of Comparative Neurology 507(6): 1871-8, 2008.
Sterling, P., Freed, M.: How robust is a neural circuit? Visual Neuroscience 24(4): 563-71, 2007.
Freed, M. A.: Quantal encoding of information in a retinal ganglion cell. Journal of Neurophysiology 94(2): 1048-56, 2005.
Koch, K., McLean, J., Berry, M., Sterling, P., Balasubramanian, V., Freed, M. A.: Efficiency of information transmission by retinal ganglion cells. Current Biology 14(17): 1523-30, 2004.
Freed, M.A., Smith, R.G., Sterling, P.: Timing of quantal release from the retinal bipolar terminal is regulated by a feedback circuit. Neuron 38: 1-20, 2003.