Faculty

Alexander Proekt, M.D. Ph.D.

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Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Department: Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Graduate Group Affiliations

Contact information
Anesthesiology and Critical Care
University of Pennsylvania
331 John Morgan Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Lab: 215 746 2370
Education:
B.S. (Biological Sciences)
Carnegie Mellon University, 1998.
M.D. Ph.D. (Neuroscience/Medicine)
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 2006.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

General Anesthesia, Anesthesia for Neurosurgery, Neuromonitoring during Anesthesia

Description of Research Expertise

Neuroscience, Neurophysiology, Computational Neuroscience, Systems Neuroscience

Selected Publications

Andrzej Z Wasilczuk, Cole Rinehart, Adeeti Aggarwal, Martha E Stone George A Mashour, Michael S Avidan, Max B Kelz1, Alex Proekt: Hormonal Basis of Sex Differences in Anesthetic Sensitivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2024.

C Brennan, A Proekt: Attractor dynamics with activity-dependent plasticity capture human working memory across time scales. Nature Communications Psychology 1(1), 2023.

Brennan C, Aggarwal A, Pei R, Sussillo D, Proekt A: One dimensional approximations of neuronal dynamics reveal computational strategy. PLoS Computational Biology 19(1), 2023.

J Cichon, AZ Wasilczuk, LL Looger, D Contreras, MB Kelz, A Proekt: Ketamine triggers a switch in excitatory neuronal activity across neocortex. Nature Neuroscience 26: 39-52, 2023.

Adeeti Aggarwal, Jennifer Luo, Helen Chung, Diego Contreras, Max B Kelz, Alex Proekt: Neural assemblies coordinated by cortical waves are associated with waking and hallucinatory brain states. bioarxiv 2023 Notes: currently in revision at Cell Reports.

Richard Lennertz, Kane O. Pryor, Aeyal Raz, Maggie Parker, Vincent Bonhomme, Peter Schuller, Gerhard Schneider, Matt Moore, Mark Coburn, James C. Root, Jacqueline M. Emerson, Alexandra L. Hohmann, Haya Azaria, Neta Golomb, Aline Defresne, Javier Montupil, Stefanie Pilge, David P. Obert, Hanna van Waart, Marta Seretny, Rolf Rossaint, Ana Kowark, Alexander Blair, Bryan Krause, Alex Proekt, Max Kelz, Jamie Sleigh, Amy Gaskell, Robert D. Sanders: Connected consciousness after tracheal intubation in young adults: an international multicentre cohort study. British Journal of Anesthesia 130(2), 2023.

Adeeti Aggarwal, Connor Brennan, Jennifer Luo, Helen Chung, Diego Contreras, Max B Kelz, Alex Proekt: Visual evoked feedforward–feedback traveling waves organize neural activity across the cortical hierarchy in mice. Nature Communications 13(1): 1-6, 2022.

Ethan B Blackwood, Brenna P Shortal, Alex Proekt: Weak Coupling Between Spontaneous Local Cortical Activity State Switches Under Anesthesia Leads to Strongly Correlated Global Cortical States. Journal of Neuroscience 2022.

Richard Lennertz, Kane O Pryor, Aeyal Raz, Maggie Parker, Vincent Bonhomme, Peter Schuller, Gerhard Schneider, Matt Moore, Mark Coburn, James C Root, Jacqueline M Emerson, Alexandra L Hohmann, Haya Azaria, Neta Golomb, Aline Defresne, Javier Montupil, Stefanie Pilge, David P Obert, Hanna van Waart, Marta Seretny, Rolf Rossaint, Ana Kowark, Alexander Blair, Bryan Krause, Alex Proekt, Max Kelz, Jamie Sleigh, Amy Gaskell, Robert D Sanders: Connected consciousness after tracheal intubation in young adults: an international multicentre cohort study. British Journal of Anesthesia 2022.

A Proekt, MB Kelz: Explaining anaesthetic hysteresis with effect-site equilibration British Journal of Anaesthesia 126(1): 265-278, 2021.

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Last updated: 02/26/2024
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