Publicaties

Mariska van Lier, M Hadi Saiepour, Koen Kole, Juliette Cheyne, Nawal Zabouri, Thomas Blok, Yi Qin, Emma Ruimschotel, J Alexander Heimel, Christian Lohmann, Christiaan N Levelt Disruption of critical period plasticity in a mouse model of Neurofibromatosis type 1 The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 40 (2020) 5495-5509 Download

Joris Vangeneugden, Enny H van Beest, Michael X Cohen, Jeannette A M Lorteije, Sreedeep Mukherjee, Lisa Kirchberger, Jorrit S Montijn, Premnath Thamizharasu, Daniela Camillo, Christiaan N Levelt, Pieter R Roelfsema, Matthew W Self, J Alexander Heimel Activity in Lateral Visual Areas Contributes to Surround Suppression in Awake Mouse V1 Current Biology 29 (2019) 4268-4275.e7 Download

Mariska van Lier, Laura Smit-Rigter, Roos Krimpenfort, M Hadi Saiepour, Emma Ruimschotel, Willem Kamphuis, J Alexander Heimel, Christiaan N Levelt NMNAT Proteins that Limit Wallerian Degeneration Also Regulate Critical Period Plasticity in the Visual Cortex eNeuro 6 (2019) Download

Koen Seignette, Christiaan N Levelt Amblyopia Current Biology 28 (2018) R709-R712 Download

Daniela Camillo, Mehran Ahmadlou, M Hadi Saiepour, Maryam Yasaminshirazi, Christiaan N Levelt, J Alexander Heimel Visual Processing by Calretinin Expressing Inhibitory Neurons in Mouse Primary Visual Cortex Scientific Reports 8 (2018) Download

M Hadi Saiepour, Rogier Min, Willem Kamphuis, J Alexander Heimel, Christiaan N Levelt β-Catenin in the Adult Visual Cortex Regulates NMDA-Receptor Function and Visual Responses Cerebral Cortex 28 (2018) 1183-1194 Download

J.P. Sommeijer, M Ahmadlou, M.H. Saiepour, K. Seignette, R Min, J.A. Heimel, C.N. Levelt Thalamic inhibition regulates critical-period plasticity in visual cortex and thalamus. Nature Neuroscience 20 (2017) 1715-1721 Download

Daniëlle van Versendaal, Christiaan N Levelt Inhibitory interneurons in visual cortical plasticity Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 73 (2016) 3677-3691 Download

L.A. Smit-Rigter, Rajeev Rajendran, Catia A.P. Silva, Liselot Spierenburg, Femke Groeneweg, E. Ruimschotel, D. Van Versendaal, C. van der Togt, Ulf T. Eysel, J.A. Heimel, C. Lohmann, C.N. Levelt Mitochondrial dynamics in visual cortex are limited in vivo and not affected by axonal structural plasticity. Current Biology 26 (2016) 2609-2616 Download

Esther Remmelink, Maarten Loos, Bastijn Koopmans, Emmeke Aarts, Sophie van der Sluis, August B Smit, Matthijs Verhage, , C.N. Levelt, C.I. De Zeeuw A 1-night operant learning task without food-restriction differentiates among mouse strains in an automated home-cage environment Behavioural Brain Research 283 (2015) 53-60 Download

M Hadi Saiepour, Sridhara Chakravarthy, Rogier Min, Christiaan N Levelt Competition and Homeostasis of Excitatory and Inhibitory Connectivity in the Adult Mouse Visual Cortex Cerebral Cortex 25 (2015) 3713-22 Download

A Omrani, T van der Vaart, E Mientjes, G M van Woerden, M R Hojjati, K W Li, D H Gutmann, C N Levelt, A B Smit, A J Silva, S A Kushner, Y Elgersma HCN channels are a novel therapeutic target for cognitive dysfunction in Neurofibromatosis type 1 Molecular Psychiatry 20 (2015) 1311-21 Download

M Hadi Saiepour, Rajeev Rajendran, Azar Omrani, Wen-Pei Ma, Huizhong W Tao, J Alexander Heimel, Christiaan N Levelt Ocular dominance plasticity disrupts binocular inhibition-excitation matching in visual cortex Current Biology 25 (2015) 713-21 Download

Maarten Loos, Bastijn Koopmans, Emmeke Aarts, Gregoire Maroteaux, Sophie van der Sluis, Matthijs Verhage, August B Smit, , C.I. De Zeeuw, C.N. Levelt Within-strain variation in behavior differs consistently between common inbred strains of mice Mammalian Genome 26 (2015) 348-54 Download

Daniela Camillo, Christiaan N Levelt, J Alexander Heimel Lack of functional specialization of neurons in the mouse primary visual cortex that have expressed calretinin Frontiers in Neuroanatomy 8 (2014) 89 Download

Matthew W Self, Jeannette A M Lorteije, Joris Vangeneugden, Enny H van Beest, Mihaela E Grigore, Christiaan N Levelt, J.A. Heimel, Pieter R Roelfsema Orientation-tuned surround suppression in mouse visual cortex Journal of Neuroscience 34 (2014) 9290-304 Download

C.H. Alves, A.S. Sanz, B. Park, L.P. Pellissier, N. Tanimoto, S.C. Beck, G. Huber, M. Murtaza, F. Richard, I.S. Gurubaran, M.G. Garrido, C.N. Levelt, P. Rashbass, A. Le Bivic, M.W. Seeliger, J. Wijnholds Loss of CRB2 in the mouse retina mimics human retinitis pigmentosa due to mutations in the CRB1 gene. Human Molecular Genetics 22 (2013) 35-50 Download

M.L. Rietman, J.P. Sommeijer, C.I. De Zeeuw, C.N. Levelt, J.A. Heimel Candidate genes in ocular dominance plasticity Frontiers in Neuroscience 6 (2012) 11 Download

C.N. Levelt, M. Hubener Critical-period plasticity in the visual cortex. Annual Review of Neuroscience 35 (2012) 309-330 Download

D. Van Versendaal, R. Rajendran, M.H. Saiepour, J. Klooster, L.A. Smit-Rigter, J.P. Sommeijer, C.I. De Zeeuw, S.B. Hofer, J.A. Heimel, C.N. Levelt Elimination of inhibitory synapses is a major component of adult ocular dominance plasticity. Neuron 74 (2012) 374-383 Download