André Antonio Fenton
  • Professor of Neural Science, Center for Neural Science, New York University
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Personal information

Education

Ph.D in Neural and Behavioral Science, Department of Physiology, State University of New York, Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn, 1998

Publications

Since 2005
• Keeley, S., Fenton, A. A. and Rinzel, J. (2017). Modeling fast and slow gamma oscillations with interneurons of different subtype. J Neurophysiol 117(3): 950-965.
• Neymotin, S. A., Talbot, Z. N., Jung, J. Q., Fenton, A. A. and Lytton, W. W. (2017). Tracking recurrence of correlation structure in neuronal recordings. J Neurosci Methods 275: 1-9.
• Nishi, R., Castaneda, E., Davis, G. W., Fenton, A. A., Hofmann, H. A., King, J., Ryan, T. A. and Trujillo, K. A. (2016). The Global Challenge in Neuroscience Education and Training: The MBL Perspective. Neuron 92(3): 632-636.
• Lesburgueres, E., Sparks, F. T., O'Reilly, K. C. and Fenton, A. A. (2016). Active place avoidance is no more stressful than unreinforced exploration of a familiar environment. Hippocampus 26(12): 1481-1485.
• O'Reilly, K. C., Perica, M. I. and Fenton, A. A. (2016). Memory deficits with intact cognitive control in the methylazoxymethanol acetate (MAM) exposure model of neurodevelopmental insult. Neurobiol Learn Mem 134 Pt B: 294-303.
• Pavlowsky, A., Wallace, E., Fenton, A. A. and Alarcon, J. M. (2017). Persistent modifications of hippocampal synaptic function during remote spatial memory. Neurobiol Learn Mem 138: 182-197.
• Hsieh, C., Tsokas, P., Serrano, P., Hernandez, A. I., Tian, D., Cottrell, J. E., Shouval, H. Z., Fenton, A. A. and Sacktor, T. C. (2017). Persistent increased PKMzeta in long-term and remote spatial memory. Neurobiol Learn Mem 138: 135-144.
• Tsokas, P., Hsieh, C., Yao, Y., Lesburgueres, E., Wallace, E. J., Tcherepanov, A., Jothianandan, D., Hartley, B. R., Pan, L., Rivard, B., Farese, R. V., Sajan, M. P., Bergold, P. J., Hernandez, A. I., Cottrell, J. E., Shouval, H. Z., Fenton, A. A. and Sacktor, T. C. (2016). Compensation for PKMzeta in long-term potentiation and spatial long-term memory in mutant mice. Elife 5.
• Radwan, B., Dvorak, D. and Fenton, A. A. (2016). Impaired cognitive discrimination and discoordination of coupled theta-gamma oscillations in Fmr1 knockout mice. Neurobiol Dis 88: 125-138.
• Kelemen, E. and Fenton, A. A. (2016). Coordinating different representations in the hippocampus. Neurobiol Learn Mem 129: 50-59.
• Park, E. H., Burghardt, N. S., Dvorak, D., Hen, R. and Fenton, A. A. (2015). Experience-Dependent Regulation of Dentate Gyrus Excitability by Adult-Born Granule Cells. J Neurosci 35(33): 11656-11666.
• Fenton, A. A. (2015). Excitation-inhibition discoordination in rodent models of mental disorders. Biol Psychiatry 77(12): 1079-1088.
• Fenton, A. A. (2015). Coordinating with the "Inner GPS". Hippocampus 25(6): 763-769.
• O'Reilly, K. C., Kao, H. Y., Lee, H. and Fenton, A. A. (2014). Converging on a core cognitive deficit: the impact of various neurodevelopmental insults on cognitive control. Front Neurosci 8: 153.
• Grant, A. C., Abdel-Baki, S. G., Omurtag, A., Sinert, R., Chari, G., Malhotra, S., Weedon, J., Fenton, A. A. and Zehtabchi, S. (2014). Diagnostic accuracy of microEEG: a miniature, wireless EEG device. Epilepsy Behav 34: 81-85.
• Lee, H., Dvorak, D. and Fenton, A. A. (2014). Targeting Neural Synchrony Deficits is Sufficient to Improve Cognition in a Schizophrenia-Related Neurodevelopmental Model. Front Psychiatry 5: 15.
• Dvorak, D. and Fenton, A. A. (2014). On track with two gammas. Neuron 82(3): 506-508.
• Pearce, P. S., Friedman, D., Lafrancois, J. J., Iyengar, S. S., Fenton, A. A., Maclusky, N. J. and Scharfman, H. E. (2014). Spike-wave discharges in adult Sprague-Dawley rats and their implications for animal models of temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy Behav 32: 121-131.
• Zehtabchi, S., Abdel Baki, S. G., Omurtag, A., Sinert, R., Chari, G., Roodsari, G. S., Weedon, J., Fenton, A. A. and Grant, A. C. (2014). Effect of microEEG on clinical management and outcomes of emergency department patients with altered mental status: a randomized controlled trial. Acad Emerg Med 21(3): 283-291.
• Dvorak, D. and Fenton, A. A. (2014). Toward a proper estimation of phase-amplitude coupling in neural oscillations. J Neurosci Methods 225: 42-56.
• Kelemen, E. and Fenton, A. A. (2013). Key features of human episodic recollection in the cross-episode retrieval of rat hippocampus representations of space. PLoS Biol 11(7): e1001607.
• Kheirbek, M. A., Drew, L. J., Burghardt, N. S., Costantini, D. O., Tannenholz, L., Ahmari, S. E., Zeng, H., Fenton, A. A. and Hen, R. (2013). Differential control of learning and anxiety along the dorsoventral axis of the dentate gyrus. Neuron 77(5): 955-968.
• Perera, T. D., Thirumangalakudi, L., Glennon, E., Park, S., Insanally, M., Persky, M., Fonseka, J., Dwork, A. J., Sackeim, H. A., Coplan, J. D. and Fenton, A. A. (2013). Role of hippocampal neurogenesis in mnemonic segregation: implications for human mood disorders. World J Biol Psychiatry 14(8): 602-610.
• Zehtabchi, S., Abdel Baki, S. G., Omurtag, A., Sinert, R., Chari, G., Malhotra, S., Weedon, J., Fenton, A. A. and Grant, A. C. (2013). Prevalence of non-convulsive seizure and other electroencephalographic abnormalities in ED patients with altered mental status. Am J Emerg Med 31(11): 1578-1582.
• Omurtag, A. and Fenton, A. A. (2012). Assessing diagnostic tests: how to correct for the combined effects of interpretation and reference standard. PLoS One 7(12): e52221.
• Barry, J. M., Rivard, B., Fox, S. E., Fenton, A. A., Sacktor, T. C. and Muller, R. U. (2012). Inhibition of protein kinase Mzeta disrupts the stable spatial discharge of hippocampal place cells in a familiar environment. J Neurosci 32(40): 13753-13762.
• Omurtag, A., Baki, S. G., Chari, G., Cracco, R. Q., Zehtabchi, S., Fenton, A. A. and Grant, A. C. (2012). Technical and clinical analysis of microEEG: a miniature wireless EEG device designed to record high-quality EEG in the emergency department. Int J Emerg Med 5(1): 35.
• Lee, H., Dvorak, D., Kao, H. Y., Duffy, A. M., Scharfman, H. E. and Fenton, A. A. (2012). Early cognitive experience prevents adult deficits in a neurodevelopmental schizophrenia model. Neuron 75(4): 714-724.
• Kubie, J. L. and Fenton, A. A. (2012). Linear look-ahead in conjunctive cells: an entorhinal mechanism for vector-based navigation. Front Neural Circuits 6: 20.
• Burghardt, N. S., Park, E. H., Hen, R. and Fenton, A. A. (2012). Adult-born hippocampal neurons promote cognitive flexibility in mice. Hippocampus 22(9): 1795-1808.
• Sacktor, T. C. and Fenton, A. A. (2012). Appropriate application of ZIP for PKMzeta inhibition, LTP reversal, and memory erasure. Hippocampus 22(3): 645-647.
• Neymotin, S. A., Lytton, W. W., Olypher, A. V. and Fenton, A. A. (2011). Measuring the quality of neuronal identification in ensemble recordings. J Neurosci 31(45): 16398-16409.
• Popp, S. S., Lei, B., Kelemen, E., Fenton, A. A., Cottrell, J. E. and Kass, I. S. (2011). Intravenous antiarrhythmic doses of lidocaine increase the survival rate of CA1 neurons and improve cognitive outcome after transient global cerebral ischemia in rats. Neuroscience 192: 537-549.
• Hayman, R., Verriotis, M. A., Jovalekic, A., Fenton, A. A. and Jeffery, K. J. (2011). Anisotropic encoding of three-dimensional space by place cells and grid cells. Nat Neurosci 14(9): 1182-1188.
• Park, E., Dvorak, D. and Fenton, A. A. (2011). Ensemble place codes in hippocampus: CA1, CA3, and dentate gyrus place cells have multiple place fields in large environments. PLoS One 6(7): e22349.
• Abdel Baki, S. G., Omurtag, A., Fenton, A. A. and Zehtabchi, S. (2011). The new wave: time to bring EEG to the emergency department. Int J Emerg Med 4: 36.
• Moreno, H., Burghardt, N. S., Vela-Duarte, D., Masciotti, J., Hua, F., Fenton, A. A., Schwaller, B. and Small, S. A. (2012). The absence of the calcium-buffering protein calbindin is associated with faster age-related decline in hippocampal metabolism. Hippocampus 22(5): 1107-1120.
• Neymotin, S. A., Lee, H., Park, E., Fenton, A. A. and Lytton, W. W. (2011). Emergence of physiological oscillation frequencies in a computer model of neocortex. Front Comput Neurosci 5: 19.
• Sahay, A., Scobie, K. N., Hill, A. S., O'Carroll, C. M., Kheirbek, M. A., Burghardt, N. S., Fenton, A. A., Dranovsky, A. and Hen, R. (2011). Increasing adult hippocampal neurogenesis is sufficient to improve pattern separation. Nature 472(7344): 466-470.
• Jezek, K., Lee, B. B., Kelemen, E., McCarthy, K. M., McEwen, B. S. and Fenton, A. A. (2010). Stress-induced out-of-context activation of memory. PLoS Biol 8(12): e1000570.
• Zhong, J., Chuang, S. C., Bianchi, R., Zhao, W., Paul, G., Thakkar, P., Liu, D., Fenton, A. A., Wong, R. K. and Tiedge, H. (2010). Regulatory BC1 RNA and the fragile X mental retardation protein: convergent functionality in brain. PLoS One 5(11): e15509.
• Neymotin, S. A., Lee, H., Fenton, A. A. and Lytton, W. W. (2010). Interictal EEG discoordination in a rat seizure model. J Clin Neurophysiol 27(6): 438-444.
• Abdel Baki, S. G., Schwab, B., Haber, M., Fenton, A. A. and Bergold, P. J. (2010). Minocycline synergizes with N-acetylcysteine and improves cognition and memory following traumatic brain injury in rats. PLoS One 5(8): e12490.
• Kelemen, E. and Fenton, A. A. (2010). Dynamic grouping of hippocampal neural activity during cognitive control of two spatial frames. PLoS Biol 8(6): e1000403.
• Neymotin, S. A., Jacobs, K. M., Fenton, A. A. and Lytton, W. W. (2011). Synaptic information transfer in computer models of neocortical columns. J Comput Neurosci 30(1): 69-84.
• Fenton, A. A., Lytton, W. W., Barry, J. M., Lenck-Santini, P. P., Zinyuk, L. E., Kubik, S., Bures, J., Poucet, B., Muller, R. U. and Olypher, A. V. (2010). Attention-like modulation of hippocampus place cell discharge. J Neurosci 30(13): 4613-4625.
• Shen, H., Sabaliauskas, N., Sherpa, A., Fenton, A. A., Stelzer, A., Aoki, C. and Smith, S. S. (2010). A critical role for alpha4betadelta GABAA receptors in shaping learning deficits at puberty in mice. Science 327(5972): 1515-1518.
• Zhong, J., Chuang, S. C., Bianchi, R., Zhao, W., Lee, H., Fenton, A. A., Wong, R. K. and Tiedge, H. (2009). BC1 regulation of metabotropic glutamate receptor-mediated neuronal excitability. J Neurosci 29(32): 9977-9986.
• Abdel Baki, S. G., Kao, H. Y., Kelemen, E., Fenton, A. A. and Bergold, P. J. (2009). A hierarchy of neurobehavioral tasks discriminates between mild and moderate brain injury in rats. Brain Res 1280: 98-106.
• Bergold, P. J., Pinkhasova, V., Syed, M., Kao, H. Y., Jozwicka, A., Zhao, N., Coplan, J. D., Dow-Edwards, D. and Fenton, A. A. (2009). Production of panic-like symptoms by lactate is associated with increased neural firing and oxidation of brain redox in the rat hippocampus. Neurosci Lett 453(3): 219-224.
• Kubie, J. L. and Fenton, A. A. (2009). Heading-vector navigation based on head-direction cells and path integration. Hippocampus 19(5): 456-479.
• Johnson, A., Fenton, A. A., Kentros, C. and Redish, A. D. (2009). Looking for cognition in the structure within the noise. Trends Cogn Sci 13(2): 55-64.
• Manrique, T., Moron, I., Ballesteros, M. A., Guerrero, R. M., Fenton, A. A. and Gallo, M. (2009). Hippocampus, aging, and segregating memories. Hippocampus 19(1): 57-65.
• Serrano, P., Friedman, E. L., Kenney, J., Taubenfeld, S. M., Zimmerman, J. M., Hanna, J., Alberini, C., Kelley, A. E., Maren, S., Rudy, J. W., Yin, J. C., Sacktor, T. C. and Fenton, A. A. (2008). PKMzeta maintains spatial, instrumental, and classically conditioned long-term memories. PLoS Biol 6(12): 2698-2706.
• Fenton, A. A., Kao, H. Y., Neymotin, S. A., Olypher, A., Vayntrub, Y., Lytton, W. W. and Ludvig, N. (2008). Unmasking the CA1 ensemble place code by exposures to small and large environments: more place cells and multiple, irregularly arranged, and expanded place fields in the larger space. J Neurosci 28(44): 11250-11262.
• Lenck-Santini, P. P., Fenton, A. A. and Muller, R. U. (2008). Discharge properties of hippocampal neurons during performance of a jump avoidance task. J Neurosci 28(27): 6773-6786.
• Kubie, J. L., Fenton, A., Novikov, N., Touretzky, D. and Muller, R. U. (2007). Changes in goal selection induced by cue conflicts are in register with predictions from changes in place cell field locations. Behav Neurosci 121(4): 751-763.
• Vafaei, A. A., Jezek, K., Bures, J., Fenton, A. A. and Rashidy-Pour, A. (2007). Post-training reversible inactivation of the rat's basolateral amygdala interferes with hippocampus-dependent place avoidance memory in a time-dependent manner. Neurobiol Learn Mem 88(1): 87-93.
• Fenton, A. A. (2007). Neuroscience. Where am I? Science 315(5814): 947-949.
• Pastalkova, E., Serrano, P., Pinkhasova, D., Wallace, E., Fenton, A. A. and Sacktor, T. C. (2006). Storage of spatial information by the maintenance mechanism of LTP. Science 313(5790): 1141-1144.
• Olypher, A. V., Klement, D. and Fenton, A. A. (2006). Cognitive disorganization in hippocampus: a physiological model of the disorganization in psychosis. J Neurosci 26(1): 158-168.
• Kubik, S., Stuchlik, A. and Fenton, A. A. (2006). Evidence for hippocampal role in place avoidance other than merely memory storage. Physiol Res 55(4): 445-452.
• Kubik, S. and Fenton, A. A. (2005). Behavioral evidence that segregation and representation are dissociable hippocampal functions. J Neurosci 25(40): 9205-9212.
• Wesierska, M., Dockery, C. and Fenton, A. A. (2005). Beyond memory, navigation, and inhibition: behavioral evidence for hippocampus-dependent cognitive coordination in the rat. J Neurosci 25(9): 2413-2419.
• Kelemen, E., Moron, I. and Fenton, A. A. (2005). Is the hippocampal theta rhythm related to cognition in a non-locomotor place recognition task? Hippocampus 15(4): 472-479.
• Klement, D., Past'alkova, E. and Fenton, A. A. (2005). Tetrodotoxin infusions into the dorsal hippocampus block non-locomotor place recognition. Hippocampus 15(4): 460-471.
• Touretzky, D. S., Weisman, W. E., Fuhs, M. C., Skaggs, W. E., Fenton, A. A. and Muller, R. U. (2005). Deforming the hippocampal map. Hippocampus 15(1): 41-55.
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