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Profile Information

Affiliation: Team Leader (Team Leader), Laboratory for Distributed Cognitive Processing, RIKEN Center for Brain Science

Researcher number: 10871329
J-GLOBAL ID: 202101019328516124
researchmap Member ID: R000029023

Research Interests

Systems Neuroscience, Thalamocortical Interactions, Sensory Inference, Short-term Memory, Working Memory, Neuronal Network Dynamics, Deep Learning, Schizophrenia, Autism

Research Areas

Life sciences / Neuroanatomy and physiology / Systems Neuroscience, Thalamocortical Interactions, Neural Encoding, Multi-sensory Integration
Life sciences / Cognitive neuroscience / Decision-making, Inference, Short-term Memory, Working Memory, Attention

Research History

Jan, 2020 - Present

Team Leader, Center for Brain Science, RIKEN
Jan, 2018 - Nov, 2019

Research Scientist, Brain and Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Apr, 2014 - Dec, 2017

Postdoctoral Researcher, Neuroscience, New York University

Education

Sep, 2007 - Mar, 2014

PhD, Neuroscience, Tufts University School of Biomedical Sciences
Sep, 2003 - Jun, 2007

BSc, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Papers

Understanding the circuit basis of cognitive functions using mouse models.

Miho Nakajima, L Ian Schmitt

Neuroscience research, 152 44-58, Mar, 2020
Combinatorial Targeting of Distributed Forebrain Networks Reverses Noise Hypersensitivity in a Model of Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Miho Nakajima, L Ian Schmitt, Guoping Feng, Michael M Halassa

Neuron, 104(3) 488-500, Nov 6, 2019
Prefrontal Cortex Regulates Sensory Filtering through a Basal Ganglia-to-Thalamus Pathway.

Miho Nakajima, L Ian Schmitt, Michael M Halassa

Neuron, 103(3) 445-458, Aug 7, 2019
Thalamic amplification of cortical connectivity sustains attentional control.

L Ian Schmitt, Ralf D Wimmer, Miho Nakajima, Michael Happ, Sima Mofakham, Michael M Halassa

Nature, 545(7653) 219-223, May 11, 2017
Interrogating the mouse thalamus to correct human neurodevelopmental disorders.

L I Schmitt, M M Halassa

Molecular psychiatry, 22(2) 183-191, Feb, 2017
Scalable, Lightweight, Integrated and Quick-to-Assemble (SLIQ) Hyperdrives for Functional Circuit Dissection.

Li Liang, Stefan N Oline, Justin C Kirk, Lukas Ian Schmitt, Robert W Komorowski, Miguel Remondes, Michael M Halassa

Frontiers in neural circuits, 11 8-8, 2017
Thalamic reticular impairment underlies attention deficit in Ptchd1(Y/-) mice.

Michael F Wells, Ralf D Wimmer, L Ian Schmitt, Guoping Feng, Michael M Halassa

Nature, 532(7597) 58-63, Apr 7, 2016
Thalamic control of sensory selection in divided attention.

Ralf D Wimmer, L Ian Schmitt, Thomas J Davidson, Miho Nakajima, Karl Deisseroth, Michael M Halassa

Nature, 526(7575) 705-9, Oct 29, 2015
Thalamic reticular nucleus induces fast and local modulation of arousal state.

Laura D Lewis, Jakob Voigts, Francisco J Flores, L Ian Schmitt, Matthew A Wilson, Michael M Halassa, Emery N Brown

eLife, 4 e08760, Oct 13, 2015
Bioengineered functional brain-like cortical tissue.

Min D Tang-Schomer, James D White, Lee W Tien, L Ian Schmitt, Thomas M Valentin, Daniel J Graziano, Amy M Hopkins, Fiorenzo G Omenetto, Philip G Haydon, David L Kaplan

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(38) 13811-6, Sep 23, 2014
Chronic sleep restriction disrupts sleep homeostasis and behavioral sensitivity to alcohol by reducing the extracellular accumulation of adenosine.

Jerome Clasadonte, Sally R McIver, Luke I Schmitt, Michael M Halassa, Philip G Haydon

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 34(5) 1879-91, Jan 29, 2014
Antidepressant effects of sleep deprivation require astrocyte-dependent adenosine mediated signaling.

D J Hines, L I Schmitt, R M Hines, S J Moss, P G Haydon

Translational psychiatry, 3 e212, Jan 15, 2013
Wakefulness affects synaptic and network activity by increasing extracellular astrocyte-derived adenosine.

L Ian Schmitt, Robert E Sims, Nicholas Dale, Philip G Haydon

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 32(13) 4417-25, Mar 28, 2012