Mayank R. Mehta, Ph.D.

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Titles

Professor, Physics and Astronomy

Neurology

Neurobiology

Member, Biochemistry, Biophysics & Structural Biology GPB Home Area

Brain Research Institute

Molecular, Cellular & Integrative Physiology GPB Home Area

Neuroscience GPB Home Area

Contact Information

Email
MayankMehta@ucla.edu
Phone
Fax Number: 310-206-2096
Work Phone Number: 310 267 4653
Address

Mailing Address:

Department of Physics & Astronomy
Box 951547
Los Angeles, CA 90095
UNITED STATES

Website
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~mayank

Publications

Acharya Lavanya, Aghajan Zahra M, Vuong Cliff, Moore Jason J, Mehta Mayank R   Causal Influence of Visual Cues on Hippocampal Directional Selectivity Cell, 2016; 164(1-2): 197-207.
Mehta Mayank R   From synaptic plasticity to spatial maps and sequence learning Hippocampus, 2015; 25(6): 756-62.
Aghajan Zahra M, Acharya Lavanya, Moore Jason J, Cushman Jesse D, Vuong Cliff, Mehta Mayank R   Impaired spatial selectivity and intact phase precession in two-dimensional virtual reality Nature neuroscience, 2015; 18(1): 121-8.
Ravassard Pascal, Kees Ashley, Willers Bernard, Ho David, Aharoni Daniel, Cushman Jesse, Aghajan Zahra M, Mehta Mayank R   Multisensory control of hippocampal spatiotemporal selectivity Science (New York, N.Y.), 2013; 340(6138): 1342-6.
Cushman Jesse D, Aharoni Daniel B, Willers Bernard, Ravassard Pascal, Kees Ashley, Vuong Cliff, Popeney Briana, Arisaka Katsushi, Mehta Mayank R   Multisensory control of multimodal behavior: do the legs know what the tongue is doing? PloS one, 2013; 8(11): e80465.
Ghorbani Maryam, Mehta Mayank, Bruinsma Robijn, Levine Alex J   Nonlinear-dynamics theory of up-down transitions in neocortical neural networks Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 2012; 85(2 Pt 1): 021908.
Ahmed Omar J, Mehta Mayank R   Running speed alters the frequency of hippocampal gamma oscillations The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2012; 32(21): 7373-83.
Hahn Thomas T G, McFarland James M, Berberich Sven, Sakmann Bert, Mehta Mayank R   Spontaneous persistent activity in entorhinal cortex modulates cortico-hippocampal interaction in vivo Nature neuroscience, 2012; 15(11): 1531-8.
Resnik Evgeny, McFarland James M, Sprengel Rolf, Sakmann Bert, Mehta Mayank R   The effects of GluA1 deletion on the hippocampal population code for position The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2012; 32(26): 8952-68.
Mehta Mayank R   Contribution of Ih to LTP, place cells, and grid cells Cell, 2011; 147(5): 968-70.
McFarland James M, Hahn Thomas T G, Mehta Mayank R   Explicit-duration hidden Markov model inference of UP-DOWN states from continuous signals PloS one, 2011; 6(6): e21606.
Kumar Arvind, Mehta Mayank R   Frequency-Dependent Changes in NMDAR-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 2011; 5(5): 38.
Chen Zhiping, Resnik Evgeny, McFarland James M, Sakmann Bert, Mehta Mayank R   Speed controls the amplitude and timing of the hippocampal gamma rhythm PloS one, 2011; 6(6): e21408.
Ahmed Omar J, Mehta Mayank R   The hippocampal rate code: anatomy, physiology and theory Trends in neurosciences, 2009; 32(6): 329-38.
Mehta Mayank R   Cortico-hippocampal interaction during up-down states and memory consolidation Nature neuroscience, 2007; 10(1): 13-5.
Hahn Thomas T G, Sakmann Bert, Mehta Mayank R   Differential responses of hippocampal subfields to cortical up-down states Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007; 104(12): 5169-74.
Hoffman Kari L, Battaglia Francesco P, Harris Kenneth, MacLean Jason N, Marshall Lisa, Mehta Mayank R   The upshot of up states in the neocortex: from slow oscillations to memory formation The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2007; 27(44): 11838-41.
Hahn Thomas T G, Sakmann Bert, Mehta Mayank R   Phase-locking of hippocampal interneurons' membrane potential to neocortical up-down states Nature neuroscience, 2006; 9(11): 1359-61.
Mehta Mayank R   Role of rhythms in facilitating short-term memory Neuron, 2005; 45(1): 7-9.
Mehta Mayank R   Cooperative LTP can map memory sequences on dendritic branches Trends in neurosciences, 2004; 27(2): 69-72.
Petersen Carl C H, Hahn Thomas T G, Mehta Mayank, Grinvald Amiram, Sakmann Bert   Interaction of sensory responses with spontaneous depolarization in layer 2/3 barrel cortex Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2003; 100(23): 13638-43.