experience-dependent plasticity, synaptic plasticity, homeostatic plasticity, neural coding, visual disability, rehabilitation, neural prosthetics, sustainable design, low-resource healthcare
Preprints
Correction of amblyopia in cats and mice after the critical period.
Ming-fai Fong, Kevin R. Duffy, Madison P. Leet, Christian T. Candler, and Mark F. Bear.
BioRxiv 2021.05.03.442423.
2020
Divergent synaptic scaling of miniature excitatory synaptic currents following activity blockade in dissociated neuronal cultures.
Amanda L. Hanes, Andrew G. Koesters, Ming-fai Fong, Haider F. Altimimi, David Stellwagen, Peter Wenner, and Kathrin L. Engisch.
Journal of Neuroscience 40 (21) 4090-4102.
Distinct laminar requirements for NMDA receptors in experience-dependent visual cortical plasticity.
Ming-fai Fong, Peter S.B. Finnie, Taekeun Kim, Aurore Thomazeau, Eitan S. Kaplan, Samuel F. Cooke, and Mark F. Bear.
Cerebral Cortex 30(4) 2555-2572.
2018
Recovery from the anatomical effects of long-term monocular deprivation in cat lateral geniculate nucleus.
Kevin R. Duffy, Ming-fai Fong, Donald E. Mitchell, and Mark F. Bear.
Journal of Comparative Neurology. 526: 310-323.
2016
Rapid recovery from the effects of early monocular deprivation is enabled by temporary inactivation of the retinas in mice and kittens.
Ming-fai Fong, Donald E. Mitchell, Kevin R. Duffy, and Mark F. Bear.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (49): 14139-14144.
2015
Optogenetic feedback control of neural activity.
Jonathan P. Newman, Ming-fai Fong, Daniel C. Millard, Clarissa J. Whitmire, Garrett B. Stanley, and Steve M. Potter.
eLife, 4: e07192.
Upward synaptic scaling is dependent on neurotransmission rather than spiking.
Ming-fai Fong, Jonathan P. Newman, Steve M. Potter and Peter Wenner.
Nature Communications, 6: 6339.
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