Description of Research Expertise
Neuroscience, Neurophysiology, Computational Neuroscience, Systems Neuroscience
Selected Publications
J Cichon, AZ Wasilczuk, LL Looger, D Contreras, MB Kelz, A Proekt: Ketamine triggers a switch in excitatory neuronal activity across neocortex Nature Neuroscience 26 : 39-52,2023.
Brennan C, Aggarwal A, Pei R, Sussillo D, Proekt A: One dimensional approximations of neuronal dynamics reveal computational strategy PLoS Computational Biology 19 (1): 2023.
Adeeti Aggarwal, Connor Brennan, Jennifer Luo, Helen Chung, Diego Contreras, Max B Kelz, Alex Proekt: Visual evoked feedforward–feedback traveling waves organize neural activity across the cortical hierarchy in mice Nature Communications 13 (1): 1-6,2022.
Ethan B Blackwood, Brenna P Shortal, Alex Proekt: Weak Coupling Between Spontaneous Local Cortical Activity State Switches Under Anesthesia Leads to Strongly Correlated Global Cortical States Journal of Neuroscience : 2022.
Richard Lennertz, Kane O Pryor, Aeyal Raz, Maggie Parker, Vincent Bonhomme, Peter Schuller, Gerhard Schneider, Matt Moore, Mark Coburn, James C Root, Jacqueline M Emerson, Alexandra L Hohmann, Haya Azaria, Neta Golomb, Aline Defresne, Javier Montupil, Stefanie Pilge, David P Obert, Hanna van Waart, Marta Seretny, Rolf Rossaint, Ana Kowark, Alexander Blair, Bryan Krause, Alex Proekt, Max Kelz, Jamie Sleigh, Amy Gaskell, Robert D Sanders: Connected consciousness after tracheal intubation in young adults: an international multicentre cohort study British Journal of Anesthesia : 2022.
A Proekt, MB Kelz: Explaining anaesthetic hysteresis with effect-site equilibration
British Journal of Anaesthesia 126 (1): 265-278,2021.
Sarah L.Reitz, Andrzej Z.Wasilczuk, Gretel H.Beh, Alex Proekt, Max B.Kelz: Activation of Preoptic Tachykinin 1 Neurons Promotes Wakefulness over Sleep and Volatile Anesthetic-Induced Unconsciousness Current Biology
31 (2): 2021.
AR McKinstry-Wu, A Proekt, MB Kelz: Neural inertia: a sticky situation for anesthesia Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology 32 (3): 2020.
Andrzej Z Wasilczuk, Benjamin A Harrison, Paula Kwasniewska, Bo Ku, Max B Kelz, Andrew R McKinstry-Wu, Alex Proekt: Resistance to state transitions in responsiveness is differentially modulated by different volatile anaesthetics in male mice British Journal of Anaesthesia 125 (3): 2020.
Connor Brennan, Alex Proekt: LOOPER: Inferring computational algorithms enacted by neuronal population dynamics arxiv ( arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.09976, 2020) : 2020.
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Academic Contact Information
Anesthesiology and Critical Care
University of Pennsylvania
331 John Morgan Building
Philadelphia,
PA
19104