All Stories

  1. The 3-Body Problem: How Astrocytes May Govern Plasticity

    Article • The Neuroscientist, May 2026, SAGE Publications

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  2. Layer-5 Pyramidal Cell tLTD Requires Astrocytic Ca 2+ and CB1 Receptor Signaling

    Article • April 2026, openRxiv

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  3. Distinct NMDA Receptor Pools Determine Diverse Forms of Cortical Plasticity

    Article • February 2026, openRxiv

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  4. Correction: Unified pre- and postsynaptic long-term plasticity enables reliable and flexible learning

    Article • eLife, August 2025, eLife

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  5. Neocortical layer-5 tLTD relies on non-ionotropic presynaptic NMDA receptor signaling

    Article • eLife, July 2025, eLife

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  6. Neocortical Layer-5 tLTD Relies on Non-Ionotropic Presynaptic NMDA Receptor Signaling

    Article • May 2025, eLife

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  7. Neocortical Layer-5 tLTD Relies on Non-Ionotropic Presynaptic NMDA Receptor Signaling

    Article • May 2025, eLife

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  8. Neocortical Layer-5 tLTD Relies on Non-Ionotropic Presynaptic NMDA Receptor Signaling

    Article • April 2025, eLife

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  9. Neocortical Layer-5 tLTD Relies on Non-Ionotropic Presynaptic NMDA Receptor Signaling

    Article • February 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  10. Laser microsurgery for presynaptic interrogation

    Article • Nature Protocols, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  11. Structured connectivity in the output of the cerebellar cortex

    Article • Nature Communications, July 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  12. Comparing mouse and human brains

    Article • eLife, July 2023, eLife

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  13. The developmental profile of visual cortex astrocytes

    Article • iScience, June 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  14. Structured connectivity in the output of the cerebellar cortex

    Article • March 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  15. The plasticitome of cortical interneurons

    Article • Nature Reviews Neuroscience, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  16. Local axonal translation sustains synapse-type-specific neurotransmission

    Article • June 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  17. Pre- and postsynaptically expressed spike-timing-dependent plasticity contribute differentially to neuronal learning

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, June 2022, PLOS

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  18. Pre- and postsynaptically expressed spike-timing-dependent plasticity contribute differentially to neuronal learning

    Article • September 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  19. The secret life of memory receptors

    Article • eLife, July 2021, eLife

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  20. NMDA receptors in axons: there's no coincidence

    Article • The Journal of Physiology, November 2020, Wiley

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  21. A Step-by-Step Protocol for Optogenetic Kindling

    Article • Frontiers in Neural Circuits, January 2020, Frontiers

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  22. Methylene blue inhibits Caspase-6 activity, and reverses Caspase-6-induced cognitive impairment and neuroinflammation in aged mice

    Article • Acta Neuropathologica Communications, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  23. Novel Optogenetic Approaches in Epilepsy Research

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, September 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  24. An Optogenetic Kindling Model of Neocortical Epilepsy

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  25. Editorial overview: Neurobiology of learning and plasticity

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, February 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  26. Pre- and postsynaptically expressed spiking-timing-dependent plasticity contribute differentially to neuronal learning

    Article • October 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  27. Towards resolving the presynaptic NMDA receptor debate

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, August 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  28. CosMIC: A Consistent Metric for Spike Inference from Calcium Imaging

    Article • Neural Computation, July 2018, The MIT Press

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström, Simon Schultz

  29. Differential susceptibility of striatal, hippocampal and cortical neurons to Caspase-6

    Article • Cell Death and Differentiation, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  30. Unconventional NMDA Receptor Signaling

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, November 2017, Society for Neuroscience

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  31. Differential Regulation of Evoked and Spontaneous Release by Presynaptic NMDA Receptors

    Article • Neuron, November 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  32. ABLE: An Activity-Based Level Set Segmentation Algorithm for Two-Photon Calcium Imaging Data

    Article • eNeuro, October 2017, Society for Neuroscience

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  33. Functional consequences of pre- and postsynaptic expression of synaptic plasticity

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  34. Functional consequences of pre- and postsynaptic expression of synaptic plasticity

    Article • September 2016, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  35. Using Multiple Whole-Cell Recordings to Study Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity in Acute Neocortical Slices

    Article • Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, June 2016, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  36. Long-Term Potentiation by Theta-Burst Stimulation Using Extracellular Field Potential Recordings in Acute Hippocampal Slices

    Article • Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, June 2016, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  37. In Vitro Investigation of Synaptic Plasticity

    Article • Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, June 2016, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  38. Neocortex: a lean mean memory storage machine

    Article • Nature Neuroscience, April 2016, Nature

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  39. Functional plasticity at dendritic synapses

    Article • March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  40. Neurons diversify astrocytes in the adult brain through sonic hedgehog signaling

    Article • Science, February 2016, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  41. Synapse-specific expression of calcium-permeable AMPA receptors in neocortical layer 5

    Article • The Journal of Physiology, December 2015, Wiley

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  42. Synapse-type-specific plasticity in local circuits

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, December 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  43. ISDN2014_0407: Optogenetic kindling of cortical circuits elicits epilepsy

    Article • International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, December 2015, Wiley

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  44. Unified pre- and postsynaptic long-term plasticity enables reliable and flexible learning

    Article • eLife, August 2015, eLife

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  45. Neuronal morphometry directly from bitmap images

    Article • Nature Chemical Biology, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström, Professor Alanna Watt

  46. A comparison of manual neuronal reconstruction from biocytin histology or 2-photon imaging: morphometry and computer modeling

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, July 2014, Frontiers

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  47. How to train a neuron

    Article • eLife, January 2013, eLife

    Rui Ponte Costa, Dr Per Jesper Sjöström, Professor Alanna Watt

  48. Target-cell-specific short-term plasticity in local circuits

    Article • Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience, January 2013, Frontiers

    Rui Ponte Costa, Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  49. Probabilistic inference of short-term synaptic plasticity in neocortical microcircuits

    Article • Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, January 2013, Frontiers

    Rui Ponte Costa, Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  50. Target-Specific Expression of Presynaptic NMDA Receptors in Neocortical Microcircuits

    Article • Neuron, August 2012, Elsevier

    Rui Ponte Costa, Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  51. Spike-timing dependent plasticity

    Article • January 2012

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  52. Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity: A Comprehensive Overview

    Article • Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience, January 2012, Frontiers

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  53. Functional specificity of local synaptic connections in neocortical networks

    Article • Nature, April 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  54. One cell to rule them all, and in the dendrites bind them

    Article • Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience, January 2011, Frontiers

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  55. A history of spike-timing-dependent plasticity

    Article • Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience, January 2011, Frontiers

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  56. Spike-timing dependent plasticity

    Article • Scholarpedia, January 2010, Scholarpedia

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  57. Traveling waves in developing cerebellar cortex mediated by asymmetrical Purkinje cell connectivity

    Article • Neuroscience Research, January 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström, Professor Alanna Watt

  58. A piece of the neocortical puzzle: the pyramid-Martinotti cell reciprocating principle

    Article • The Journal of Physiology, November 2009, Wiley

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  59. Frontiers

    Article • October 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström, Professor Guy Trainin

  60. Traveling waves in developing cerebellar cortex mediated by asymmetrical Purkinje cell connectivity

    Article • Nature Neuroscience, March 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström, Professor Alanna Watt

  61. Dendritic Excitability and Synaptic Plasticity

    Article • Physiological Reviews, April 2008, American Physiological Society

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  62. Corrigendum to “Multiple forms of long-term plasticity at unitary neocortical layer 5 synapses” [Neuropharmacology 52 (2007) 176–184]

    Article • Neuropharmacology, March 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  63. Multiple forms of long-term plasticity at unitary neocortical layer 5 synapses

    Article • Neuropharmacology, January 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  64. Optimal Information Storage in Noisy Synapses under Resource Constraints

    Article • Neuron, November 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  65. A Cooperative Switch Determines the Sign of Synaptic Plasticity in Distal Dendrites of Neocortical Pyramidal Neurons

    Article • Neuron, July 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  66. Novel presynaptic mechanisms for coincidence detection in synaptic plasticity

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, June 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  67. Correction: Highly Nonrandom Features of Synaptic Connectivity in Local Cortical Circuits

    Article • PLoS Biology, October 2005, PLOS

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  68. Highly Nonrandom Features of Synaptic Connectivity in Local Cortical Circuits

    Article • PLoS Biology, March 2005, PLOS

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  69. Endocannabinoid-Dependent Neocortical Layer-5 LTD in the Absence of Postsynaptic Spiking

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, August 2004, American Physiological Society

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  70. A proportional but slower NMDA potentiation follows AMPA potentiation in LTP

    Article • Nature Neuroscience, March 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström, Professor Alanna Watt

  71. Neocortical LTD via Coincident Activation of Presynaptic NMDA and Cannabinoid Receptors

    Article • Neuron, August 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  72. Rate and timing in cortical synaptic plasticity

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2002, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  73. Spike timing, calcium signals and synaptic plasticity

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, June 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  74. Rate, Timing, and Cooperativity Jointly Determine Cortical Synaptic Plasticity

    Article • Neuron, December 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström

  75. Artificial neural network-aided image analysis system for cell counting

    Article • Cytometry, May 1999, Wiley

    Dr Per Jesper Sjöström