Michael Brecht

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Full professor (W3), Animal Physiology/Systems Neurobiology and Neural Computation

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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Michael Brecht is a Full Professor (W3) in Animal Physiology, specializing in Systems Neurobiology and Neural Computation at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. His research areas include neuroanatomical structures and sensory processing in various animal species, with recent articles focusing on the claustrum in elephants, vibrissae in rats, and the neuroanatomy of human sensory nerves. His contributions advance the understanding of tactile mechanisms and neural computation across species.

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CRC 1315/2, A03: A comparative approach to the consolidation of kinship memory

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BrainPlay - the self-teaching brain

Open Date: 2019-08-01

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EXC 2049: NeuroCure

Open Date: 2019-06-01

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JAVIER DEFELIPE

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Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas

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Lidia Alonso-Nanclares

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

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Lena Valentina Kaufmann

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Matthias Schultze-Kraft

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Imre Vida

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Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

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Angel Merchan-Perez

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

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Assessment of elephant claustrum by combined histological analysis and high-resolution micro-CT

Males but not females report genital sensations evoked by fixed-parameter stimulation of somatosensory cortex

Follicle architecture and innervation of functionally distinct rat vibrissae

Larger brains and relatively smaller cerebella in Asian elephants compared with African savanna elephants

Trunk Tip Wear in Wild African Savanna Elephants

Large brains: Big unknowns in cellular neuroscience

Three-dimensional architecture and linearized mapping of vibrissa follicle afferents

Chromosome level genome assembly of the Etruscan shrew Suncus etruscus

Tactile mechanisms and afferents underlying the rat pup transport response

Water-hose tool use and showering behavior by Asian elephants

Innervation pattern and fiber counts of the human dorsal nerve of clitoris

Cortical synapses of the world's smallest mammal: An FIB/SEM study in the Etruscan shrew

Supra-orbital whiskers act as wind-sensing antennae in rats

Play and tickling responses map to the lateral columns of the rat periaqueductal gray

The functional anatomy of elephant trunk whiskers

Fiber counts and architecture of the human dorsal penile nerve

DiI-CT—A bimodal neural tracer for X-ray and fluorescence imaging

Elephant banana peeling

Coevolution of rostrum and brain in pig species

Dense reconstruction of elephant trunk musculature

The human tickle response and mechanisms of self-tickle suppression

Tickle contagion in the rat somatosensory cortex

Collaborators (6)

JAVIER DEFELIPE

Lidia Alonso-Nanclares

Lena Valentina Kaufmann

Matthias Schultze-Kraft

Imre Vida

Angel Merchan-Perez

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