Damodaran S, Cressman JR, Jedrzejewski-Szmek Z, Blackwell KT. (2015). Desynchronization of fast-spiking interneurons reduces ß-band oscillations and imbalance in firing in the dopamine-depleted striatum. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 35 [PubMed]

• Striatal NN model of MSNs and FSIs investigated effects of dopamine depletion (Damodaran et al 2015) [Model]

Damodaran S, Evans RC, Blackwell KT. (2014). Synchronized firing of fast-spiking interneurons is critical to maintain balanced firing between direct and indirect pathway neurons of the striatum. Journal of neurophysiology. 111 [PubMed]

• Synchronicity of fast-spiking interneurons balances medium-spiny neurons (Damodaran et al. 2014) [Model]

Morozova EO et al. (2016). Contribution of synchronized GABAergic neurons to dopaminergic neuron firing and bursting. Journal of neurophysiology. 116 [PubMed]

• Excitability of DA neurons and their regulation by synaptic input (Morozova et al. 2016a, 2016b) [Model]

Muddapu VR, Mandali A, Chakravarthy VS, Ramaswamy S. (2019). A Computational Model of Loss of Dopaminergic Cells in Parkinson's Disease Due to Glutamate-Induced Excitotoxicity. Frontiers in neural circuits. 13 [PubMed]

• Excitotoxic loss of dopaminergic cells in PD (Muddapu et al 2019) [Model]

Tarfa RA, Evans RC, Khaliq ZM. (2017). Enhanced Sensitivity to Hyperpolarizing Inhibition in Mesoaccumbal Relative to Nigrostriatal Dopamine Neuron Subpopulations. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 37 [PubMed]

• VTA dopamine neuron (Tarfa, Evans, and Khaliq 2017) [Model]