Gidon Felsen, PhD

Publications

• Midbrain contributions to sensorimotor decision making. Felsen G, Mainen ZF. J Neurophysiol. 2012;108(1):135-47.
• Rats can make relative perceptual judgments about sequential stimuli. Perry C, Felsen G. Anim Cogn. 2012;15(4):473-81.
• Thompson, J. A. and Felsen, G. (2012). Activity in the mouse pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus correlates with action selection and execution. Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA.
• Castelo, N., Reiner, P. B., and Felsen, G. (2012). Autonomy and decisional enhancement: public attitudes towards overt and covert nudges. International Neuroethics Society, New Orleans, LA.
• Thompson JA, Felsen G. Activity in mouse pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus reflects action and outcome in a decision-making task. J Neurophysiol. 2013 Dec;110(12):2817-29. PubMed PMID: 24089397
• Al-Juboori SI, Dondzillo A, Stubblefield EA, Felsen G, Lei TC, Klug A. Light scattering properties vary across different regions of the adult mouse brain. PLoS One. 2013;8(7):e67626. PubMed PMID: 23874433
• Stubblefield EA, Costabile JD, Felsen G. Optogenetic investigation of the role of the superior colliculus in orienting movements. Behav Brain Res. 2013 Oct 15;255:55-63. PubMed PMID: 23643689
• Felsen, G., Castelo, N., and Reiner, P. B. Decisional enhancement and autonomy: public attitudes towards overt and covert nudges. Judgment and Decision Making 2013; 8(3):202-213.
• Felsen, G. and Reiner, P. B. Having the capacity for autonomy is insufficient to provide meaningful autonomy. American Journal of Bioethics – Neuroscience 2013; 4(4):52-53.
• Gire, D.H., Dang, Q. N., Costabile, J., Bozza, T., Felsen, G., and Restrepo, D. (2012). Precise optical control of olfactory sensory neuron input elucidates olfactory bulb circuit function in awake, freely moving mice. Association of Chemoreception Sciences, Huntington Beach, CA.
• Lintz, M. and Felsen, G. (2014). Context-dependence of action selection in the basal ganglia. Abstract, Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C.
• Dang, Q. N., Costabile, J., Stubblefield, E., Al-Juboori, S., Bozza, T., Lei, T., Felsen, G., Restrepo, D., and Gire, D.H. (2012). A novel array design that incorporates tetrode recordings with optogenetic stimulation. Association of Chemoreception Sciences, Huntington Beach, CA.
• Dondzillo, A., Al-Juboori, S., Stubblefield, E., Felsen, G., Klug, A., and Lee, T. (2012). Light scattering properties differ between different areas of the adult mouse brain. Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA.
• Felsen, G. (2013). Subcortical contributions to orienting decisions in rodents. Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Thompson, J. A. and Felsen, G. (2013). Activity in mouse pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus reflects priors for action value. Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Thompson JA, Costabile JD, Felsen G. Mesencephalic representations of recent experience influence decision making. Elife. 2016 Jul 25;5. PubMed PMID: 27454033
• Wolf AB, Lintz MJ, Costabile JD, Thompson JA, Stubblefield EA, Felsen G. An integrative role for the superior colliculus in selecting targets for movements. J Neurophysiol. 2015 Oct;114(4):2118-31. PubMed PMID: 26203103
• Lintz MJ, Felsen G. Basal ganglia output reflects internally-specified movements. Elife. 2016 Jul 5;5. PubMed PMID: 27377356
• Niker F, Reiner PB, Felsen G. Pre-Authorization: A Novel Decision-Making Heuristic That May Promote Autonomy. Am J Bioeth. 2016 May;16(5):27-9. PubMed PMID: 27111363
• Stubblefield EA, Thompson JA, Felsen G. Optogenetic cholinergic modulation of the mouse superior colliculus in vivo. J Neurophysiol. 2015 Aug;114(2):978-88. PubMed PMID: 26019317
• Essig J, Felsen G. Warning! Dopaminergic Modulation of the Superior Colliculus. Trends Neurosci. 2016 Jan;39(1):2-4. PubMed PMID: 26717852
• Felsen, G. and Reiner, P. B. What can neuroscience contribute to the debate over nudging? Review of Philosophy and Psychology 2015; 6:469-479.
• Niker, F., Reiner, P. B., and Felsen, G. Updating our selves: synthesizing philosophical and neurobiological perspectives on incorporating new information into our worldview. Neuroethics, in press.
• Thompson JA, Tekriwal A, Felsen G, Ozturk M, Telkes I, Wu J, Ince NF, Abosch A. Sleep patterns in Parkinson's disease: direct recordings from the subthalamic nucleus. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2018 Jan;89(1):95-104. PubMed PMID: 28866626
• Kolb R, Abosch A, Felsen G, Thompson JA. Use of intraoperative local field potential spectral analysis to differentiate basal ganglia structures in Parkinson's disease patients. Physiol Rep. 2017 Jun;5(12). PubMed PMID: 28642341
• Felsen, G. and Reiner, P. B. Quantitative anticipatory ethical analysis should inform neurotechnology development. American Journal of Bioethics – Neuroscience 2017, 8:75-77.
• Wolf, A. B. and Felsen, G. How public health policy can be informed by neuroscience. Behavioural Public Policy, in press.
• Allen CH, Vold K, Felsen G, Blumenthal-Barby JS, Aharoni E. Reconciling the opposing effects of neurobiological evidence on criminal sentencing judgments. PLoS One. 2019;14(1):e0210584. PubMed PMID: 30657761
• Niker F, Reiner PB, Felsen G. Perceptions of Undue Influence Shed Light on the Folk Conception of Autonomy. Front Psychol. 2018;9:1400. PubMed PMID: 30135670
• Tekriwal A, Felsen G, Thompson JA. Modular auditory decision-making behavioral task designed for intraoperative use in humans. J Neurosci Methods. 2018 Jul 1;304:162-167. PubMed PMID: 29746889
• Thompson JA, Tekriwal A, Felsen G, Ozturk M, Telkes I, Wu J, Ince NF, Abosch A. Sleep patterns in Parkinson's disease: direct recordings from the subthalamic nucleus. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2018 Jan;89(1):95-104. PubMed PMID: 28866626
• Felsen G. Research Ethics in Conscious Subjects: Old Questions, New Contexts. J Law Med Ethics. 2019 Dec;47(4):768-770. PubMed PMID: 31957578
• Tekriwal A, Afshar NM, Santiago-Moreno J, Kuijper FM, Kern DS, Halpern CH, Felsen G, Thompson JA. Neural Circuit and Clinical Insights from Intraoperative Recordings During Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery. Brain Sci. 2019 Jul 20;9(7). PubMed PMID: 31330813
• Lintz MJ, Essig J, Zylberberg J, Felsen G. Spatial representations in the superior colliculus are modulated by competition among targets. Neuroscience. 2019 Jun 1;408:191-203. PubMed PMID: 30981865
• Allen CH, Vold K, Felsen G, Blumenthal-Barby JS, Aharoni E. Reconciling the opposing effects of neurobiological evidence on criminal sentencing judgments. PLoS One. 2019;14(1):e0210584. PubMed PMID: 30657761
• Wolf, A. B. and Felsen, G. How public health policy can be informed by neuroscience. Behavioural Public Policy 2019, 3:37-46.
• Felsen G. Ethical implications of BRAIN 2.0: Beyond bioethics, beyond borders. AJOB Neurosci. 2020 Jul-Sep;11(3):196-198. PubMed PMID: 33251036
• Doykos TK, Gilmer JI, Person AL, Felsen G. Monosynaptic inputs to specific cell types of the intermediate and deep layers of the superior colliculus. J Comp Neurol. 2020 Sep 1;528(13):2254-2268. PubMed PMID: 32080842
• Ethical Issues Raised by Recent Developments in Neuroscience: The Case of Optogenetics
• Essig J, Felsen G. Functional coupling between target selection and acquisition in the superior colliculus. J Neurophysiol. 2021 Nov 1;126(5):1524-1535. PubMed PMID: 34550032
• Tekriwal A, Lintz MJ, Thompson JA, Felsen G. Disrupted basal ganglia output during movement preparation in hemiparkinsonian mice is consistent with behavioral deficits. J Neurophysiol. 2021 Oct 1;126(4):1248-1264. PubMed PMID: 34406873
• Essig J, Hunt JB, Felsen G. Inhibitory neurons in the superior colliculus mediate selection of spatially-directed movements. Commun Biol. 2021 Jun 11;4(1):719. PubMed PMID: 34117346
• Niker, F., Felsen, G., Nagel, S. and Reiner, P. B. Autonomy, Evidence-Responsiveness, and the Ethics of Influence. In The Law and Ethics of Freedom of Thought, Volume 1: Neuroscience, Autonomy, and Individual Rights. Palgrave Studies in Law, Neuroscience, and Human Behavior, 2021. Eds: Blitz, M. & Bublitz, J. C.
• Tekriwal A, Baker S, Christensen E, Petersen-Jones H, Tien RN, Ojemann SG, Kern DS, Kramer DR, Felsen G, Thompson JA. Quantifying neuro-motor correlations during awake deep brain stimulation surgery using markerless tracking. Sci Rep. 2022 Oct 27;12(1):18120. PubMed PMID: 36302865
• Baker S, Tekriwal A, Felsen G, Christensen E, Hirt L, Ojemann SG, Kramer DR, Kern DS, Thompson JA. Automatic extraction of upper-limb kinematic activity using deep learning-based markerless tracking during deep brain stimulation implantation for Parkinson's disease: A proof of concept study. PLoS One. 2022;17(10):e0275490. PubMed PMID: 36264986
• Tekriwal A, Felsen G, Ojemann SG, Abosch A, Thompson JA. Motor context modulates substantia nigra pars reticulata spike activity in patients with Parkinson's disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2022 Apr;93(4):386-394. PubMed PMID: 35193951
• Felsen G, Blumenthal-Barby J. 7 Ethical Issues Raised by Recent Developments in Neuroscience: The Case of Optogenetics. 2022. PubMed PMID: 36095106
• Baker, S., Fenstermacher, E., Davis, R. A., Kern, D. S., Thompson, J. A., Felsen, G., Baumgartner, A. J. Ethical considerations in closed loop deep brain stimulation. Deep Brain Stimulation 2023, 3:8-15.