11 Facts About Attila Losonczy

Attila Losonczy was born on 1974 and is a Hungarian neuroscientist, Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University Medical Center.

Attila Losonczy's group conducts research on spatial navigation and episodic learning in animal models as well as the pathology of cognitive memory deficits in neurodegenerative disorders and psychiatric disorders such as PTSD and anxiety.

Attila Losonczy is currently working on developing in vivo imaging methods using two-photon microscopy and calcium imaging to simultaneously image hundreds of hippocampal place cells in conscious mice performing spatial tasks.

Attila Losonczy received the MD degree from the University of Pecs Medical School in 1999, and subsequently the PhD degree at Semmelweis University in Neurobiology in 2004 with a thesis entitled "Underlying mechanisms of short-term synaptic plasticity at identified central synapses," advised by Zoltan Nusser.

In 2003, he moved from Hungary to the United States; from 2003 to 2006, Attila Losonczy was a postdoctoral fellow at Louisiana State University with Jeffrey Magee.

From 2007 to 2009, Attila Losonczy worked as a research specialist at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, again working with Magee.

In 2009, Attila Losonczy joined the faculty at Columbia University as a professor.

Since 2010, Attila Losonczy has been a member of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science.

Attila Losonczy was awarded the BRAIN Initiative Award by the National Institute of Health in two consecutive years, 2014 and 2015.

Attila Losonczy is a journal reviewer for Science, Cell, Nature Neuroscience, and Neuron, among others.

Rather, Attila Losonczy found that the firing of older cells was more localised and newborn neurons fire indiscriminately, not taking on a stereotyped firing pattern until they got older.