Education and Positions | | Since 01/05/2010 | Coordinator of the Bernstein-Center for Computational Neuroscience Heidelberg-Mannheim | Since 15/10/2008 | Head of Computational Neuroscience Group at Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim | Feb. 2005 – 15/10/2008 | Reader (Associate Professor) for Computational Neuroscience, Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, University of Plymouth, UK | Dec. 2000 – Jan. 2005 | Research Group Leader, Lab for Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany | Sept. 1998 – Dec. 2000 | Research Associate at Computational Neurobiology Lab, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, USA | June 1998 | Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.) received from Ruhr-University of Bochum (Germany) | Oct. 1994 – Aug. 1998 | Ph.D. scholarship in Cognition, Brain, & Neural Networks graduate program, Ruhr-University Bochum | Sept. 1994 | Diploma: Major in Psychology, Minor in Mathematics | Oct. 1992 – April 1994 | Student of Informatics at Technical University of Berlin, Germany | April 1989 – Sept. 1994 | Student of Psychology at Technical University of Berlin, Germany |
| Awards | | July 2008 | Heisenberg-Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) | 2002 – 2007 | Membership in the 'Junge Akademie', a young scientist branch at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akad. der Wiss. (since 2008 National Academy of Science) | Nov. 2000 | Emmy-Noether-Award (Young Scientist Excellence Program) of the DFG | Dec. 1998 | Award of the Ruhr-University Bochum for outstanding Ph.D. thesis |
Selected publications
Durstewitz, D. *, Vittoz, N.M. *, Floresco, S.B., & Seamans, J.K. (2010) Abrupt transitions between prefrontal neural ensemble states accompany behavioral transitions during rule learning. Neuron 66: 438-48. *shared first-authorship
Lapish, C.C.*, Durstewitz, D.*, Chandler, L.J., & Seamans, J.K. (2008) Successful choice behavior is associated with distinct and coherent network states in anterior cingulate cortex. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105: 11963-8. *shared first-authorship
Durstewitz, D., Seamans, J.K. (2008) The dual-state theory of prefrontal cortex dopamine function with relevance to COMT genotypes and schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry 64: 739-749.
Durstewitz, D., & Gabriel, T. (2007) Dynamical basis of irregular spiking in NMDA-driven prefrontal cortex neurons. Cerebral Cortex 17, 894-908. Epub June 2006.
Durstewitz, D. (2003) Self-organizing neural integrator predicts interval times through climbing activity. Journal of Neuroscience 23, 5342-5353.
Durstewitz, D., Seamans, J.K., & Sejnowski, T.J. (2000) Neurocomputational models of working memory. Nature Neuroscience Suppl. 3, 1184-1191. |
