Publications on the Nigrostriatal System

• Kötter R. & Schirok D. (1999) Towards an integration of biochemical and biophysical models of neuronal information processing: a case study in the nigro-striatal system. Rev. Neurosci. 10: 247-266. [abstract]
• Hilgetag C.C., Kötter R., Young M.P. (1999) Inter-hemispheric competition of sub-cortical structures is a crucial mechanism in paradoxical lesion effects and spatial neglect. Prog. Brain Res. 121: 121-141.

Kötter R. (1999) Motor fluctuations in Parkinson's disease: a postsynaptic mechanism derived from a striatal model. Prog. Brain Res. 121: 277-288.
• Kötter R., Schirok D., Zilles K. (1998) Dopamine-mediated dephosphorylation of N/P-type calcium channels in striatal neurons: a quantitative model. In: Paton R.C. & Holcombe M. (eds.) Information Processing in Cells and Tissues. Plenum, New York, pp. 95-106.
• Kötter R. & Wickens J.R. (1998) Striatal mechanisms in Parkinson's disease: new insights from computer modeling. Artif. Intell. Med. 13: 37-55. [abstract]
• Kötter R. & Feizelmeier M. (1998) Species-dependence and relationship of morphological and electrophysiological properties in nigral compacta neurons. Prog. Neurobiol. 54: 619-632. [abstract]

Kötter R. & Feizelmeier M. (1996) Computer simulation study of ionic mechanisms underlying voltage traces recorded from dopaminergic neurons. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., Vol. 22, Part 3, p. 2028, No. 798.2.
Kötter R., Schirok D., Zilles K. (1996) Concerted regulation of cyclic AMP by calcium/calmodulin complex and dopamine: a kinetic modelling approach. In: Cuthbertson R., Holcombe, M., Paton, R. (eds.) Computation in Cellular and Molecular Biological Systems. World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 29-41.
Kötter R. & Feizelmeier M. (1996) Relationship between morphological and electrophysiological properties of dopaminergic neurons. In: Bower J.M. (ed.) Computational Neuroscience. Trends in Research 1995. Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 89-94.
• Kötter R. & Wickens J.R. (1995) Interactions of glutamate and dopamine in a computational model of the striatum. J. Comput. Neurosci. 2: 195-214. [abstract]
• Wickens J.R., Kötter R., Alexander M.E. (1995) Effects of local connectivity on striatal function: simulation and analysis of a model. Synapse 20: 281-298. [abstract]

Kötter R. & Wickens J. (1995) Effects of an excitatory synaptic conductance and a slow membrane potassium conductance in an inhibitory striatal network model. In: Herrmann H.J., Wolf D.E., Pöppel E. (eds.) Supercomputing in Brain Research: From Tomography to Neural Networks. World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 257-263.
Kötter R. (1995) An equilibrium model of biochemical interactions between glutamatergic and dopaminergic signals in striatal neurons. In: Bower J.M. (ed.) The Neurobiology of Computation. Kluwer Academic, Boston, pp. 15-20.
Kötter R., Alexander M.E., Wickens J.R. (1995) Effects of asymmetric neuronal connectivity and dopamine on striatal function: simulation and analysis of a model for Huntington's disease. In: Bower J.M. (ed.) The Neurobiology of Computation. Kluwer Academic, Boston, pp. 239-244.
Wickens J. & Kötter R. (1995) Cellular models of reinforcement. In: Houk J.C., Davis J.L., Beiser D.G. (eds.) Models of Information Processing in the Basal Ganglia. MIT Press, Cambridge, pp. 187-214.
Kötter R., Bidmon H.J., Zanger K., Staneva-Dobrovski L., Jancsik V., Zilles K. (1995) Immunelektronenmikroskopische Studien zur Lokalisation von Mikrotubuli-assoziiertem Protein 2 im Striatum. Ann. Anat. 177 (Suppl.): 65.
• Kötter R. (1994) Postsynaptic integration of glutamatergic and dopaminergic signals in the striatum. Prog. Neurobiol. 44: 163-196.

Borisyuk R.M., Wickens J.R., Kötter R. (1994) Reinforcement learning in a network model of the basal ganglia. In: Trappl R. (ed.) Cybernetics and Systems '94, World Scientific, Singapore, Vol.2, pp. 1681-1686.
Kötter R. & Wickens J.R. (1993) A computer model of the striatum in a behavioural blocking paradigm. Int. J. Neurosci. 71: 119-120.