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Daniel Pollen, M.D.

Academic Role: Professor

Faculty Appointment(s) In:
   Neurology
   Physiology

Other Affiliation(s):
   Program in Neuroscience

            Dr. Pollen is pursuing two primary research interests.  In the basic area, he is attempting to further define the neural correlates of conscious visual perception and to try to determine whether such knowledge will help explain conscious perception itself.  In the clinical research area, he is pursuing efforts to determine whether the genetic risk factors for both early and late onset Alzheimer's disease can be modified pharmacologically.

Publications:

Pollen DA:  Feature article: On the neural correlates of visual perception.  Cerebral Cortex 9:4-19, 1999.

Przybyszewski AW, Gaska JP, Foote W, Pollen DA.  Striate cortex increases contrast gain of LGN neurons.  Visual Neuroscience 17:485-494, 2000.

Pollen DA, Przybyszewski AW, Rubin MA, Foote W.  Spatial receptive field organization of macaque V4 neurons.  Cerebral Cortex. 12:601-616 (2002).

Pollen DA.  Explicit neural representations, recursive neural networks and conscious visual perception.  Cerebral Cortex.  13:807-814 (2003).

Books:

Pollen, Daniel A., Hannah’s Heirs:  The Quest for the Genetic Origins of Alzheimer’s Disease,  Oxford University Press, Publishers.  1993; p.1-296.

Paperback edition, 1996

Japanese edition, 1997

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Phone: 508-856-5667
E-mail: Pollen.Daniel@umassmemorial.org

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