Wilten Nicola, University of Calgary

Research

Crc

Latest papers

Hypothalamic recurrent inhibition regulates functional states of stress effector neurons.
Cell reports · 2026
Homeostatic scaling ensures behavioural stability during corticosterone negative feedback.
Molecular psychiatry · 2026
Neural barcoding representing cortical spatiotemporal dynamics based on continuous-time Markov chains.
Cell reports methods · 2026

All 14 publications

Latest funding

Canada Research Chair - Tier 2
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$500,000
Analyzing Neural Network Dynamics as Forward and Inverse Problems in the Connection Weights
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$12,500
Analyzing Neural Network Dynamics as Forward and Inverse Problems in the Connection Weights
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$130,000

All 5 grants and awards

14 publications.

01

Hypothalamic recurrent inhibition regulates functional states of stress effector neurons.

Ichiyama A, Mestern S, Füzesi T, Allman BL, Nicola W, Bains JS, Muller L, Inoue W

Cell reports2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2026.117741 PMID: 42536483

02

Homeostatic scaling ensures behavioural stability during corticosterone negative feedback.

Rasiah N, Füzesi T, Lameu EL, Landgraf NF, Rosenegger D, Loewen SP, Sterley TL, Akinrinade I, Kash TL, Nicola W, Daviu N, Bains JS

Molecular psychiatry2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41380-025-03391-5 PMID: 41444404

03

Neural barcoding representing cortical spatiotemporal dynamics based on continuous-time Markov chains.

Culp JM, Ashby DM, George AG, Teskey GC, Nicola W, McGirr A

Cell reports methods2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101294 PMID: 41643680

04

Hippocampal phase precession may be generated by chimera dynamics.

Masoliver M, Davidsen J, Nicola W

Frontiers in neural circuits2025Senior author

DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2025.1634298 PMID: 41122543

05

Comparison of FORCE trained spiking and rate neural networks shows spiking networks learn slowly with noisy, cross-trial firing rates.

Newton TR, Nicola W

PLoS computational biology2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013224 PMID: 40690520

06

Contralesional hippocampal spreading depolarization promotes functional recovery after stroke.

Boyce AKJ, Fouad Y, Gom RC, Ashby DM, Martins-Silva C, Molina L, Füzesi T, Ens C, Nicola W, McGirr A, Teskey GC, Thompson RJ

Nature communications2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57119-8 PMID: 40210646

07

Loss of endothelial CD2AP causes sex-dependent cerebrovascular dysfunction.

Vandal M, Institoris A, Reveret L, Korin B, Gunn C, Hirai S, Jiang Y, Lee S, Lee J, Bourassa P, Mishra RC, Peringod G, Arellano F, Belzil C, Tremblay C, Hashem M, Gorzo K, Elias E, Yao J, Meilandt B, Foreman O, Roose-Girma M, Shin S, Muruve D, Nicola W, Körbelin J, Dunn JF, Chen W, Park SK, Braun AP, Bennett DA, Gordon GRJ, Calon F, Shaw AS, Nguyen MD

Neuron2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.01.006 PMID: 39892386

08

The impact of spike timing precision and spike emission reliability on decoding accuracy.

Nicola W, Newton TR, Clopath C

Scientific reports2024First author

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-58524-7 PMID: 38719897

09

Non-trivial relationship between behavioral avalanches and internal neuronal dynamics in a recurrent neural network.

Rabus A, Masoliver M, Gruber AJ, Nicola W, Davidsen J

Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.)2024

DOI: 10.1063/5.0201838 PMID: 38717399

10

Hypothalamic CRH neurons represent physiological memory of positive and negative experience.

Füzesi T, Rasiah NP, Rosenegger DG, Rojas-Carvajal M, Chomiak T, Daviu N, Molina LA, Simone K, Sterley TL, Nicola W, Bains JS

Nature communications2023

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44163-5 PMID: 38129411