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Dimitri Ryczko
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Research
Latest papers
Cell-type specific sensory and motor activity in the cuneiform nucleus and pedunculopontine nucleus in mice.
Scientific reports · 2025 · senior author
Balancing central control and sensory feedback produces adaptable and robust locomotor patterns in a spiking, neuromechanical model of the salamander spinal cord.
PLoS computational biology · 2025
The Mesencephalic Locomotor Region: Multiple Cell Types, Multiple Behavioral Roles, and Multiple Implications for Disease.
The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2024 · first author
Latest funding
- $46,000
The role of basal ganglia in locomotor control in salamanders
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $914,175
Role of newly uncovered dopamine-sensitive neurons in brainstem locomotor circuits.
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
- $149,916
Confocal calcium imaging and electrophysiology in live brain cells for neuroscience research at Université de Sherbrooke
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
20 publications.
Cell-type specific sensory and motor activity in the cuneiform nucleus and pedunculopontine nucleus in mice.
van der Zouwen CI, Juárez Tello A, Suresh JS, Duque-Yate J, Hsu T, Konanur V, Boutin J, Roitman MF, Ryczko D
Balancing central control and sensory feedback produces adaptable and robust locomotor patterns in a spiking, neuromechanical model of the salamander spinal cord.
Pazzaglia A, Bicanski A, Ferrario A, Arreguit J, Ryczko D, Ijspeert A
The Mesencephalic Locomotor Region: Multiple Cell Types, Multiple Behavioral Roles, and Multiple Implications for Disease.
Ryczko D
Dopamine-sensitive neurons in the mesencephalic locomotor region control locomotion initiation, stop, and turns.
Juárez Tello A, van der Zouwen CI, Dejas L, Duque-Yate J, Boutin J, Medina-Ortiz K, Suresh JS, Swiegers J, Sarret P, Ryczko D
Dopamine control of downstream motor centers.
Ryczko D, Dubuc R
Locomotor pattern generation and descending control: a historical perspective.
Dubuc R, Cabelguen JM, Ryczko D
From retina to motoneurons: A substrate for visuomotor transformation in salamanders.
Flaive A, Ryczko D
Optogenetic stimulation of glutamatergic neurons in the cuneiform nucleus controls locomotion in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease.
Fougère M, van der Zouwen CI, Boutin J, Neszvecsko K, Sarret P, Ryczko D
Emergence of robust self-organized undulatory swimming based on local hydrodynamic force sensing.
Thandiackal R, Melo K, Paez L, Herault J, Kano T, Akiyama K, Boyer F, Ryczko D, Ishiguro A, Ijspeert AJ
Heterogeneous expression of dopaminergic markers and Vglut2 in mouse mesodiencephalic dopaminergic nuclei A8-A13.
Fougère M, van der Zouwen CI, Boutin J, Ryczko D
The role of basal ganglia in locomotor control in salamanders
Principal investigators: Ryczko, Dimitri
Keywords: locomotion; gait transition; brainstem; mesencephalic locomotor region; reticulospinal neurons; striatum; dopamine; electrophysiology; calcium imaging; salamander
Role of newly uncovered dopamine-sensitive neurons in brainstem locomotor circuits.
Principal investigators: Ryczko, Dimitri B
Keywords: Brainstem; Dopamine; Locomotion
Confocal calcium imaging and electrophysiology in live brain cells for neuroscience research at Université de Sherbrooke
Principal investigators: Ryczko, Dimitri
Deciphering the role of the newly uncovered dopaminergic pathways to brainstem locomotor circuits in mammals: from cell to behaviour.
Principal investigators: Ryczko, Dimitri B
Keywords: Brainstem; Dopamine; Locomotion
Brainstem and spinal mechanisms of gait transition in a limbed vertebrate
Principal investigators: Ryczko, Dimitri
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Philippe Sarret and Dimitri Ryczko: 3 shared papers
- Philippe Sarret and Turgay Akay: 1 shared paper
- Dimitri Ryczko and Turgay Akay: 1 shared paper
- Pharmacologie - Physiologie
- Obstétrique et gynécologie
- Medical Neuroscience
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