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Christos Constantinidis, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Neurobiology & Anatomy
WFU Primate Center

Contact Information

Academic: 336-716-7424 | Department: 336-716-7424

Email: cconstan@wakehealth.edu

Education & Training

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University , 1997
B.Sc., Univeristy of Athens , 1992
Fellowship, Yale University School of Medicine, 2001

Memberships

Society for Neuroscience

Christos Constantinidis, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Neurobiology & Anatomy WFU Primate Center

Research Interests

cognition/learning, neurosciences/behavior

Contact Information

Academic: 336-716-7424 | Department: 336-716-7424

Email: cconstan@wakehealth.edu

Recent Publications

Qi X-L, Constantinidis C. Neural changes after training to perform cognitive tasks. Behav Brain Res. 2013;241():235-243.

Meyers EM, Qi X-L, Constantinidis C. Incorporation of new information into prefrontal cortical activity after learning working memory tasks. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012;109(12):4651-4656.

Qi X-L, Meyer T, Stanford TR, Constantinidis C. Neural correlates of a decision variable before learning to perform a match/non-match task. J Neurosci. 2012;32(18):6161-6169.

Katsuki F, Constantinidis C. Unique and shared roles of the posterior parietal and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in cognitive functions. Front Integr Neurosci. 2012;6():17.

Qi X-L, Constantinidis C. Variability of prefrontal neuronal discharges before and after training in a working memory task. PLoS ONE. 2012;7(7):e41053.

Zhou X, Katsuki F, Qi X-L, Constantinidis C. Neurons with inverted tuning during the delay periods of working memory tasks in the dorsal prefrontal and posterior parietal cortex. J Neurophysiol. 2012;108(1):31-38.

Katsuki F, Constantinidis C. Early involvement of prefrontal cortex in visual bottom-up attention. Nat Neurosci. 2012;15(8):1160-1166.

Zhou X, Zhu D, Qi X-L, Palaninathan K, Lees CJ, Bennett AJ, Salinas E, Stanford TR, Constantinidis C. Antisaccade performance and neural activity in the prefrontal cortex of juvenile monkeys [abstract]. Soc Neurosci Abstr. 2012;2012(Neuroscience Meeting Planner):.

Qi X, Lambert BC, Palaninathan K, Constantinidis C. Processing of sequential stimuli in the primate dorsolateral prefrontal and posterior parietal cortex [abstract]. Soc Neurosci Abstr. 2012;2012(Neuroscience Meeting Planner):.

Compte A, Nykamp DQ, Constantinidis C. Continuous attractor dynamics in prefrontal cortex underlies behavioral precision in spatial working memory [abstract]. Soc Neurosci Abstr. 2012;2012(Neuroscience Meeting Planner):.

Qi X-L, Constantinidis C. Correlated discharges in the primate prefrontal cortex before and after working memory training. Eur J Neurosci. 2012;36(11):3538-3548.

Meyer T, Qi X-L, Stanford TR, Constantinidis C. Stimulus selectivity in dorsal and ventral prefrontal cortex after training in working memory tasks. J Neurosci. 2011;31(17):6266-6276.

Qi X-L, Meyer T, Stanford TR, Constantinidis C. Changes in prefrontal neuronal activity after learning to perform a spatial working memory task. Cereb Cortex. 2011;21(12):2722-2732.

Zhou X, Qi X-L, Douglas K, Palaninathan K, Kang HS, Buccafusco JJ, Blake DT, Constantinidis C. Cholinergic modulation of working memory activity in primate prefrontal cortex. J Neurophysiol. 2011;106(5):2180-2188.

Meyers EM, Qi X-L, Constantinidis C. Comparing the information content of PFC before and after training in a working memory task [abstract]. Soc Neurosci Abstr. 2011;2011(Neuroscience Meeting Planner):.

Brendel W, Terrelonge M, Uchida N, Constantinidis C, Romo R, Machens CK. How to deal with the heterogeneity of neural responses: a demixing method [abstract]. Soc Neurosci Abstr. 2011;2011(Neuroscience Meeting Planner):.

Katsuki F, Constantinidis C. Contributions of primate prefrontal and posterior parietal cortex in guiding visual attention [abstract]. In: Abstracts of the 8th World Congress of Neuroscience: International Brain Research Organization; 2011 July 14-18; Florence (Italy). 2011;():A259.

Qi X, Meyer T, Stanford TR, Constantinidis C. Neural correlates of a spatial decision before and after training [abstract]. Soc Neurosci Abstr. 2011;2011(Neuroscience Meeting Planner):.

Katsuki F, Constantinidis C. Early involvement of prefrontal cortex in bottom-up visual attention: comparison of neural response times in monkey prefrontal and posterior parietal cortex [abstract]. J Vis. 2011;11(11):169.

Rawley JB, Constantinidis C. Effects of task and coordinate frame of attention in area 7a of the primate posterior parietal cortex. J Vis. 2010;10(1 Pt 12):1-16.

Qi X-L, Katsuki F, Meyer T, Rawley JB, Zhou X, Douglas KL, Constantinidis C. Comparison of neural activity related to working memory in primate dorsolateral prefrontal and posterior parietal cortex. Front Syst Neurosci. 2010;4():article 12.

Constantinidis C, Qi X-L, Meyer T. Information encoding in prefrontal cortex before and after learning to perform a cognitive task [abstract]. In: Hatsopoulos NG, Pezaris JS, eds. Proceedings of AREADNE 2010; 2010 June 17-20; Santorini (Greece). Cambridge (MA): The AREADNE Foundation Inc.,. 2010;():54.

Katsuki F, Constantinidis C. Finding a salient stimulus: contributions of monkey prefrontal and posterior parietal cortex in a bottom-up visual attention task [abstract]. J Vis. 2010;10(7):90.

Constantinidis C, Qi X-L, Meyer T. Correlated firing between primate prefrontal neurons before and after learning to perform a cognitive task [abstract]. Soc Neurosci Abstr. 2010;2010(Neuroscience Meeting Planner):.

Kang H, Spingath E, Constantinidis C, Plummer TK, Isaac J, Crawford JM, Blake DT. Learning induced plasticity in the primate lateral prefrontal cortex (IPFC) in auditory and visual working memory tasks [abstract]. Soc Neurosci Abstr. 2010;2010(Neuroscience Meeting Planner):.

Rawley JB, Constantinidis C. Neural correlates of learning and working memory in the primate posterior parietal cortex. Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2009;91(2):129-138.

Joelving FC, Compte A, Constantinidis C. Temporal properties of posterior parietal neuron discharges during working memory and passive viewing. J Neurophysiol. 2007;97(3):2254-2266.

Burkhardt JM, Constantinidis C, Anstrom KK, Roberts DCS, Woodward DJ. Synchronous oscillations and phase reorganization in the basal ganglia during akinesia induced by high-dose haloperidol. Eur J Neurosci. 2007;26(7):1912-1924.

Meyer T, Qi XL, Constantinidis C. Persistent discharges in the prefrontal cortex of monkeys naive to working memory tasks. Cereb Cortex. 2007;17(Suppl 1):i70-i76.