Publications
Maternal circuits
Valtcheva S*#, Issa HA*, Bair-Marshall CJ, Martin KA, Jung K, Zhang Y, Kwon HB, Froemke RC#, Neural circuitry for maternal oxytocin release induced by infant cries. 2023 Nature. Sep;621(7980):788-795. (*co-first author; #co-corresponding author)
Schiavo JK, Valtcheva S, Bair-Marshall CJ, Song SC, Martin KA, Froemke RC, Innate and plastic mechanisms for maternal behaviour in auditory cortex. 2020 Nature. Nov;587(7834):426-431.
Synaptic plasticity
Glennon E, Valtcheva S, Zhu A, Wadghiri YZ, Svirsky MA, Froemke RC, Locus coeruleus activity improves cochlear implant performance. 2023 Nature. Jan;613(7943):317-323.
Valtcheva S*, Paillé V*, Dembitskaya Y, Perez S, Gangarossa G, Fino E, Venance L, Developmental control of spike-timing dependent plasticity by tonic GABAergic signaling in striatum. 2017 Neuropharmacology. Jul 15;121:261-277. (*co-first author)
Valtcheva S, Venance L, Astrocytes gate Hebbian synaptic plasticity in the striatum. 2016 Nat Commun. Dec 20;7:13845.
Synaptic transmission and signal transduction
Piette C, Vandecasteele M, Bosch-Bouju C, Goubard V, Paillé V, Cui Y, Mendes A, Perez S, Valtcheva S, Xu H, Pouget P, Venance L, Intracellular properties of deep-layer pyramidal neurons in Frontal Eye Field of macaque monkeys. 2021 Front Syn Neurosci. Sep 21;13:725880.
Nelson M, Valtcheva S, Venance L, Magnitude and behavior of cross-talk effects in multi-channel electrophysiology experiments. 2017 J Neurophysiol. Jul 1;118(1):574-594.
Gomes JM, Bédard C, Valtcheva S, Nelson M, Khokhlova V, Pouget P, Venance L, Bal T, Destexhe A, Intracellular impedance measurements reveal non-ohmic properties of the extracellular medium around neurons. 2016 Biophys J. Jan 5;110(1):234-46.
Reviews
Valtcheva S#, Venance L#, Control of long-term plasticity by glutamate transporters. 2019 Front Syn Neurosci. Apr 9;11:10. (#co-corresponding author)
Valtcheva S, Froemke RC, Neuromodulation of Maternal Circuits by Oxytocin. 2019 Cell Tissue Res. Jan;375(1):57-68.
Foncelle A, Mendes A, Jędrzejewska-Szmek J, Valtcheva S, Berry H, Blackwell KT, Venance L, Modulation of spike-timing dependent plasticity: towards the inclusion of a third factor in computational models. 2018 Front Comput Neurosci. Jul 3;12:49.