Peter N. Steinmetz
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Peter Nathan Steinmetz (born October 8, 1959) is an American scientist, research neurologist, and computational neuroscientist. Steinmetz is the founder and senior scientist at the NeurTex Brain Research Institute (NBRI) in Dallas, Texas.
Early life and education[edit]
Born in Kiel, Germany, on October 8, 1959, to American parents, father Donald B. Steinmetz, who was studying under a Fulbright scholarship at the University of Kiel, and mother Ellen (nee Madsen), Peter Steinmetz grew up in the family home of Stillwater, Minnesota (U.S.).
Steinmetz attended Stillwater Senior High School, graduating as a National Merit Scholar. He attended Boston University and the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology, graduating from the latter in 1987 cum laude with a B.S. in Physics with honors. In 1997, Steinmetz graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with an M.D. and Ph.D. in Biomedical engineering.
Career[edit]
in 2015, Steinmetz founded the NeurTex Brain Research Institute (NBRI) based in Dallas, Texas, presently serving as its director of research into human single neuron responses to memory and cognition. The NBRI is presently analyzing and publishing results from over 2 terabytes of prior single unit recordings performed at the Barrow Neurological Institute and other laboratories. Steinmetz' research is presently supported by a grant from the Veritas Fund to the NBRI.
From 1997 to 2001, Steinmetz was a post-doctoral scholar in the laboratories of Ernst Niebur and Kenneth Johnson at Johns Hopkins University and Christof Koch at the California Institute of Technology. From 1987 to 1995, he pursued his M.D. and Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School, working with Profs. Raimond Winslow and Eric Young. From 1983 to 1987, he was founder and president of Steinmetz & Brown Ltd., a computer design and consulting company based in Saint Paul, MN.
Selected publications[edit]
Attention Modulates Synchronized Neuronal Firing in Primate Somatosensory Cortex. P. N. Steinmetz, A. Roy, P. Fitzgerald, S.S. Hsiao, E. Niebur, K. O. Johnson. (2000). Nature, 404:187 – 190.
External Noise Interference in Human Intracranial Microwire Recordings. C.K. Thorp, P.N. Steinmetz, (2009). IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 56 (1): 30-36.
Sparse and distributed coding of episodic memory in neurons of the human hippocampus. Wixted, JT, LR Squire, J Yoonhee, MH Papesh, SD Goldinger, JR Kuhn, KA Smith, DM Treiman, and PN Steinmetz. (2014). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, no. 26: 9621-9626.
Gender Differences in Human Single Neuron Responses to Emotional Faces. Newhoff, M., D. Treiman, KA. Smith, and PN. Steinmetz. (2015). Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9(499). DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00499
Single Neuron Recordings of Bilinguals Performing in a Continuous Recognition Memory Task. Hussey, EK, K Christianson, D. Treiman, KA Smith, and P. N. Steinmetz (2017). Plos One, 12(8): e018850.
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