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Curriculum Vitae of Sergejus Butovas 2Butovas S, Schwarz C. Intracortical microstimulation in barrel cortex of anaesthetized andawake, head-restraint rats: assessment of response thresholds. 35 th Annual Meeting of the Societyfor Neuroscience, Washington, Washington DC, USA, Nov. 2005.Butovas S, Roether C, Schwarz C. Fast excitatory, local responses to intracroticalmicrostimulation are robustly imprinted independent of background activity. 36 th AnnualMeeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, USA, Nov. 2006.Publications:Butovas S, Lukkarinen J, Virtanen T, Jolkkonen J and Sivenius J. (2001) Differential effect of thealpha 2 -adrenoceptor antagonist, atipamezole, in limb-placing task and skilled forepaw use followingexperimental stroke. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience. 18(4):143-51.Butovas S, Lukkarinen J, Virtanen T, Jolkkonen J and Sivenius J. (2002) [Montoya’s staircase testin assessment of recovery after experimental stroke]. Laboratorinė Medicina, (in lithuanian).Butovas S. and Schwarz C. (2003) Spatiotemporal effects of microstimulation in rat neocortex: aparametric study using multielectrode recordings. Journal of Neurophysiology. 90(5):3024-39.Möck M, Butovas S, Schwarz C. (2006) Functional unity of pontine and cerebellar signalprocessing: intrapontine communication is mediated by a reciprocal loop with the cerebellarnuclei. Journal of Neurophysiology. 95(6):3414-25.Butovas S, Hormuzdi SG, Monyer H, Schwarz C. (2006) Effects of electrically coupledinhibitory networks on local neuronal responses to intracortical microstimulation.Journal of Neurophysiology. 96(3):1227-36.Butovas S and Schwarz C. (2007) Detection psychophysics of intracortical microstimulation inrat primary somatosensory cortex. European Journal of Neuroscience. 25(7):2161-9.