Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Hatfield Marine Science Center
Newport, OR 97365
gmpitsos@slugo.hmsc.orst.edu
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University of Virginia, Ph.D., 1969
University of Michigan, B.S., 1963
George Mpitsos' research is concerned with neurophysiology and neuropharmacology of behavior and associative learning in molluscs. His studies involve the role of chaos and other forms of variability in the self-organization of adaptive behavior. His experiments combine biological and computer simulation studies.
Mpitsos GJ. Attractor gradients: Architects of developmental organization. In: Leonard JL, ed. Identified Neurons: Twenty-Five Years of Progress. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; 1996. In press.
Andrade MA, Nuño JC, Moran F, Montero F, Mpitsos GJ. Complex dynamics of a catalytic network having faulty replication into an error species. Physica D. 1993;63:21-40.
Mpitsos GJ, Soinila S. In search of a unifying theory of biological organization: What does the motor system of a sea slug tell us about human motor integration? In: Newell JM, Corcos D, eds. Variability and Motor Control. Champaign: Human Kinetics; 1993:225-290.
Burton RM, Mpitsos GJ. Event-dependent control of noise enhances learning in neural networks. Neural Networks. 1992;5:627-637.
Mpitsos GJ, Burton RM. Convergence and divergence in neural networks: Processing of chaos and biological analogy. Neural Networks. 1992;5:605-625.
Soinila S, Mpitsos GJ. Immunohistochemistry of diverging and converging neurotransmitter systems in molluscs. Biological Bulletin. 1991;181:484-499.
Soinila S, Mpitsos GJ, Soinila J. Enkephalin immunohistochemistry: Model studies on conjugation reaction and fixation. Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry. 1992;40:231-239.
Mpitsos GJ. Chaos in brain function and the problem of non-stationarity: A commentary. In: Basar E, Bullock TH, eds. Dynamics of Sensory and Cognitive Processing by the Brain. New York: Springer-Verlag; 1989:521-535.
Mpitsos GJ, Murray TF, Creech HC, Barker DL. Muscarinic antagonist enhances one-trial food-aversion learning in Pleurobranchaea. Brain Research Bulletin. 1988;21:169-179.
Mpitsos GJ, Burton RM, Creech HC, Soinila SO. Evidence for chaos in spike trains of neurons that generate rhythmic motor patterns. Brain Research Bulletin. 1988;21:529-538.
Mpitsos GJ, Burton RM, Creech HC, Soinila SO. Connectionist networks learn to transmit chaos. Brain Research Bulletin. 1988. In press.
Mpitsos GJ, Creech HC, Cohan CS, Mendelson M. Variability and chaos: Neurointegrative principles in self-organization of motor patterns. In: Kelso JAS, Mandell A, Shlesinger MF, eds. Dynamic Patterns in Complex Systems. Singapore, NJ: World Scientific Press; 1988:162-190.
Mpitsos GJ, Murray TF, Creech HC, Barker DL. Muscarinic cholinrgic action in one-trial food-aversion conditioning: Scopolamine enhances experimental-control differences in the mollusc Pleurobranchaea. Brain Research Bulletin. 1988. In press.
Murray TF, Mpitsos GJ. Evidence for heterogeneity of muscarinic receptors in the mollusc Pleurobranchaea. Brain Research Bulletin. 1988. In press.
