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Pietro
Mazzoni, MD PhD
 Assistant Professor of Neurology
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Lab Co-director
Education:
B.S., University of California, San Diego (Physics)
M.D., Harvard University
Ph.D., MIT (Systems Neuroscience)
Residency:
Neurology, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York
Fellowship:
Movement Disorders, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York
Board Certification:
American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry (Neurology)
Research Interests:
- Brain mechanisms responsible for control of limb and eye movements,
specifically visuomotor coordination, and motor learning.
- Effects of movement disorders such as Huntington's disease and
Parkinson's disease on visuomotor coordination and motor learning.
- Brain mechanisms for compensation for neurodegeneration of motor
systems in the early stages of Huntington's disease and Parkinson's
disease.
Clinical Interests:
Movement disorders, including Parkinson's disease, essential tremor,
Huntington's disease, dystonia, tics, myoclonus, tardive dyskinesia.
Clinical web-page:
http://web.neuro.columbia.edu/members/Test3.php?id=64
Selected Publications:
Why don't we move faster? Parkinson's disease, movement vigor, and
implicit motivation (2007). Mazzoni P, Hristova A, Krakauer JW. J
Neurosci. July; 27(27):7105-16.Generalization of Motor Learning Depends on the History of Prior Action (2006). Krakauer JW, Mazzoni P, Ghazizadeh, A., Ravindran, R., Shadmehr, R. PLoS Biology. October; 4(10): e316.
An Implicit Plan Overrides an Explicit Strategy during Visuomotor Adaptation (2006). Mazzoni P, Krakauer JW. Journal of Neuroscience. April 5; 26(14): 3642-5.
Huntington's Disease (2003). Grove M, Vonsattel JP, Mazzoni P, et al. Science of Aging Knowledge Environment. October 29; (43):dn3.
Merritt's Neurology Handbook (2001). Mazzoni P, Rowland LP (eds.). Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins, Baltimore, 2001.
Intracerebral Aneurysms in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: Case Report and Literature Review (2000). Mazzoni P, Chiriboga CA, Millar, WS, Rogers A. Pediatric Neurology. 23: 252-255.
Effect of Reversible Inactivation of Macaque Lateral Intraparietal Area on Visual and Memory Saccades (1999). Li CR, Mazzoni P, Andersen RA. Journal of Neurophysiology. 81:1827-1838.
Eye-centered, Head-centered, and Intermediate Coding of Remembered Sound Locations in Area LIP (1996). Stricanne B, Andersen RA, Mazzoni, P. Journal of Neurophysiology. 76(3):2071-2076.
Motor Intention Activity in the Macaque's Lateral Intraparietal Area. I. Dissociation of Motor Plan from Sensory Memory (1996). Mazzoni P, Bracewell RM, Barash S, Andersen RA. Journal of Neurophysiology. 76(3):1439-1456.
Motor Intention Activity in the Macaque's Lateral Intraparietal Area. II. Changes of Motor Plan. (1996). Bracewell RM, Mazzoni P, Barash S, Andersen RA. Journal of Neurophysiology. 76(3):1457-1464.
Spatially Tuned Auditory Responses in Area LIP of Macaques Performing Delayed Memory Saccades to Acoustic Targets (1996). Mazzoni P, Bracewell RM, Barash S, Andersen RA. Journal of Neurophysiology. 75(3):1233-1241.
A More Biologically Plausible Learning Rule for Neural Networks (1991). Mazzoni P, Andersen RA, Jordan MI. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 88:4433-4437.
A More Biologically Plausible Learning Rule than Backpropagation Applied to a Network Model of Cortical Area 7a. (1991). Mazzoni P, Andersen RA, Jordan MI. Cerebral Cortex. 1:293-307.
For a complete list of laboratory publications, click here.
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