Dr. habil. Tamas Farkas

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Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsMolecular Biology and Physiology of Neurons and Glial Cells
Keywordselectrophysiological recordings, neural plasticity, neurobiotin labelling, peripheral nerve injury, unmasking of latent synapses

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CountryHungary
CitySzeged
InstitutionUniversity of Szeged
InstituteDepartment of Physiology, Anatomy and Neurosciences

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Joachim R. WolffFachbereich Medizin, Zentrum Anatomie, Abteilung Klinische Anatomie und Entwicklungsneurobiologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2000

Programme(s)

1999Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2006Gabriella Juhasz-Vedres, Eva Rozsa, Marton B Dobszay, Zsolt Kis, Janos Wolfling, Jozsef Toldi, Arpad Parducz, Tamas Farkas: Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) is neuroprotective when administered either pre- or post-injury in a focal cortical cold lesion model. In: Endocrinology, 2006, 683-686
2005Viktor Szegedi, Livia Fulop, Tamas Farkas, Eva Rozsa, Hermina Robotka, Zsolt Kis, Zsuzsa Penke, Szatmar Horvath, Zsolt Molnar, Zsolt Datki, Katalin Soos, Jozsef Toldi, Denes Budai, Marta Zarandi, Botond Penke: Pentapeptides derived from Abeta 1-42 protect neurons from the modulatory effect of Abeta fibrils--an in vitro and in vivo electrophysiological study. In: Neurobiology of Disease, 2005, 499-508
2005Szatmar Horvath, Emese Prandovszky, Eszter Pankotai, Zsolt Kis, Tamas Farkas, Zsolt Boldogkoi, Krisztina Boda, Zoltan Janka, Jozsef Toldi: Use of a recombinant pseudorabies virus to analyze motor cortical reorganization after unilateral facial denervation. In: Cerebral Cortex, 2005, 378-384
2004Judit Fuvesi, Csaba Somlai, Hajnalka Nemeth, Hedvig Varga, Zsolt Kis, Tamas Farkas, Norbert Karoly, Marton B Dobszay, Zsuzsa Penke, Botond Penke, Laszlo Vecsei, Jozsef Toldi: Comparative study on the effects of kynurenic acid and glucosamine-kynurenic acid. In: Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, 2004, 95-102
2004Zsolt Kis, Gabriella Rakos, Tamas Farkas, Szatmar Horvath, Jozsef Toldi: Facial nerve injury induces facilitation of responses in both trigeminal and facial nuclei of rat. In: Neuroscience Letters, 2004, 223-225
2004Hajnalka Nemeth, Hermina Robotka, Zsolt Kis, Eva Rozsa, Tamas Janaky, Csaba Somlai, Mate Marosi, Tamas Farkas, Jozsef Toldi, Laszlo Vecsei: Kynurenine administered together with probenecid markedly inhibits pentylenetetrazol-induced seizures. An electrophysiological and behavioural study. In: Neuropharmacology, 2004, 916-925
2003Tamas Farkas, Eniko Racekova, Zsolt Kis, Szatmar Horvath, Jozef Burda, Jan Galik, Jozsef Toldi: Peripheral nerve injury influences the disinhibition induced by focal ischaemia in the rat motor cortex. In: Neuroscience Letters, 2003, 49-52
2001Hajnalka Nemeth, Tamas Farkas, Zsolt Kis, Laszlo Vecsei, Joachim R Wolff, Jozsef Toldi: Long-term effects of neonatal MK-801 treatment on spatial learning and cortical plasticity in adult rats. In: Psychopharmacology, 2001, 1-8
2001Zsolt Kis, Denes Budai, Gabor Imre,Tamas Farkas, Szatmar Horvath, Jozsef Toldi: The modulatory effect of estrogen on the neuronal activity in the barrel cortex of the rat. An electrophysiological study. In: Neuroreport, 2001, 2509-2512
2001Tamas Farkas, Jozsef Toldi: Unmasking of latent synaptic connections in the cortex of the rat, elicited by facial nerve transection. In: Acta Biologica Szegediensis, 2001, 51-55
2000Laszlo Negyessy, Viktor Gal, Tamas Farkas, Jozsef Toldi: Cross-modal plasticity of the corticothalamic circuits in rats enucleated on the first postnatal day. In: European Journal of Neuroscience, 2000, 1654-1668
2000Tamas Farkas, Janos Perge, Zsolt Kis, Joachim R Wolff, Jozsef Toldi: Facial nerve injury-induced disinhibition in the primary motor cortices of both hemispheres. In: European Journal of Neuroscience, 2000, 2190-2194
1999Tamas Farkas, Zsolt Kis, Jozsef Toldi, Joachim R Wolff: Activation of the primary motor cortex by somatosensory stimulation in adult rats is mediated mainly by associational connections from the somatosensory cortex. In: Neuroscience, 1999, 353-361
1999Zsolt Kis, Tamas Farkas, Katalin Rabl, Edina Kis, Katalin Korodi, Laszlo Simon, Ildiko Marusin, Jozsef Toldi: Comparative study of the neuronal plasticity along the neuraxis of the vibrissal sensory system of adult rat following unilateral infraorbital nerve damage and subsequent regeneration. In: Experimental Brain Research, 1999, 259-269
1999Jozsef Toldi, Tamas Farkas, Janos Perge, Joachim R Wolff: Facial nerve injury produces a latent somatosensory input through recruitement of the motor cortex in the rat. In: Neuroreport, 1999, 2143-2147
1997Tamas Farkas, Imre Rojik, Ferenc Laszlo, Csaba Varga, Jozsef Toldi: Neuroplastic effects of neonatal capsaicin on barrel cortex of adult rat. An electrophysiological and autoradiographic study. In: European Journal of Neurology, 1997, 397-403
1996Tamas Farkas, Katalin Korodi, Jozsef Toldi: Muscarinic cholinergic effects on stimulus-evoked responses in rat primary somatosensory cortex. An electrophysiological study. In: Acta Biologica Academia Scientiarum Hungaricae, 1996, 247-252
1996Tamas Farkas, Katalin Korodi, Jozsef Toldi: Stimulus-dependent muscarinic effects on evoked unit activity in the rat barrel cortex. In: Neuroscience Letters, 1996, 61-64
1994Jozef Toldi, Tamas Farkas, Bela Volgyi: Neonatal enucleation induces cross-modal changes in the barrel cortex of rat. A behavioural and electrophysiological study. In: Neuroscience Letters, 1994, 1-4
1993Bela Volgyi, Tamas Farkas, Jozsef Toldi: Compensation of a sensory deficit inflicted upon newborn and adult animals. A behavioural study. In: Neuroreport, 1993, 827-829