Professor John Morley

Professor John Morley

Deputy Dean, School of Medicine,
Dean's Unit - School of Medicine

Chair of Anatomy & Cell Biology,
School of Medicine

Biography

Qualifications

  • PhD University of Melbourne
  • MSc University of Melbourne
  • BABSc La Trobe University

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Dean's Unit - School of Medicine
  • School of Medicine

Contact

Email: J.Morley@westernsydney.edu.au
Phone: (02) 4620 3748
Mobile: 0420303812
Location: 30.2.30
Campbelltown

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Publications

Chapters in Books

  • Buskila, Y., Bellot-Saez, A., Kekesi, O., Cameron, M. and Morley, J. (2020), 'Extending the life span of acute neuronal tissue for imaging and electrophysiological studies', Basic Neurobiology Techniques, Humana Press 9781493999439.
  • Anderson, J., Head, S. and Morley, J. (2012), 'Duchenne muscular dystrophy and brain function', Muscular Dystrophy, InTech 9789535106036.
  • Morley, J., Chowdhury, V. and Coroneo, M. (2007), 'Visual cortex and extraocular retinal stimulation with surface electrode arrays', Visual Prosthesis and Ophthalmic Devices, Humana Press 9781934115169.

Journal Articles

  • Muralidharan, M., Guo, T., Tsai, D., Lee, J., Fried, S., Dokos, S., Morley, J., Lovell, N. and Shivdasani, M. (2024), 'Neural activity of retinal ganglion cells under continuous, dynamically-modulated high frequency electrical stimulation', Journal of Neural Engineering, vol 21, no 1 .
  • Redwan, A., Kiriaev, L., Kueh, S., Morley, J., Houweling, P., Perry, B. and Head, S. (2023), 'Six weeks of N-acetylcysteine antioxidant in drinking water decreases pathological fiber branching in MDX mouse dystrophic fast-twitch skeletal muscle', Frontiers in Physiology, vol 14 .
  • Stevenson, R., Samokhina, E., Mangat, A., Rossetti, I., Purushotham, S., Malladi, C., Morley, J. and Buskila, Y. (2023), 'Astrocytic K+ clearance during disease progression in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis', Glia, vol 71, no 10 , pp 2456 - 2472.
  • Chan, S., Kueh, S., Morley, J. and Head, S. (2022), 'Sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium handling in unbranched, immediately post-necrotic fast-twitch mdx fibres is similar to wild-type littermates', Experimental Physiology, vol 107, no 6 , pp 601 - 614.
  • Chalmers, T., Hickey, B., Newton, P., Lin, C., Sibbritt, D., McLachlan, C., Clifton-Bligh, R., Morley, J. and Lal, S. (2022), 'Associations between sleep quality and heart rate variability : implications for a biological model of stress detection using wearable technology', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol 19, no 9 .
  • Chalmers, T., Hickey, B., Newton, P., Lin, C., Sibbritt, D., McLachlan, C., Clifton-Bligh, R., Morley, J. and Lal, S. (2022), 'Stress watch : the use of heart rate and heart rate variability to detect stress : a pilot study using smart watch wearables', Sensors, vol 22, no 1 .
  • Bellot-Saez, A., Stevenson, R., Kekesi, O., Samokhina, E., Ben-Abu, Y., Morley, J. and Buskila, Y. (2021), 'Neuromodulation of astrocytic K+ clearance', International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol 22, no 5 .
  • Kiriaev, L., Perry, B., Mahns, D., Shortland, P., Redwan, A., Morley, J. and Head, S. (2021), 'Minocycline treatment reduces mass and force output from fast-twitch mouse muscles and inhibits myosin production in C2C12 myotubes', Frontiers in Physiology, vol 12 .
  • Habiba, U., Descallar, J., Kreilaus, F., Adhikari, U., Kumar, S., Morley, J., Bui, B., Koronyo-Hamaoui, M. and Tayebi, M. (2021), 'Detection of retinal and blood A? oligomers with nanobodies', Alzheimer's and Dementia, vol 13, no 1 .
  • Kawashima, Y., Li, R., Chen, S., Vickery, R., Morley, J. and Tsuchiya, N. (2021), 'Steady state evoked potential (SSEP) responses in the primary and secondary somatosensory cortices of anesthetized cats : nonlinearity characterized by harmonic and intermodulation frequencies', PLoS One, vol 16, no 3 .
  • Hickey, B., Chalmers, T., Newton, P., Lin, C., Sibbritt, D., McLachlan, C., Clifton-Bligh, R., Morley, J. and Lal, S. (2021), 'Smart devices and wearable technologies to detect and monitor mental health conditions and stress : a systematic review', Sensors, vol 21, no 10 .
  • Kiriaev, L., Kueh, S., Morley, J., Houweling, P., Chan, S., North, K. and Head, S. (2021), 'Dystrophin-negative slow-twitch soleus muscles are not susceptible to eccentric contraction induced injury over the lifespan of the mdx mouse', American Journal of Physiology: Cell Physiology, vol 321, no 4 , pp 704 - 720.
  • Pather, N., Blyth, P., Champan, J., Dayal, M., Flack, N., Fogg, Q., Green, R., Hulme, A., Johnson, I., Meyer, A., Morley, J., Shortland, P., Strkalj, G., Strkalj, M., Valter, K., Webb, A., Woodley, S. and Lazarus, M. (2020), 'Forced disruption of anatomy education in Australia and New Zealand : an acute response to the Covid-19 pandemic', Anatomical Sciences Education, vol 13, no 3 , pp 284 - 300.
  • Habiba, U., Merlin, S., Lim, J., Wong, V., Nguyen, C., Morley, J., Bui, B. and Tayebi, M. (2020), 'Age-specific retinal and cerebral immunodetection of amyloid-? plaques and oligomers in a rodent model of Alzheimer's disease', Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, vol 76, no 3 , pp 1135 - 1150.
  • Cameron, M., Morley, J. and Perez-Fernandez, V. (2020), 'Seeing the light : different photoreceptor classes work together to drive adaptation in the mammalian retina', Current Opinion in Physiology, vol 16 , pp 43 - 49.
  • Stevenson, R., Samokhina, E., Rosetti, I., Morley, J. and Buskila, Y. (2020), 'Neuromodulation of glial function during neurodegeneration', Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, vol 14 .
  • Muralidharan, M., Guo, T., Shivdasani, M., Tsai, D., Fried, S., Li, L., Dokos, S., Morley, J. and Lovell, N. (2020), 'Neural activity of functionally different retinal ganglion cells can be robustly modulated by high-rate electrical pulse trains', Journal of Neural Engineering, vol 17, no 4 .
  • Sliow, A., Ma, Z., Gargiulo, G., Mahns, D., Mawad, D., Breen, P., Stoodley, M., Houang, J., Kuchel, R., Tettamanzi, G., Tilley, R., Frost, S., Morley, J., Longo, L. and Lauto, A. (2019), 'Stimulation and repair of peripheral nerves using bioadhesive graft-antenna', Advanced Science, vol 6, no 11 .
  • Gollo, L., Karim, M., Harris, J., Morley, J. and Breakspear, M. (2019), 'Hierarchical and nonlinear dynamics in prefrontal cortex regulate the precision of perceptual beliefs', Frontiers in Neural Circuits, vol 13 .
  • Guo, T., Tsai, D., Yang, C., Abed, A., Twyford, P., Fried, S., Morley, J., Suaning, G., Dokos, S. and Lovell, N. (2019), 'Mediating retinal ganglion cell spike rates using high-frequency electrical stimulation', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 13 .
  • Loutit, A., Shivdasani, M., Maddess, T., Redmond, S., Morley, J., Stuart, G., Birznieks, I., Vickery, R. and Potas, J. (2019), 'Peripheral nerve activation evokes machine-learnable signals in the dorsal column nuclei', Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, vol 13 .
  • Perez-Fernandez, V., Milosavljevic, N., Allen, A., Vessey, K., Jobling, A., Fletcher, E., Breen, P., Morley, J. and Cameron, M. (2019), 'Rod photoreceptor activation alone defines the release of dopamine in the retina', Current Biology, vol 29, no 5 , pp 763 - 774.
  • Kekesi, O., Liang, H., Muench, G., Morley, J., Gyengesi, E. and Buskila, Y. (2019), 'The differential impact of acute microglia activation on the excitability of cholinergic neurons in the mouse medial septum', Brain Structure and Function, vol 224, no 7 , pp 2297 - 2309.
  • Buskila, Y., Bellot-Saez, A. and Morley, J. (2019), 'Generating brain waves, the power of astrocytes', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 13 .
  • Barriga-Rivera, A., Tatarinoff, V., Lovell, N., Morley, J. and Suaning, G. (2018), 'Long-term anesthetic protocol in rats : feasibility in electrophysiology studies in visual prosthesis', Veterinary Ophthalmology, vol 21, no 3 , pp 290 - 297.
  • Staples, N., Goding, J., Gilmour, A., Aristovich, K., Byrnes-Preston, P., Holder, D., Morley, J., Lovell, N., Chew, D. and Green, R. (2018), 'Conductive hydrogel electrodes for delivery of long-term high frequency pulses', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 11 .
  • Kiriaev, L., Kueh, S., Morley, J., North, K., Houweling, P. and Head, S. (2018), 'Branched fibers from old fast-twitch dystrophic muscles are the sites of terminal damage in muscular dystrophy', American Journal of Physiology: Cell Physiology, vol 314, no 6 , pp 662 - 674.
  • Guo, T., Yang, C., Tsai, D., Muralidharan, M., Suaning, G., Morley, J., Dokos, S. and Lovell, N. (2018), 'Closed-loop efficient searching of optimal electrical stimulation parameters for preferential excitation of retinal ganglion cells', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 12, no 168 .
  • Yang, C., Tsai, D., Guo, T., Dokos, S., Suaning, G., Morley, J. and Lovell, N. (2018), 'Differential electrical responses in retinal ganglion cell subtypes : effects of synaptic blockade and stimulating electrode location', Journal of Neural Engineering, vol 15, no 4 .
  • Bellot-Saez, A., Cohen, G., Schaik, A., Ooi, L., Morley, J. and Buskila, Y. (2018), 'Astrocytic modulation of cortical oscillations', Scientific Reports, vol 8 .
  • Barriga-Rivera, A., Guo, T., Yang, C., Abed, A., Dokos, S., Lovell, N., Morley, J. and Suaning, G. (2017), 'High-amplitude electrical stimulation can reduce elicited neuronal activity in visual prosthesis', Scientific Reports, vol 7 .
  • Cameron, M., Kekesi, O., Morley, J., Bellot Saez, A., Kueh, S., Breen, P., van Schaik, A., Tapson, J. and Buskila, Y. (2017), 'Prolonged incubation of acute neuronal tissue for electrophysiology and calcium-imaging', Journal of Visualized Experiments, vol 120 .
  • Loutit, A., Maddess, T., Redmond, S., Morley, J., Stuart, G. and Potas, J. (2017), 'Characterisation and functional mapping of surface potentials in the rat dorsal column nuclei', Journal of Physiology, vol 595, no 13 , pp 4507 - 4524.
  • Bellot Saez, A., Kekesi, O., Morley, J. and Buskila, Y. (2017), 'Astrocytic modulation of neuronal excitability through K+ spatial buffering', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral reviews, vol 77 , pp 87 - 97.
  • Cameron, M., Abed, A., Buskila, Y., Dokos, S., Lovell, N. and Morley, J. (2017), 'Differential effect of brief electrical stimulation on voltage-gated potassium channels', Journal of Neurophysiology, vol 117, no 5 , pp 2014 - 2024.
  • Perez Fernandez, V., Harman, D., Morley, J. and Cameron, M. (2017), 'Optimized method to quantify dopamine turnover in the mammalian retina', Analytical Chemistry, vol 89, no 22 , pp 12276 - 12283.
  • Solomon, S., Morley, J. and Solomon, S. (2017), 'Spectral signatures of feedforward and recurrent circuitry in monkey area MT', Cerebral Cortex, vol 27, no 5 , pp 2793 - 2808.
  • Tsai, D., Morley, J., Suaning, G. and Lovell, N. (2017), 'Survey of electrically evoked responses in the retina-stimulus preferences and oscillation among neurons', Scientific Reports, vol 7, no 1 .
  • Matteucci, P., Barriga-Rivera, A., Eiber, C., Lovell, N., Morley, J. and Suaning, G. (2016), 'The effect of electric cross-talk in retinal neurostimulation', Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, vol 57, no 3 , pp 1031 - 1037.
  • Shaikh, S., Shortland, P., Lauto, A., Barton, M., Morley, J. and Mahns, D. (2016), 'Sensory perturbations using suture and sutureless repair of transected median nerve in rats', Somatosensory and Motor Research, vol 33, no 1 , pp 20 - 28.
  • Guo, T., Tsai, D., Morley, J., Suaning, G., Kameneva, T., Lovell, N. and Dokos, S. (2016), 'Electrical activity of ON and OFF retinal ganglion cells : a modelling study', Journal of Neural Engineering, vol 13, no 2 .
  • Cameron, M., Kekesi, O., Morley, J., Tapson, J., Breen, P., van Schaik, A. and Buskila, Y. (2016), 'Calcium imaging of AM dyes following prolonged incubation in acute neuronal tissue', PLoS One, vol 11, no 5 , pp 1 - 13.
  • Barriga-Rivera, A., Eiber, C., Matteucci, P., Chen, S., Morley, J., Lovell, N. and Suaning, G. (2016), 'A 4+1 architecture for in vivo electrophysiology visual prosthesis', Journal of Accessibility and Design for All, vol 6, no 2 , pp 81 - 101.
  • Barton, M., Morley, J., Stoodley, M., Shaikh, S., Mahns, D. and Lauto, A. (2015), 'Long term recovery of median nerve repair using laser-activated chitosan adhesive films', Journal of Biophotonics, .
  • Mawad, D., Warren, C., Barton, M., Mahns, D., Morley, J., Pham, B., Pham, N., Kueh, S. and Lauto, A. (2015), 'Lysozyme depolymerization of photo-activated chitosan adhesive films', Carbohydrate Polymers, vol 121 , pp 56 - 63.
  • Solomon, S., Chen, S., Morley, J. and Solomon, S. (2015), 'Local and global correlations between neurons in the middle temporal area of primate visual cortex', Cerebral Cortex, .
  • Abramian, M., Lovell, N., Morley, J., Suaning, G. and Dokos, S. (2015), 'Activation and inhibition of retinal ganglion cells in response to epiretinal electrical stimulation : a computational modelling study', Journal of Neural Engineering, vol 12, no 1 .
  • Chen, S., Morley, J. and Solomon, S. (2015), 'Spatial precision of population activity in primate area MT', Journal of Neurophysiology, vol 114, no 2 , pp 869 - 878.
  • Buskila, Y., Breen, P., Tapson, J., Van Schaik, A., Barton, M. and Morley, J. (2014), 'Extending the viability of acute brain slices', Scientific Reports, vol 4 .
  • Abramian, M., Lovell, N., Habib, A., Morley, J., Suaning, G. and Dokos, S. (2014), 'Quasi-monopolar electrical stimulation of the retina : a computational modelling study', Journal of Neural Engineering, vol 11, no 2 .
  • Carter, A., Chen, S., Lovell, N., Vickery, R. and Morley, J. (2014), 'Convergence across tactile afferent types in primary and secondary somatosensory cortices', PLoS One, vol 9, no 9 .
  • Barton, M., Morley, J., Stoodley, M., Lauto, A. and Mahns, D. (2014), 'Nerve repair : toward a sutureless approach', Neurosurgical Review, vol 37, no 4 , pp 585 - 595.
  • Barton, M., Morley, J., Mahns, D., Mawad, D., Wuhrer, R., Fania, D., Frost, S., Loebbe, C. and Lauto, A. (2014), 'Tissue repair strength using chitosan adhesives with different physical-chemical characteristics', Journal of Biophotonics, vol 7, no 11-12 , pp 948 - 955.
  • Guo, T., Tsai, D., Bai, S., Morley, J., Suaning, G., Lovell, N. and Dokos, S. (2014), 'Understanding the retina : a review of computational models of the retina from the single cell to the network level', Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, vol 42, no 5 , pp 419 - 436.
  • Cameron, M., Suaning, G., Lovell, N. and Morley, J. (2013), 'Electrical stimulation of inner retinal neurons in wild-type and retinally degenerate (rd/rd) mice', PLoS One, vol 8, no 7 .
  • Habib, A., Cameron, M., Suaning, G., Lovell, N. and Morley, J. (2013), 'Spatially restricted electrical activation of retinal ganglion cells in the rabbit retina by hexapolar electrode return configuration', Journal of Neural Engineering, vol 10, no 3 , pp 1 - 8.
  • John, S., Shivdasani, M., Williams, C., Morley, J., Shepherd, R., Rathbone, G. and Fallon, J. (2013), 'Suprachoroidal electrical stimulation : effects of stimulus pulse parameters on visual cortical responses', Journal of Neural Engineering, vol 10, no 5 , pp 1 - 12.
  • Buskila, Y., Morley, J., Tapson, J. and Van Schaik, A. (2013), 'The adaptation of spike backpropagation delays in cortical neurons', Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, vol 7 , pp 1 - 9.
  • Matteucci, P., Chen, S., Tsai, D., Dodds, C., Dokos, S., Morley, J., Lovell, N. and Suaning, G. (2013), 'Current steering in retinal stimulation via a quasimonopolar stimulation paradigm', Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, vol 54, no 6 , pp 4307 - 4320.
  • Barton, M., Morley, J., Stoodley, M., Ng, K., Piller, S., Duong, H., Mawad, D., Mahns, D. and Lauto, A. (2013), 'Laser-activated adhesive films for sutureless median nerve anastomosis', Journal of Biophotonics, vol 6, no 11-12 , pp 938 - 949.
  • Karim, M., Harris, J., Morley, J. and Breakspear, M. (2012), 'Prior and present evidence : how prior experience interacts with present information in a perceptual decision making task', PLoS One, vol 7, no 5 .
  • Barton, M., Piller, S., Mahns, D., Morley, J., Mawad, D., Longo, L. and Lauto, A. (2012), 'In vitro cell compatibility study of rose bengal-chitosan adhesives', Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, vol 44, no 9 , pp 762 - 768.
  • Browne, C., Morley, J. and Parsons, C. (2012), 'Tracking the expression of excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission-related proteins and neuroplasticity markers after noise induced hearing loss', PLoS One, vol 7, no 3 .
  • Lauto, A., Stoodley, M., Barton, M., Morley, J., Mahns, D., Longo, L. and Mawad, D. (2012), 'Fabrication and application of rose bengal-chitosan films in laser tissue repair', Journal of Visualized Experiments, , no 68 .
  • Tsai, D., Chen, S., Protti, D., Morley, J., Suaning, G. and Lovell, N. (2012), 'Responses of retinal ganglion cells to extracellular electrical stimulation, from single cell to population : model-based analysis', PLoS One, vol 7, no 12 .
  • Shivdasani, M., Fallon, J., Luu, C., Cicione, R., Allen, P., Morley, J. and Williams, C. (2012), 'Visual cortex responses to single- and simultaneous multiple-electrode stimulation of the retina : implications for retinal prostheses', Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, vol 53, no 10 , pp 6291 - 6300.
  • Tsai, D., Morley, J., Suaning, G. and Lovell, N. (2011), 'Frequency-dependent reduction of voltage-gated sodium current modulates retinal ganglion cell response rate to electrical stimulation', Journal of Neural Engineering, vol 8, no 6 .
  • Kueh, S., Dempster, J., Head, S. and Morley, J. (2011), 'Reduced postsynaptic GABAA receptor number and enhanced gaboxadol induced change in holding currents in Purkinje cells of the dystrophin-deficient mdx mouse', Neurobiology of Disease, vol 43, no 3 , pp 558 - 564.
  • Abramian, M., Lovell, N., Morley, J., Suaning, G. and Dokos, S. (2011), 'Activation of retinal ganglion cells following epiretinal electrical stimulation with hexagonally arranged bipolar electrodes', Journal of Neural Engineering, vol 8, no 3 .
  • Anderson, J., Morley, J. and Head, S. (2010), 'Enhanced homosynaptic LTD in cerebellar Purkinje cells of the dystrophic MDX mouse', Muscle and Nerve, vol 41, no 3 , pp 329 - 334.
  • Sims, A., Stait-Gardner, T., Fong, L., Morley, J., Price, W., Hoffman, M., Simmons, A. and Schindhelm, J. (2010), 'Elastic and viscoelastic properties of porcine subdermal fat using MRI and inverse FEA', Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, vol 9, no 6 , pp 703 - 711.
  • Tsai, D., Morley, J., Suaning, G. and Lovell, N. (2009), 'Direct activation and temporal response properties of rabbit rtinal ganglion cells following subretinal stimulation.', J.Neurophysiol., vol 102, no 5 , pp 2982 - 2993.
  • Wong, Y., Chen, S., Seo, J., Morley, J., Lovell, N. and Suaning, G. (2009), 'Focal activation of the feline retina via a suprachoroidal electrode array.', Vision Research, vol 49, no 8 , pp 825 - 833.
  • Chen, S., Suaning, G., Morley, J. and Lovell, N. (2009), 'Simulating prosthetic vision: II. Measuring functional capacity.', Vision Research, vol 49, no 19 , pp 2329 - 2343.
  • Chen, S., Suaning, G., Morley, J. and Lovell, N. (2009), 'Simulating prosthetic vision: I. Visual models of phosphenes.', Vision Research, vol 49, no 12 , pp 1493 - 1506.
  • Chen, S., Suaning, G., Morley, J. and Lovell, N. (2009), 'Rehabilitation regimes based upon psychophysical studies of prosthetic vision', Journal of Neural Engineering, vol 6, no 3 , pp 1 - 13.
  • Tsai, D., Morley, J., Suaning, G. and Lovell, N. (2009), 'A wearable real-time image processor for a vision prosthesis.', Computer Methods & Program Biomedicine, vol 95, no 3 , pp 258 - 269.
  • Yahud, S., Dokos, S., Morley, J. and Lovell, N. (2009), 'Experimental validation of a tactile sensor model for a robotic hand', IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference Proceedings, vol 1, no 1 , pp 2300 - 2303.
  • Siu, T. and Morley, J. (2008), 'Visual cortical potentials of the mouse evoked by electrical stimulation of the retina', Brain Research Bulletin, vol 75, no 1 , pp 115 - 118.
  • Kueh, S., Head, S. and Morley, J. (2008), 'GABAA receptor expression and inhibitory postsynaptic currents in cerebellar Purkinje cells in dystrophin-deficient mdx mice', Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology, vol 35, no 2 , pp 207 - 210.
  • Chowdhury, V., Morley, J. and Coroneo, M. (2008), 'Development of an extraocular retinal prosthesis : evaluation of stimulation parameters in the cat', Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, vol 15, no 8 , pp 900 - 906.
  • Siu, T. and Morley, J. (2008), 'In-vivo evaluation of an episcleral multielectrode array for stimulation of the retina with reduced retinal ganglion cell mass', Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, vol 15, no 5 , pp 552 - 558.
  • Siu, T. and Morley, J. (2008), 'Implantation of episcleral electrodes via anterior orbitotomy for stimulation of the retina with induced photoreceptor degeneration : an in-vivo feasibility study on a conceptual visual prosthesis', Acta Neurochirurgica (European Journal of Neurosurgery), vol 150, no 5 , pp 477 - 485.
  • Sui, T., Morley, J. and Coroneo, M. (2008), 'Toxicology of the retina: advances in understanding the defence mechanisms and pathogenesis of drug- and light-induced retinopathy', Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, vol 36, no 2 , pp 176 - 185.
  • Chelvanayagam, D., Vickery, R., Kirkcaldie, M., Coroneo, M. and Morley, J. (2008), 'Multichannel surface recordings on the visual cortex : implications for a neuroprosthesis', Journal of Neural Engineering, vol 5, no 2 , pp 125 - 132.
  • Siu, T. and Morley, J. (2008), 'Suppression of visual cortical evoked responses following deprivation of pattern vision in adult mice', European Journal of Neuroscience, vol 28, no 3 , pp 484 - 490.
  • Chan, S., Head, S. and Morley, J. (2007), 'Branched fibres in dystrophic mdx muscle are associated with a loss of force following lengthening contractions', American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology, vol 293 , pp 985 - 992.
  • Siu, T. and Morley, J. (2007), 'Influence of callosal transfer on visual cortical evoked response and the implication in the development of a visual prosthesis', Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, vol 245, no 12 , pp 1797 - 1803.
  • Morley, J., Vickery, R., Stuart, M. and Turman, A. (2007), 'Suppression of vibrotactile discrimination by transcranial magnetic stimulation of primary somatosensory cortex', European Journal of Neuroscience, vol 26, no 4 , pp 1007 - 1010.
  • Chowdhury, V., Morley, J. and Coroneo, M. (2005), 'Evaluation of extraocular electrodes for a retinal prosthesis using evoked potentials in cat visual cortex', Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, vol 12, no 5 , pp 574 - 579.
  • Chowdhury, V., Morley, J. and Coroneo, M. (2005), 'Stimulation of the retina with a multielectrode extraocular visual prosthesis', ANZ Journal of Surgery, vol 75, no 8 , pp 697 - 704.
  • Chowdhury, V., Morley, J. and Coroneo, M. (2005), 'Feasibility of extraocular stimulation for a retinal prosthesis', Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology, vol 40, no 5 , pp 563 - 572.
  • Anderson, J., Head, S. and Morley, J. (2004), 'Synaptic plasticity in the dy2J mouse model of laminin alpha2-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy', Brain Research, vol 1042 , pp 23 - 28.
  • Chowdhury, V., Morley, J. and Coroneo, M. (2004), 'Surface stimulation of the brain with a prototype array for a visual cortex prosthesis', Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, vol 11, no 7 , pp 750 - 755.
  • Anderson, J., Head, S. and Morley, J. (2004), 'Long-term depression is reduced in cerebellar Purkinje cells of dystrophin-deficient mdx mice', Brain Research, vol 1019, no 1-2 , pp 289 - 292.
  • Chowdhury, V., Morley, J. and Coroneo, M. (2004), 'An in-vivo paradigm for the evaluation of stimulating electrodes for use with a visual prosthesis', ANZ Journal of Surgery, vol 74, no 5 , pp 372 - 378.
  • Moorhouse, A., Li, S., Vickery, R., Hill, M. and Morley, J. (2004), 'A patch-clamp investigation of membrane currents in a novel mammalian retinal ganglion cell line', Brain Research, vol 1003, no 1-Feb , pp 205 - 208.
  • Anderson, J., Head, S. and Morley, J. (2003), 'Altered inhibitory input to Purkinje cells of dystrophin-deficient mice', Brain Research, vol 982, no 2 , pp 280 - 283.
  • Anderson, J., Head, S., Rae, C. and Morley, J. (2002), 'Brain function in Duchenne muscular dystrophy', Brain, vol 125, no 1 , pp 4 - 13.
  • Vickery, R. and Morley, J. (2002), 'Coding of disparity information in extrastriate cortex of the cat', Experimental Brain Research, vol 145, no 1 , pp 130 - 132.

Conference Papers

  • Muralidharan, M., Guo, T., Shivdasani, M., Tsai, D., Fried, S., Cameron, M., Morley, J., Dokos, S. and Lovell, N. (2020), 'Towards controlling functionally-distinct retinal ganglion cells in degenerate retina', IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference, Virtual.
  • Gilmour, A., Goding, J., Aregueta-Robles, U., Staples, N., Byrnes-Preston, P., Morley, J., Lovell, N., Chew, D. and Green, R. (2018), 'Stimulation of peripheral nerves using conductive hydrogel electrodes', IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.
  • Guo, T., Tsai, D., Muralidharan, M., Li, M., Suaning, G., Morley, J., Dokos, S. and Lovell, N. (2018), 'Computational models and tools for developing sophisticated stimulation strategies for retinal neuroprostheses', IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.
  • Tan, C., Kueh, S., Head, S. and Morley, J. (2018), 'Miniature inhibitory postsynaptic current in cerebellar Purkinje cells of old dystrophic mdx mice', Australian Physiological Society. Meeting, Sydney, N.S.W..
  • Barriga-Rivera, A., Guo, T., Morley, J., Lovell, N. and Suaning, G. (2017), 'Retinal electrostimulation in rats : activation thresholds from superior colliculus and visual cortex recordings', IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference, Jeju Island, South Korea.
  • Guo, T., Barriga-Rivera, A., Suaning, G., Tsai, D., Dokos, S., Morley, J. and Lovell, N. (2017), 'Mimicking natural neural encoding through retinal electrostimulation', International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, Shanghai, China.
  • Barriga-Rivera, A., Morley, J., Lovell, N. and Suaning, G. (2016), 'Cortical responses following simultaneous and sequential retinal neurostimulation with different return configurations', IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference, Orlando, Fla..
  • Yang, C., Woolley, A., Tsai, D., Suaning, G., Morley, J. and Lovell, N. (2015), 'Calcium imaging of retinal ganglion cell dendritic responses to extracellular microelectrode stimulation', International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, Montpellier, France.
  • Guo, T., Lovell, N., Tsai, D., Twyford, P., Fried, S., Morley, J., Suaning, G. and Dokos, S. (2015), 'Optimizing retinal ganglion cell responses to high-frequency electrical stimulation strategies for preferential neuronal excitation', International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering , Montpellier, France.
  • Bai, S., Guo, T., Tsai, D., Morley, J., Suaning, G., Lovell, N. and Dokos, S. (2015), 'Influence of retinal ganglion cell morphology on neuronal response properties : a simulation study', International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, Montpellier, France.
  • Guo, T., Tsai, D., Morley, J., Suaning, G., Lovell, N. and Dokos, S. (2014), 'The unique characteristics of ON and OFF retinal ganglion cells : a modeling study', IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference, Chicago, Ill..
  • Guo, T., Lovell, N., Tsai, D., Twyford, P., Fried, S., Morley, J., Suaning, G. and Dokos, S. (2014), 'Selective activation of ON and OFF retinal ganglion cells to high-frequency electrical stimulation : a computational modeling study', IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference, Chicago, Ill..
  • Eiber, C., Morley, J., Lovell, N. and Suaning, G. (2014), 'A cortical integrate-and-fire neural network model for blind decoding of visual prosthetic stimulation', IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference, Chicago, Ill..
  • Rager, D., Alvares, D., Birznieks, I., Redmond, S., Morley, J., Lovell, N. and Vickery, R. (2013), 'Generating tactile afferent stimulation patterns for slip and touch feedback in neural prosthetics', Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, Osaka, Japan.
  • Guo, T., Tsai, D., Morley, J., Suaning, G., Lovell, N. and Dokos, S. (2013), 'Influence of cell morphology in a computational model of ON and OFF retinal ganglion cells', IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference, Osaka, Japan.
  • Guo, T., Tsai, D., Sovilj, S., Morley, J., Suaning, G., Lovell, N. and Dokos, S. (2013), 'Influence of active dendrites on firing patterns in a retinal ganglion cell model', IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference, Osaka, Japan.
  • Guo, T., Tsai, D., Morley, J., Suaning, G., Lovell, N. and Dokos, S. (2013), 'Cell-specific modeling of retinal ganglion cell electrical activity', IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference, Osaka, Japan.
  • Abramian, M., Lovell, N., Morley, J., Suaning, G. and Dokos, S. (2012), 'Computational model of electrical stimulation of a retinal ganglion cell with hexagonally arranged electrodes', IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference, San Diego, California.
  • Habib, A., Cameron, M., Suaning, G., Lovell, N. and Morley, J. (2012), 'Efficacy of the hexpolar configuration in localizing the activation of retinal ganglion cells under electrical stimulation', IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference, San Diego, California.
  • Browne, C., Ratanapongleka, M., Muench, G., Parsons, C. and Morley, J. (2012), 'Alpha Lipoic Acid and noise induced hearing loss : a prevention and treatment trial', Association for Research in Otolaryngology Annual Midwinter Research Meeting, San Diego, Calif..
  • Tsai, D., Morley, J., Suaning, G. and Lovell, N. (2011), 'Responses of starburst amacrine cells to prosthetic stimulation of the retina', IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference, Boston, USA.
  • Tsai, D., Morley, J., Suaning, G. and Lovell, N. (2011), 'Sodium channel inactivation reduces retinal ganglion cell responsiveness to repetitive prosthetic stimulation', Conference on Neural Engineering, Cancun, Mexico.
  • Parsons, C., Browne, C., Chen, S. and Morley, J. (2011), 'Tracking neuronal changes in the auditory system following noise-induced hearing loss', Association for Research in Otolaryngology. Annual Midwinter Research Meeting, Baltimore, Md..
  • Browne, C., Morley, J. and Parsons, C. (2011), 'Tracking the expression of GABAA receptor subunit a1, Glutamic-Acid Decarboxylase-67, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptor subunit 2A in rat auditory pathway following noise-induced hearing loss', Association for Research in Otolaryngology Annual Midwinter Research Meeting, Baltimore, Md..
  • Lovell, N., Morley, J., Chen, S., Hallum, L. and Suaning, G. (2010), 'Biological-machine systems integration: engineering the neural interface', 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systemsw (DFT), Chicago.
  • Streigltz, T., Huang, W., Chen, S., Morley, J., Lovell, N. and Suaning, G. (2010), 'A transparent electrode array for simultaneous cortical potential recording and intrinsicsignal optical imaging', Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE, Buenos Aires.
  • Abramian, M., Dokos, S., Morley, J. and Lovell, N. (2010), 'Activation of ganglion cell axons following epiretinal electrical stimulation with hexagonal electrodes.', Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE, Buenos Aires.
  • Suaning, G., Kisban, S., Chen, S., Byrnes-Preston, P., Dodds, C., Tsai, D., Matteucci, P., Herwik, S., Morley, J., Lovell, N., Paul, O., Stieglitz, T. and Ruther, P. (2010), 'Discrete cortical responses from multi-site supra-choroidal electrical stimulation in the feline retina. Engineering in Medicine and Biology', Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE, Buenos Aires.
  • Yahud, S., Dokos, S., Morley, J. and Lovell, N. (2010), 'Experimental validation of a Polyvinylidene Fluoride sensing element in a tactile sensor', Engineering in Medicne and Biology Society (EMBC), 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE, Buenos Aires.
  • Tsai, D., Morley, J., Suaning, G. and Lovell, N. (2009), 'Direct activation of retinal ganglion cells with subretinal stimulation', IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference Proceedings, USA.
  • Parsons, C., Calford, M., Browne, C. and Morley, J. (2009), 'Tracking tonotopic changes in the auditory system following noise-induced hearing loss', Society for Neuroscience. Meeting, Chicago, Ill..
  • Browne, C., Morley, J. and Parsons, C. (2009), 'Tracking the expression of GABAA receptor subunit a1 in rat auditory cortex, inferior colliculus and dorsal cochlear nucleus following noise-induced hearing loss', Society for Neuroscience. Meeting, Chicago, Ill..
  • Wong, Y., Chen, S., Kerdraon, Y., Allen, P., Mccombe, M., Morley, J., Lovell, N. and Suaning, G. (2008), 'Efficacy of supra-choroidal, bipolar, electrical stimulation in a vision prosthesis', 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Personalized Healthcare through Technology, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Yahud, S., Dokos, S., Morley, J. and Lovell, N. (2008), 'Finite element analysis of a tactile sensor for a robotic hand', ISSNIP 2008 - Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing , .
  • Wong, Y., Hallum, L., Chen, S., Dommel, N., Cloherty, S., Morley, J., Suaning, G. and Lovell, N. (2007), 'Optical imaging of electrically evoked visual signals in cats: I responses to corneal and intravitreal electrical stimulation', 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Lyon, France.
  • Chen, S., Hallum, L., Wong, T., Dommel, N., Cloherty, S., Morley, J., Suaning, G. and Lovell, N. (2007), 'Optical imaging of electrically evoked visual signals in cats: II. ICA 'harmonic filtering' noise reduction', 29th Annual Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Lyon, France.

Other Publications

  • 2001, 'Extraocular device', Patent

Previous Projects

Title: A novel substrate of pain in humans
Funder:
  • University of Western Sydney
Western Researchers: Saad Nagi and John Morley
Years: 2013-09-09 - 2015-03-09
ID: P00021752
Title: Shaping electric fields to improve excitation of nerves [via UNSW]
Funder:
  • National Health and Medical Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: John Morley
Years: 2014-01-01 - 2016-12-31
ID: P00021870
Title: Fabrication of Graft-Antenna Prototype for Nerve Stimulation
Funder:
  • University of Western Sydney
Western Researchers: Antonio Lauto and John Morley
Years: 2012-11-15 - 2014-06-30
ID: P00021231
Title: Defining the molecular pathways regulated by endogenous BEST1 in Best disease
Funder:
  • The International Retinal Research Foundation, Inc.
Western Researchers: Michael O'Connor, Morven Cameron, John Morley and Jens Coorssen
Years: 2016-01-01 - 2018-08-01
ID: P00023002
Title: Selective activation of retinal networks in response to high frequency electrical stimulation: a computational modelling, in vitro and in vivo study [via UNSW]
Funder:
  • National Health and Medical Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: John Morley
Years: 2015-01-01 - 2019-12-31
ID: P00022549
Title: Peripheral encoding of forces associated with manipulation by tactile afferents in the human finger
Funder:
  • University of Western Sydney
Western Researchers: John Morley and David Mahns
Years: 2007-12-10 - 2008-12-09
ID: P0015935
Title: Optimizing autonomous system control with brain-like hierarchical control systems [via UNSW]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: John Morley and Vaughan Macefield
Years: 2008-05-21 - 2011-05-20
ID: P00016212
Title: Peripheral and central encoding of forces associated with manipulation by tactile afferents in the human finger pad
Funder:
  • University of Western Sydney
Western Researchers: Vaughan Macefield and John Morley
Years: 2007-08-06 - 2011-08-05
ID: P0015752
Title: Clinical trial of a suprachoroidal visual prosthesis for the profoundly vision impaired [via USYD]
Funder:
  • National Health and Medical Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: John Morley
Years: 2017-01-01 - 2020-12-31
ID: P00023565
Title: Bionic Vision Australia [via University of Melbourne]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: John Morley
Years: 2010-08-01 - 2015-12-31
ID: P00017500
Title: Multiphoton microscope for cellular imaging in live animals [via USYD]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (Other Research Grants)
Western Researchers: John Morley
Years: 2009-03-17 - 2010-03-16
ID: P00016196
Title: The functional organisation and signals of motion sensitive neurons in the middle-temporal area of visual cortex [via USYD]
Funder:
  • National Health and Medical Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: John Morley
Years: 2011-01-01 - 2014-10-21
ID: P00020029
Title: ARC Bionic Eye Equipment
Funder:
  • University of Western Sydney
Western Researchers: John Morley
Years: 2011-06-02 - 2014-05-30
ID: P00020354

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