Progress on cutting-edge infrared-terahertz biophysics

P Wang, J Lou, G Fang, C Chang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Infrared-terahertz (IRT) resonant absorption complies with unique biomolecule fingerprints,
including neurotransmitters, proteins, ribonucleic acid, and deoxyribonucleic acid, rendering …

Stimulus-selective response plasticity in primary visual cortex: progress and puzzles

DP Montgomery, DJ Hayden, FA Chaloner… - Frontiers in neural …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Stimulus-selective response plasticity (SRP) is a robust and lasting modification of primary
visual cortex (V1) that occurs in response to exposure to novel visual stimuli. It is readily …

How to wake up the electric synapse coupling between neurons?

P Zhou, X Zhang, J Ma - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2022 - Springer
Both electric and chemical synapses play an important role in receiving and propagating
signals, and thus an isolated neuron and neurons in networks can be activated to trigger …

Non-invasive, opsin-free mid-infrared modulation activates cortical neurons and accelerates associative learning

J Zhang, Y He, S Liang, X Liao, T Li, Z Qiao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Neurostimulant drugs or magnetic/electrical stimulation techniques can overcome attention
deficits, but these drugs or techniques are weakly beneficial in boosting the learning …

Fear learning induces α7-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor-mediated astrocytic responsiveness that is required for memory persistence

K Zhang, R Förster, W He, X Liao, J Li, C Yang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Memory persistence is a fundamental cognitive process for guiding behaviors and is
considered to rely mostly on neuronal and synaptic plasticity. Whether and how astrocytes …

Trainable bilingual synaptic functions in bio-enabled synaptic transistors

MJ Han, VV Tsukruk - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
The signal transmission of the nervous system is regulated by neurotransmitters. Depending
on the type of neurotransmitter released by presynaptic neurons, neuron cells can either be …

Psilocybin reduces low frequency oscillatory power and neuronal phase-locking in the anterior cingulate cortex of awake rodents

CT Golden, P Chadderton - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Psilocybin is a hallucinogenic compound that is showing promise in the ability to treat
neurological conditions such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. There have …

Neuronal responses to omitted tones in the auditory brain: A neuronal correlate for predictive coding

AB Lao-Rodríguez, K Przewrocki… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Prediction provides key advantages for survival, and cognitive studies have demonstrated
that the brain computes multilevel predictions. Evidence for predictions remains elusive at …

Robust transcoding sensory information with neural spikes

Q Xu, J Shen, X Ran, H Tang, G Pan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Neural coding, including encoding and decoding, is one of the key problems in
neuroscience for understanding how the brain uses neural signals to relate sensory …

Neurotransmitter‐induced excitatory and inhibitory functions in artificial synapses

D Kim, JS Lee - Advanced Functional Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Neurotransmitters control signal transmission in the nervous system. The signals of neuron
cells can be excited or inhibited based on the types of neurotransmitters that are released …