Spine dynamics in the brain, mental disorders and artificial neural networks

H Kasai, NE Ziv, H Okazaki, S Yagishita… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
In the brain, most synapses are formed on minute protrusions known as dendritic spines.
Unlike their artificial intelligence counterparts, spines are not merely tuneable memory …

Developmental mechanisms underlying the evolution of human cortical circuits

P Vanderhaeghen, F Polleux - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
The brain of modern humans has evolved remarkable computational abilities that enable
higher cognitive functions. These capacities are tightly linked to an increase in the size and …

[HTML][HTML] Dendritic spine plasticity: function and mechanisms

K Runge, C Cardoso, A De Chevigny - Frontiers in synaptic …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Dendritic spines are small protrusions studding neuronal dendrites, first described in 1888
by Ramón y Cajal using his famous Golgi stainings. Around 50 years later the advance of …

A large-scale nanoscopy and biochemistry analysis of postsynaptic dendritic spines

MS Helm, TM Dankovich, S Mandad, B Rammner… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Dendritic spines, the postsynaptic compartments of excitatory neurotransmission, have
different shapes classified from 'stubby'to 'mushroom-like'. Whereas mushroom spines are …

Virtual histology of cortical thickness and shared neurobiology in 6 psychiatric disorders

Y Patel, N Parker, J Shin, D Howard, L French… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Large-scale neuroimaging studies have revealed group differences in cortical
thickness across many psychiatric disorders. The underlying neurobiology behind these …

Neuronal morphology and network properties modulate signal propagation in multi-layer feedforward network

T Li, Y Wu, L Yang, Z Fu, Y Jia - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2023 - Elsevier
The propagation and detection of weak signals play a vital role in the central nervous
system's information processing. In this paper, a biophysical two-compartment model is …

Cellular mechanisms and treatments for chemobrain: insight from aging and neurodegenerative diseases

LD Nguyen, BE Ehrlich - EMBO molecular medicine, 2020 - embopress.org
Chemotherapy is a life‐saving treatment for cancer patients, but also causes long‐term
cognitive impairment, or “chemobrain”, in survivors. However, several challenges, including …

Psychedelics and neural plasticity: therapeutic implications

SF Grieco, E Castrén, GM Knudsen… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Psychedelic drugs have reemerged as tools to treat several brain disorders. Cultural
attitudes toward them are changing, and scientists are once again investigating the neural …

[HTML][HTML] Regulation of actin dynamics during structural plasticity of dendritic spines: Signaling messengers and actin-binding proteins

J Borovac, M Bosch, K Okamoto - Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, 2018 - Elsevier
Activity-dependent plasticity of synaptic structure and function plays an essential role in
neuronal development and in cognitive functions including learning and memory. The …

Toward recovery in schizophrenia: Current concepts, findings, and future research directions

T Onitsuka, Y Hirano, T Nakazawa… - Psychiatry and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Schizophrenia was initially defined as “dementia praecox” by E. Kraepelin, which implies
progressive deterioration. However, recent studies have revealed that early effective …