Neuromodulation of prefrontal cortex cognitive function in primates: the powerful roles of monoamines and acetylcholine

R Cools, AFT Arnsten - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022 - nature.com
The primate prefrontal cortex (PFC) subserves our highest order cognitive operations, and
yet is tremendously dependent on a precise neurochemical environment for proper …

Theory of the multiregional neocortex: large-scale neural dynamics and distributed cognition

XJ Wang - Annual review of neuroscience, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The neocortex is a complex neurobiological system with many interacting regions. How
these regions work together to subserve flexible behavior and cognition has become …

Single-cell spatial transcriptome reveals cell-type organization in the macaque cortex

A Chen, Y Sun, Y Lei, C Li, S Liao, J Meng, Y Bai, Z Liu… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Elucidating the cellular organization of the cerebral cortex is critical for understanding brain
structure and function. Using large-scale single-nucleus RNA sequencing and spatial …

Association of OPRM1 functional coding variant with opioid use disorder: a genome-wide association study

H Zhou, CT Rentsch, Z Cheng, RL Kember… - JAMA …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance With the current opioid crisis, it is important to improve understanding of the
biological mechanisms of opioid use disorder (OUD). Objectives To detect genetic risk …

A diversity of intrinsic timescales underlie neural computations

SE Cavanagh, LT Hunt, SW Kennerley - Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Neural processing occurs across a range of temporal scales. To facilitate this, the brain uses
fast-changing representations reflecting momentary sensory input alongside more …

Non-linear dimensionality reduction on extracellular waveforms reveals cell type diversity in premotor cortex

EK Lee, H Balasubramanian, A Tsolias, SU Anakwe… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Cortical circuits are thought to contain a large number of cell types that coordinate to
produce behavior. Current in vivo methods rely on clustering of specified features of …

The genie in the bottle-magnified calcium signaling in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

AFT Arnsten, D Datta, M Wang - Molecular Psychiatry, 2021 - nature.com
Neurons in the association cortices are particularly vulnerable in cognitive disorders such as
schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease, while those in primary visual cortex remain …

Diversity amongst human cortical pyramidal neurons revealed via their sag currents and frequency preferences

H Moradi Chameh, S Rich, L Wang, FD Chen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In the human neocortex coherent interlaminar theta oscillations are driven by deep cortical
layers, suggesting neurons in these layers exhibit distinct electrophysiological properties. To …

Ketamine disrupts naturalistic coding of working memory in primate lateral prefrontal cortex networks

M Roussy, R Luna, L Duong, B Corrigan, RA Gulli… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic drug, which has more recently emerged as a rapid-
acting antidepressant. When acutely administered at subanesthetic doses, ketamine causes …

Visual attention in the prefrontal cortex

J Martinez-Trujillo - Annual Review of Vision Science, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Voluntary attention selects behaviorally relevant signals for further processing while filtering
out distracter signals. Neural correlates of voluntary visual attention have been reported …