Sleep spindles: mechanisms and functions

LMJ Fernandez, A Lüthi - Physiological reviews, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Sleep spindles are burstlike signals in the electroencephalogram (EEG) of the sleeping
mammalian brain and electrical surface correlates of neuronal oscillations in thalamus. As …

Sodium channelopathies of skeletal muscle and brain

M Mantegazza, S Cestèle… - Physiological …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
Voltage-gated sodium channels initiate action potentials in nerve, skeletal muscle, and other
electrically excitable cells. Mutations in them cause a wide range of diseases. These …

Complement factor C1q mediates sleep spindle loss and epileptic spikes after mild brain injury

SS Holden, FC Grandi, O Aboubakr, B Higashikubo… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of disability in children and
adults. TBI affects 69 million people worldwide yearly and can lead to cognitive dysfunction …

Generation of ventralized human thalamic organoids with thalamic reticular nucleus

FR Kiral, B Cakir, Y Tanaka, J Kim, WS Yang, F Wehbe… - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Human brain organoids provide unique platforms for modeling several aspects of human
brain development and pathology. However, current brain organoid systems mostly lack the …

Microglial pattern recognition via IL-33 promotes synaptic refinement in developing corticothalamic circuits in mice

RT Han, ID Vainchtein, JCM Schlachetzki… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - rupress.org
Microglia are critical regulators of brain development that engulf synaptic proteins during
postnatal synapse remodeling. However, the mechanisms through which microglia sense …

Enhancing GAT-3 in thalamic astrocytes promotes resilience to brain injury in rodents

FS Cho, ID Vainchtein, Y Voskobiynyk… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
Inflammatory processes induced by brain injury are important for recovery; however, when
uncontrolled, inflammation can be deleterious, likely explaining why most anti-inflammatory …

An epilepsy-associated KCNT1 mutation enhances excitability of human iPSC-derived neurons by increasing slack KNa currents

IH Quraishi, S Stern, KP Mangan, Y Zhang… - Journal of …, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
Mutations in the KCNT1 (Slack, KNa1. 1) sodium-activated potassium channel produce
severe epileptic encephalopathies. Expression in heterologous systems has shown that the …

SCN1A/NaV1.1 channelopathies: Mechanisms in expression systems, animal models, and human iPSC models

M Mantegazza, V Broccoli - Epilepsia, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Pathogenic SCN 1A/NaV1. 1 mutations cause well‐defined epilepsies, including
genetic epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS+) and the severe epileptic encephalopathy …

[HTML][HTML] Thalamocortical circuits in generalized epilepsy: Pathophysiologic mechanisms and therapeutic targets

BE Lindquist, C Timbie, Y Voskobiynyk, JT Paz - Neurobiology of disease, 2023 - Elsevier
Generalized epilepsy affects 24 million people globally; at least 25% of cases remain
medically refractory. The thalamus, with widespread connections throughout the brain, plays …

Analysing an allelic series of rare missense variants of CACNA1I in a Swedish schizophrenia cohort

D Baez-Nieto, A Allen, S Akers-Campbell, L Yang… - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
CACNA1I is implicated in the susceptibility to schizophrenia by large-scale genetic
association studies of single nucleotide polymorphisms. However, the channelopathy of …