Two-photon calcium imaging of neuronal activity

C Grienberger, A Giovannucci, W Zeiger… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
In vivo two-photon calcium imaging (2PCI) is a technique used for recording neuronal
activity in the intact brain. It is based on the principle that, when neurons fire action …

Understanding the retinal basis of vision across species

T Baden, T Euler, P Berens - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
The vertebrate retina first evolved some 500 million years ago in ancestral marine
chordates. Since then, the eyes of different species have been tuned to best support their …

The types of retinal ganglion cells: current status and implications for neuronal classification

JR Sanes, RH Masland - Annual review of neuroscience, 2015 - annualreviews.org
In the retina, photoreceptors pass visual information to interneurons, which process it and
pass it to retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). Axons of RGCs then travel through the optic nerve …

Thalamic control of sensory selection in divided attention

RD Wimmer, LI Schmitt, TJ Davidson, M Nakajima… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
How the brain selects appropriate sensory inputs and suppresses distractors is unknown.
Given the well-established role of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in executive function, its …

Processing of visually evoked innate fear by a non-canonical thalamic pathway

P Wei, N Liu, Z Zhang, X Liu, Y Tang, X He… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The ability of animals to respond to life-threatening stimuli is essential for survival. Although
vision provides one of the major sensory inputs for detecting threats across animal species …

Removal of perineuronal nets unlocks juvenile plasticity through network mechanisms of decreased inhibition and increased gamma activity

KK Lensjø, ME Lepperød, G Dick… - Journal of …, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
Perineuronal nets (PNNs) are extracellular matrix structures mainly enwrapping
parvalbumin-expressing inhibitory neurons. The assembly of PNNs coincides with the end of …

Vision guides selection of freeze or flight defense strategies in mice

G De Franceschi, T Vivattanasarn, AB Saleem… - Current biology, 2016 - cell.com
In prey species such as mice, avoidance of predators is key to survival and drives instinctual
behaviors like freeze or flight [1, 2]. Sensory signals guide the selection of appropriate …

A three-photon head-mounted microscope for imaging all layers of visual cortex in freely moving mice

A Klioutchnikov, DJ Wallace, J Sawinski, KM Voit… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Advances in head-mounted microscopes have enabled imaging of neuronal activity using
genetic tools in freely moving mice but these microscopes are restricted to recording in …

Topography and areal organization of mouse visual cortex

ME Garrett, I Nauhaus, JH Marshel… - Journal of …, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
To guide future experiments aimed at understanding the mouse visual system, it is essential
that we have a solid handle on the global topography of visual cortical areas. Ideally, the …

Integration of visual motion and locomotion in mouse visual cortex

AB Saleem, A Ayaz, KJ Jeffery, KD Harris… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Successful navigation through the world requires accurate estimation of one's own speed.
To derive this estimate, animals integrate visual speed gauged from optic flow and run …