Optogenetics for light control of biological systems

V Emiliani, E Entcheva, R Hedrich… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Optogenetic techniques have been developed to allow control over the activity of selected
cells within a highly heterogeneous tissue, using a combination of genetic engineering and …

Neurodevelopment of the association cortices: Patterns, mechanisms, and implications for psychopathology

VJ Sydnor, B Larsen, DS Bassett, A Alexander-Bloch… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
The human brain undergoes a prolonged period of cortical development that spans multiple
decades. During childhood and adolescence, cortical development progresses from lower …

Glioblastoma remodelling of human neural circuits decreases survival

S Krishna, A Choudhury, MB Keough, K Seo, L Ni… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Gliomas synaptically integrate into neural circuits,. Previous research has demonstrated
bidirectional interactions between neurons and glioma cells, with neuronal activity driving …

Next-generation GRAB sensors for monitoring dopaminergic activity in vivo

F Sun, J Zhou, B Dai, T Qian, J Zeng, X Li, Y Zhuo… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Dopamine (DA) plays a critical role in the brain, and the ability to directly measure
dopaminergic activity is essential for understanding its physiological functions. We therefore …

Electrical and synaptic integration of glioma into neural circuits

HS Venkatesh, W Morishita, AC Geraghty, D Silverbush… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
High-grade gliomas are lethal brain cancers whose progression is robustly regulated by
neuronal activity. Activity-regulated release of growth factors promotes glioma growth, but …

A preoptic neuronal population controls fever and appetite during sickness

JA Osterhout, V Kapoor, SW Eichhorn, E Vaughn… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
During infection, animals exhibit adaptive changes in physiology and behaviour aimed at
increasing survival. Although many causes of infection exist, they trigger similar stereotyped …

Rapid eye movement sleep is initiated by basolateral amygdala dopamine signaling in mice

E Hasegawa, A Miyasaka, K Sakurai, Y Cherasse, Y Li… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The sleep cycle is characterized by alternating non–rapid eye movement (NREM) and rapid
eye movement (REM) sleeps. The mechanisms by which this cycle is generated are …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted activation of hippocampal place cells drives memory-guided spatial behavior

NTM Robinson, LAL Descamps, LE Russell… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The hippocampus is crucial for spatial navigation and episodic memory formation.
Hippocampal place cells exhibit spatially selective activity within an environment and have …

Excitation-inhibition balance as a framework for investigating mechanisms in neuropsychiatric disorders

VS Sohal, JLR Rubenstein - Molecular psychiatry, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract In 2003 Rubenstein and Merzenich hypothesized that some forms of Autism (ASD)
might be caused by a reduction in signal-to-noise in key neural circuits, which could be the …

The emergence and influence of internal states

SW Flavell, N Gogolla, M Lovett-Barron, M Zelikowsky - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Animal behavior is shaped by a variety of" internal states"—partially hidden variables that
profoundly shape perception, cognition, and action. The neural basis of internal states, such …