Mechanisms of synaptic transmission dysregulation in the prefrontal cortex: pathophysiological implications

Z Yan, B Rein - Molecular psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) serves as the chief executive officer of the brain, controlling the
highest level cognitive and emotional processes. Its local circuits among glutamatergic …

Circuit organization of the rodent medial prefrontal cortex

PG Anastasiades, AG Carter - Trends in neurosciences, 2021 - cell.com
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) orchestrates higher brain function and becomes disrupted in
many mental health disorders. The rodent medial PFC (mPFC) possesses an enormous …

Single-neuron projectome of mouse prefrontal cortex

L Gao, S Liu, L Gou, Y Hu, Y Liu, L Deng, D Ma… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Prefrontal cortex (PFC) is the cognitive center that integrates and regulates global brain
activity. However, the whole-brain organization of PFC axon projections remains poorly …

Striatal circuits for reward learning and decision-making

J Cox, IB Witten - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
The striatum is essential for learning which actions lead to reward and for implementing
those actions. Decades of experimental and theoretical work have led to several influential …

Cortical ensembles orchestrate social competition through hypothalamic outputs

N Padilla-Coreano, K Batra, M Patarino, Z Chen… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Most social species self-organize into dominance hierarchies,, which decreases aggression
and conserves energy,, but it is not clear how individuals know their social rank. We have …

Signalling pathways in autism spectrum disorder: mechanisms and therapeutic implications

CC Jiang, LS Lin, S Long, XY Ke, K Fukunaga… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a prevalent and complex neurodevelopmental disorder
which has strong genetic basis. Despite the rapidly rising incidence of autism, little is known …

Prefrontal–amygdala circuits in social decision-making

P Gangopadhyay, M Chawla, O Dal Monte… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
An increasing amount of research effort is being directed toward investigating the neural
bases of social cognition from a systems neuroscience perspective. Evidence from multiple …

Efficient and accurate extraction of in vivo calcium signals from microendoscopic video data

P Zhou, SL Resendez, J Rodriguez-Romaguera… - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
In vivo calcium imaging through microendoscopic lenses enables imaging of previously
inaccessible neuronal populations deep within the brains of freely moving animals …

[HTML][HTML] Correlated neural activity and encoding of behavior across brains of socially interacting animals

L Kingsbury, S Huang, J Wang, K Gu, P Golshani… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Social interactions involve complex decision-making tasks that are shaped by dynamic,
mutual feedback between participants. An open question is whether and how emergent …

Social circuits and their dysfunction in autism spectrum disorder

M Sato, N Nakai, S Fujima, KY Choe, T Takumi - Molecular Psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Social behaviors, how individuals act cooperatively and competitively with conspecifics, are
widely seen across species. Rodents display various social behaviors, and many different …