Translational In Vivo Assays in Behavioral Biology

SL Withey, DA Pizzagalli… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The failure of preclinical research to advance successful candidate medications in
psychiatry has created a paradigmatic crisis in psychiatry. The Research Domain Criteria …

The hidden brain: uncovering previously overlooked brain regions by employing novel preclinical unbiased network approaches

S Simpson, Y Chen, E Wellmeyer, LC Smith… - Frontiers in Systems …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
A large focus of modern neuroscience has revolved around preselected brain regions of
interest based on prior studies. While there are reasons to focus on brain regions implicated …

Activation of direct and indirect pathway medium spiny neurons drives distinct brain-wide responses

HJ Lee, AJ Weitz, D Bernal-Casas, BA Duffy, MK Choy… - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
A central theory of basal ganglia function is that striatal neurons expressing the D1 and D2
dopamine receptors exert opposing brain-wide influences. However, the causal influence of …

Optogenetic fMRI reveals distinct, frequency-dependent networks recruited by dorsal and intermediate hippocampus stimulations

AJ Weitz, Z Fang, HJ Lee, RS Fisher, WC Smith… - Neuroimage, 2015 - Elsevier
Although the connectivity of hippocampal circuits has been extensively studied, the way in
which these connections give rise to large-scale dynamic network activity remains unknown …

Studying brain circuit function with dynamic causal modeling for optogenetic fMRI

D Bernal-Casas, HJ Lee, AJ Weitz, JH Lee - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
Defining the large-scale behavior of brain circuits with cell type specificity is a major goal of
neuroscience. However, neuronal circuit diagrams typically draw upon anatomical and …

MRI compatible optrodes for simultaneous LFP and optogenetic fMRI investigation of seizure-like afterdischarges

BA Duffy, MK Choy, MR Chuapoco, M Madsen, JH Lee - Neuroimage, 2015 - Elsevier
In preclinical studies, implanted electrodes can cause severe degradation of MRI images
and hence are seldom used for chronic studies employing functional magnetic resonance …

High spatial resolution compressed sensing (HSPARSE) functional MRI

Z Fang, N Van Le, MK Choy… - Magnetic resonance in …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To propose a novel compressed sensing (CS) high spatial resolution functional
MRI (fMRI) method and demonstrate the advantages and limitations of using CS for high …

Optogenetic functional MRI

P Lin, Z Fang, J Liu, JH Lee - Journal of Visualized …, 2016 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The investigation of the functional connectivity of precise neural circuits across the entire
intact brain can be achieved through optogenetic functional magnetic resonance imaging …

Comparison of fMRI analysis methods for heterogeneous BOLD responses in block design studies

J Liu, BA Duffy, D Bernal-Casas, Z Fang, JH Lee - Neuroimage, 2017 - Elsevier
A large number of fMRI studies have shown that the temporal dynamics of evoked BOLD
responses can be highly heterogeneous. Failing to model heterogeneous responses in …

Probing Neural Transplant Networks In Vivo with Optogenetics and Optogenetic fMRI

AJ Weitz, JH Lee - Stem Cells International, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how stem cell‐derived neurons functionally integrate into the brain upon
transplantation has been a long sought‐after goal of regenerative medicine. However …