Cortical-subcortical interactions in goal-directed behavior

KG Cruz, YN Leow, NM Le, E Adam… - Physiological …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Flexibly selecting appropriate actions in response to complex, ever-changing environments
requires both cortical and subcortical regions, which are typically described as participating …

Brain scaling in mammalian evolution as a consequence of concerted and mosaic changes in numbers of neurons and average neuronal cell size

S Herculano-Houzel, PR Manger… - Frontiers in neuroanatomy, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Enough species have now been subject to systematic quantitative analysis of the
relationship between the morphology and cellular composition of their brain that patterns …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing the effects of low-protein and high-carbohydrate diets and caloric restriction on brain aging in mice

D Wahl, SM Solon-Biet, QP Wang, JA Wali, T Pulpitel… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Calorie restriction (CR) increases lifespan and improves brain health in mice. Ad libitum low-
protein, high-carbohydrate (LPHC) diets also extend lifespan, but it is not known whether …

Pyramidal cell development: postnatal spinogenesis, dendritic growth, axon growth, and electrophysiology

GN Elston, I Fujita - Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Here we review recent findings related to postnatal spinogenesis, dendritic and axon
growth, pruning and electrophysiology of neocortical pyramidal cells in the developing …

Whole human-brain mapping of single cortical neurons for profiling morphological diversity and stereotypy

X Han, S Guo, N Ji, T Li, J Liu, X Ye, Y Wang, Z Yun… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Quantifying neuron morphology and distribution at the whole-brain scale is essential to
understand the structure and diversity of cell types. It is exceedingly challenging to reuse …

A cerebellar substrate for cognition evolved multiple times independently in mammals

JB Smaers, AH Turner, A Gómez-Robles… - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Given that complex behavior evolved multiple times independently in different lineages, a
crucial question is whether these independent evolutionary events coincided with …

Preliminary evidence of neuropathology in nonhuman primates prenatally exposed to maternal immune activation

RK Weir, R Forghany, SEP Smith, PH Patterson… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Maternal infection during pregnancy increases the risk for neurodevelopmental disorders in
offspring. Rodent models have played a critical role in establishing maternal immune …

Diverse neuron properties and complex network dynamics in the cerebellar cortical inhibitory circuit

F Prestori, L Mapelli, E D'Angelo - Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Neuronal inhibition can be defined as a spatiotemporal restriction or suppression of local
microcircuit activity. The importance of inhibition relies in its fundamental role in shaping …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of dolphins' body and brain measurements with four other groups of cetaceans reveals great diversity

SH Ridgway, KP Carlin, KR Van Alstyne… - Brain Behavior and …, 2017 - karger.com
We compared mature dolphins with 4 other groupings of mature cetaceans. With a large
data set, we found great brain diversity among 5 different taxonomic groupings. The …

[HTML][HTML] A deep-learning strategy to identify cell types across species from high-density extracellular recordings

M Beau, DJ Herzfeld, F Naveros, ME Hemelt… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
High-density probes allow electrophysiological recordings from many neurons
simultaneously across entire brain circuits but don't reveal cell type. Here, we develop a …