[HTML][HTML] Integrating across behaviors and timescales to understand the neural control of movement

JM Gmaz, JA Keller, JT Dudman, JA Gallego - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
The nervous system evolved to enable navigation throughout the environment in the pursuit
of resources. Evolutionarily newer structures allowed increasingly complex adaptations but …

A transdiagnostic and translational framework for delineating the neuronal mechanisms of compulsive exercise in anorexia nervosa

K Conn, K Huang, S Gorrell… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The development of novel treatments for anorexia nervosa (AN) requires a
detailed understanding of the biological underpinnings of specific, commonly occurring …

Huntingtin recruits KIF1A to transport synaptic vesicle precursors along the mouse axon to support synaptic transmission and motor skill learning

H Vitet, J Bruyère, H Xu, C Séris, J Brocard, YS Abada… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Neurotransmitters are released at synapses by synaptic vesicles (SVs), which originate from
SV precursors (SVPs) that have traveled along the axon. Because each synapse maintains …

Layer 5 intratelencephalic neurons in the motor cortex stably encode skilled movement

T Shinotsuka, YR Tanaka, SI Terada… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
The primary motor cortex (M1) and the dorsal striatum play a critical role in motor learning
and the retention of learned behaviors. Motor representations of corticostriatal ensembles …

Specific patterns of neural activity in the hippocampus after massed or distributed spatial training

E Centofante, L Fralleoni, CA Lupascu, M Migliore… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Training with long inter-session intervals, termed distributed training, has long been known
to be superior to training with short intervals, termed massed training. In the present study …

Cell-Type Specific Connectivity of Whisker-Related Sensory and Motor Cortical Input to Dorsal Striatum

BD Sanabria, SS Baskar, AJ Yonk, I Linares-Garcia… - eneuro, 2024 - eneuro.org
The anterior dorsolateral striatum (DLS) is heavily innervated by convergent excitatory
projections from the primary motor (M1) and sensory cortex (S1) and considered an …

Competing neural representations of choice shape evidence accumulation in humans

K Bond, J Rasero, R Madan, J Bahuguna, J Rubin… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Making adaptive choices in dynamic environments requires flexible decision policies.
Previously, we showed how shifts in outcome contingency change the evidence …

Cerebellar output neurons impair non-motor behaviors by altering development of extracerebellar connectivity

AS Lee, TM Arefin, A Gubanova, DN Stephen, Y Liu… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The capacity of the brain to compensate for insults during development depends on the type
of cell loss, whereas the consequences of genetic mutations in the same neurons are …

Neuromodulation of striatal D1 cells shapes BOLD fluctuations in anatomically connected thalamic and cortical regions

M Markicevic, O Sturman, J Bohacek, M Rudin, V Zerbi… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Understanding how the brain's macroscale dynamics are shaped by underlying microscale
mechanisms is a key problem in neuroscience. In animal models, we can now investigate …

Hippocampal motor memory network reorganization depends on familiarity, not time

DG Sullens, P Nguyen, K Gilley, MB Wiffler… - Learning & …, 2023 - learnmem.cshlp.org
There is debate as to whether a time-dependent transformation of the episodic-like memory
network is observed for nonepisodic tasks, including procedural motor memory. To …