Attractor and integrator networks in the brain

M Khona, IR Fiete - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
In this Review, we describe the singular success of attractor neural network models in
describing how the brain maintains persistent activity states for working memory, corrects …

[HTML][HTML] Microbiota-brain interactions: Moving toward mechanisms in model organisms

J Nagpal, JF Cryan - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Changes in the microbiota are associated with alterations in nervous system structure-
function and behavior and have been implicated in the etiology of neuropsychiatric and …

[HTML][HTML] A connectome and analysis of the adult Drosophila central brain

LK Scheffer, CS Xu, M Januszewski, Z Lu, S Takemura… - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
The neural circuits responsible for animal behavior remain largely unknown. We summarize
new methods and present the circuitry of a large fraction of the brain of the fruit fly …

FlyWire: online community for whole-brain connectomics

S Dorkenwald, CE McKellar, T Macrina, N Kemnitz… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Due to advances in automated image acquisition and analysis, whole-brain connectomes
with 100,000 or more neurons are on the horizon. Proofreading of whole-brain automated …

Functional connectomics spanning multiple areas of mouse visual cortex

MICrONS Consortium, JA Bae, M Baptiste, CA Bishop… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
To understand the brain we must relate neurons' functional responses to the circuit
architecture that shapes them. Here, we present a large functional connectomics dataset …

An open-access volume electron microscopy atlas of whole cells and tissues

CS Xu, S Pang, G Shtengel, A Müller, AT Ritter… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding cellular architecture is essential for understanding biology. Electron
microscopy (EM) uniquely visualizes cellular structures with nanometre resolution. However …

Theory of the multiregional neocortex: large-scale neural dynamics and distributed cognition

XJ Wang - Annual review of neuroscience, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The neocortex is a complex neurobiological system with many interacting regions. How
these regions work together to subserve flexible behavior and cognition has become …

[HTML][HTML] A petascale automated imaging pipeline for mapping neuronal circuits with high-throughput transmission electron microscopy

W Yin, D Brittain, J Borseth, ME Scott, D Williams… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Electron microscopy (EM) is widely used for studying cellular structure and network
connectivity in the brain. We have built a parallel imaging pipeline using transmission …

Decoding gene regulation in the fly brain

J Janssens, S Aibar, II Taskiran, JN Ismail, AE Gomez… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The Drosophila brain is a frequently used model in neuroscience. Single-cell transcriptome
analysis,,,,–, three-dimensional morphological classification and electron microscopy …

[HTML][HTML] neuPrint: An open access tool for EM connectomics

SM Plaza, J Clements, T Dolafi, L Umayam… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Due to advances in electron microscopy and deep learning, it is now practical to reconstruct
a connectome, a description of neurons and the chemical synapses between them, for …