Degeneracy in epilepsy: multiple routes to hyperexcitable brain circuits and their repair

TM Stöber, D Batulin, J Triesch, R Narayanan… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Due to its complex and multifaceted nature, developing effective treatments for epilepsy is
still a major challenge. To deal with this complexity we introduce the concept of degeneracy …

Pain modulation in the spinal cord

CJ Woolf - Frontiers in Pain Research, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The sensory inflow from the periphery that triggers innocuous and painful sensations is
highly complex, capturing key elements of the nature of any stimulus, its location, intensity …

Modernizing the NEURON simulator for sustainability, portability, and performance

O Awile, P Kumbhar, N Cornu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The need for reproducible, credible, multiscale biological modeling has led to the
development of standardized simulation platforms, such as the widely-used NEURON …

Modulation of SK channels via calcium buffering tunes intrinsic excitability of parvalbumin interneurons in neuropathic pain: A computational and experimental …

X Ma, LS Miraucourt, H Qiu… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Parvalbumin-expressing interneurons (PVINs) play a crucial role within the dorsal horn of
the spinal cord by preventing touch inputs from activating pain circuits. In both male and …

A systematic review of computational models for the design of spinal cord stimulation therapies: from neural circuits to patient‐specific simulations

L Liang, A Damiani, M Del Brocco… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Seventy years ago, Hodgkin and Huxley published the first mathematical model to describe
action potential generation, laying the foundation for modern computational neuroscience …

Multimodal sensory control of motor performance by glycinergic interneurons of the mouse spinal cord deep dorsal horn

MA Gradwell, N Ozeri-Engelhard, JT Eisdorfer… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Sensory feedback is integral for contextually appropriate motor output, yet the neural circuits
responsible remain elusive. Here, we pinpoint the medial deep dorsal horn of the mouse …

Pareto optimality, economy–effectiveness trade-offs and ion channel degeneracy: improving population modelling for single neurons

P Jedlicka, AD Bird, H Cuntz - Open biology, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Neurons encounter unavoidable evolutionary trade-offs between multiple tasks. They must
consume as little energy as possible while effectively fulfilling their functions. Cells …

Large-scale biophysically detailed model of somatosensory thalamocortical circuits in NetPyNE

FS Borges, JVS Moreira, LM Takarabe… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The primary somatosensory cortex (S1) of mammals is critically important in the perception
of touch and related sensorimotor behaviors. In 2015, the Blue Brain Project (BBP) …

Network model of nociceptive processing in the superficial spinal dorsal horn reveals mechanisms of hyperalgesia, allodynia, and spinal cord stimulation

JE Gilbert, T Zhang, R Esteller… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
The spinal dorsal horn (DH) processes sensory information and plays a key role in
transmitting nociception to supraspinal centers. Loss of DH inhibition during neuropathic …

Parvalbumin gates chronic pain through the modulation of firing patterns in inhibitory neurons

H Qiu, LS Miraucourt, H Petitjean, M Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Spinal cord dorsal horn inhibition is critical to the processing of sensory inputs, and its
impairment leads to mechanical allodynia. How this decreased inhibition occurs and …