Microcircuits for spatial coding in the medial entorhinal cortex

JJ Tukker, P Beed, M Brecht, R Kempter… - Physiological …, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
The hippocampal formation is critically involved in learning and memory and contains a
large proportion of neurons encoding aspects of the organism's spatial surroundings. In the …

[HTML][HTML] Progress and remaining challenges in high-throughput volume electron microscopy

J Kornfeld, W Denk - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Breakthrough in automatic neuron reconstruction from VEM data will enable the
reconstruction of much larger data sets in the future.•Volume electron microscopy imaging …

Connectomic comparison of mouse and human cortex

S Loomba, J Straehle, V Gangadharan, N Heike… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The human cerebral cortex houses 1000 times more neurons than that of the cerebral cortex
of a mouse, but the possible differences in synaptic circuits between these species are still …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstruction of neocortex: Organelles, compartments, cells, circuits, and activity

NL Turner, T Macrina, JA Bae, R Yang, AM Wilson… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
We assembled a semi-automated reconstruction of L2/3 mouse primary visual cortex from∼
250× 140× 90 μm 3 of electron microscopic images, including pyramidal and non-pyramidal …

Automated synapse-level reconstruction of neural circuits in the larval zebrafish brain

F Svara, D Förster, F Kubo, M Januszewski… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Dense reconstruction of synaptic connectivity requires high-resolution electron microscopy
images of entire brains and tools to efficiently trace neuronal wires across the volume. To …

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 …

Molecular atlas of the adult mouse brain

C Ortiz, JF Navarro, A Jurek, A Märtin, J Lundeberg… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Brain maps are essential for integrating information and interpreting the structure-function
relationship of circuits and behavior. We aimed to generate a systematic classification of the …

Dense connectomic reconstruction in layer 4 of the somatosensory cortex

A Motta, M Berning, KM Boergens, B Staffler, M Beining… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The brain of mammals consists of an enormously dense network of
neuronal wires: the axons and dendrites of nerve cells. Their packing density is so high that …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstruction of motor control circuits in adult Drosophila using automated transmission electron microscopy

JS Phelps, DGC Hildebrand, BJ Graham, AT Kuan… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
To investigate circuit mechanisms underlying locomotor behavior, we used serial-section
electron microscopy (EM) to acquire a synapse-resolution dataset containing the ventral …

A petavoxel fragment of human cerebral cortex reconstructed at nanoscale resolution

A Shapson-Coe, M Januszewski, DR Berger, A Pope… - Science, 2024 - science.org
To fully understand how the human brain works, knowledge of its structure at high resolution
is needed. Presented here is a computationally intensive reconstruction of the ultrastructure …