Circuit investigations with open-source miniaturized microscopes: past, present and future

D Aharoni, TM Hoogland - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The ability to simultaneously image the spatiotemporal activity signatures from many
neurons during unrestrained vertebrate behaviors has become possible through the …

Multiregion neuronal activity: the forest and the trees

TA Machado, IV Kauvar, K Deisseroth - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
The past decade has witnessed remarkable advances in the simultaneous measurement of
neuronal activity across many brain regions, enabling fundamentally new explorations of the …

Maturation and circuit integration of transplanted human cortical organoids

O Revah, F Gore, KW Kelley, J Andersen, N Sakai… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Self-organizing neural organoids represent a promising in vitro platform with which to model
human development and disease,,,–. However, organoids lack the connectivity that exists in …

Antipsychotic drug efficacy correlates with the modulation of D1 rather than D2 receptor-expressing striatal projection neurons

S Yun, B Yang, JD Anair, MM Martin, SW Fleps… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Elevated dopamine transmission in psychosis is assumed to unbalance striatal output
through D1-and D2-receptor-expressing spiny-projection neurons (SPNs). Antipsychotic …

Fiber photometry in striatum reflects primarily nonsomatic changes in calcium

AA Legaria, BA Matikainen-Ankney, B Yang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Fiber photometry enables recording of population neuronal calcium dynamics in awake
mice. While the popularity of fiber photometry has grown in recent years, it remains unclear …

Neural dynamics underlying associative learning in the dorsal and ventral hippocampus

JS Biane, MA Ladow, F Stefanini, SP Boddu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Animals associate cues with outcomes and update these associations as new information is
presented. This requires the hippocampus, yet how hippocampal neurons track changes in …

Active experience, not time, determines within-day representational drift in dorsal CA1

D Khatib, A Ratzon, M Sellevoll, O Barak, G Morris… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Memories of past events can be recalled long after the event, indicating stability. But new
experiences are also integrated into existing memories, indicating plasticity. In the …

Dopamine neuron activity before action initiation gates and invigorates future movements

JA Da Silva, F Tecuapetla, V Paixão, RM Costa - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Deciding when and whether to move is critical for survival. Loss of dopamine neurons
(DANs) of the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc) in patients with Parkinson's disease …

CaImAn an open source tool for scalable calcium imaging data analysis

A Giovannucci, J Friedrich, P Gunn, J Kalfon, BL Brown… - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Advances in fluorescence microscopy enable monitoring larger brain areas in-vivo with finer
time resolution. The resulting data rates require reproducible analysis pipelines that are …

Tuned geometries of hippocampal representations meet the computational demands of social memory

LM Boyle, L Posani, S Irfan, SA Siegelbaum, S Fusi - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Social memory consists of two processes: the detection of familiar compared with novel
conspecifics and the detailed recollection of past social episodes. We investigated the …