NMDA receptor subunit diversity: impact on receptor properties, synaptic plasticity and disease

P Paoletti, C Bellone, Q Zhou - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2013 - nature.com
NMDA receptors (NMDARs) are glutamate-gated ion channels and are crucial for neuronal
communication. NMDARs form tetrameric complexes that consist of several homologous …

Microglia function in central nervous system development and plasticity

DP Schafer, B Stevens - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2015 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The nervous system comprises a remarkably diverse and complex network of different cell
types, which must communicate with one another with speed, reliability, and precision. Thus …

Moiré synaptic transistor with room-temperature neuromorphic functionality

X Yan, Z Zheng, VK Sangwan, JH Qian, X Wang… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Moiré quantum materials host exotic electronic phenomena through enhanced internal
Coulomb interactions in twisted two-dimensional heterostructures,,–. When combined with …

Microglial interactions with synapses are modulated by visual experience

MÈ Tremblay, RL Lowery, AK Majewska - PLoS biology, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Microglia are the immune cells of the brain. In the absence of pathological insult, their highly
motile processes continually survey the brain parenchyma and transiently contact synaptic …

The “quad‐partite” synapse: Microglia‐synapse interactions in the developing and mature CNS

DP Schafer, EK Lehrman, B Stevens - Glia, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Microglia are the resident immune cells and phagocytes of our central nervous system
(CNS). While most work has focused on the rapid and robust responses of microglia during …

Synaptic plasticity: multiple forms, functions, and mechanisms

A Citri, RC Malenka - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2008 - nature.com
Experiences, whether they be learning in a classroom, a stressful event, or ingestion of a
psychoactive substance, impact the brain by modifying the activity and organization of …

Critical period plasticity in local cortical circuits

TK Hensch - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2005 - nature.com
Neuronal circuits in the brain are shaped by experience during'critical periods' in early
postnatal life. In the primary visual cortex, this activity-dependent development is triggered …

Economic, neurobiological, and behavioral perspectives on building America's future workforce

EI Knudsen, JJ Heckman… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
A growing proportion of the US workforce will have been raised in disadvantaged
environments that are associated with relatively high proportions of individuals with …

NMDA receptor subunits: diversity, development and disease

S Cull-Candy, S Brickley, M Farrant - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2001 - Elsevier
N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) are present at many excitatory glutamate
synapses in the central nervous system and display unique properties that depend on their …

Diversity in NMDA receptor composition: many regulators, many consequences

A Sanz-Clemente, RA Nicoll… - The Neuroscientist, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) are a subtype of ionotropic glutamate receptor,
which play a central role in learning, memory, and synaptic development. NMDARs are …