Altered connectivity in depression: GABA and glutamate neurotransmitter deficits and reversal by novel treatments

RS Duman, G Sanacora, JH Krystal - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
The mechanisms underlying the pathophysiology and treatment of depression and stress-
related disorders remain unclear, but studies in depressed patients and rodent models are …

CaM kinase: still inspiring at 40

KU Bayer, H Schulman - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Summary The Ca 2+/calmodulin (CaM)-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) was touted as
a memory molecule, even before its involvement in long-term potentiation (LTP) was shown …

Dendritic cortical microcircuits approximate the backpropagation algorithm

J Sacramento, R Ponte Costa… - Advances in neural …, 2018 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Deep learning has seen remarkable developments over the last years, many of them
inspired by neuroscience. However, the main learning mechanism behind these advances …

The plasticitome of cortical interneurons

AR McFarlan, CYC Chou, A Watanabe… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Hebb postulated that, to store information in the brain, assemblies of excitatory neurons
coding for a percept are bound together via associative long-term synaptic plasticity. In this …

Whole-neuron synaptic mapping reveals spatially precise excitatory/inhibitory balance limiting dendritic and somatic spiking

DM Iascone, Y Li, U Sümbül, M Doron, H Chen… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
The balance between excitatory and inhibitory (E and I) synapses is thought to be critical for
information processing in neural circuits. However, little is known about the spatial principles …

[HTML][HTML] Regulation of circuit organization and function through inhibitory synaptic plasticity

YK Wu, C Miehl, J Gjorgjieva - Trends in Neurosciences, 2022 - cell.com
Diverse inhibitory neurons in the mammalian brain shape circuit connectivity and dynamics
through mechanisms of synaptic plasticity. Inhibitory plasticity can establish …

Interneuron-specific plasticity at parvalbumin and somatostatin inhibitory synapses onto CA1 pyramidal neurons shapes hippocampal output

M Udakis, V Pedrosa, SEL Chamberlain… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The formation and maintenance of spatial representations within hippocampal cell
assemblies is strongly dictated by patterns of inhibition from diverse interneuron …

Spike timing-dependent plasticity and memory

D Debanne, Y Inglebert - Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Spike timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) is a bidirectional form of synaptic plasticity
discovered about 30 years ago and based on the relative timing of pre-and post-synaptic …

Preserving the balance: diverse forms of long-term GABAergic synaptic plasticity

CQ Chiu, A Barberis, MJ Higley - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
Cellular mechanisms that regulate the interplay of synaptic excitation and inhibition are
thought to be central to the functional stability of healthy neuronal circuits. A growing body of …

Keeping your brain in balance: Homeostatic regulation of network function

W Wen, GG Turrigiano - Annual Review of Neuroscience, 2024 - annualreviews.org
To perform computations with the efficiency necessary for animal survival, neocortical
microcircuits must be capable of reconfiguring in response to experience, while carefully …