Search Results - "Frontiers in neural circuits"

PV Interneurons: Critical Regulators of E/I Balance for Prefrontal Cortex-Dependent Behavior and Psychiatric Disorders by Ferguson, Brielle R., Gao, Wen-Jun

“…Elucidating the prefrontal cortical microcircuit has been challenging, given its role in multiple complex behaviors, including working memory, cognitive…”
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Eligibility Traces and Plasticity on Behavioral Time Scales: Experimental Support of NeoHebbian Three-Factor Learning Rules by Gerstner, Wulfram, Lehmann, Marco, Liakoni, Vasiliki, Corneil, Dane, Brea, Johanni

“…Most elementary behaviors such as moving the arm to grasp an object or walking into the next room to explore a museum evolve on the time scale of seconds; in…”
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Calcium Permeable-AMPA Receptors and Excitotoxicity in Neurological Disorders by Guo, Changyong, Ma, Yao-Ying

“…Excitotoxicity is one of the primary mechanisms of cell loss in a variety of diseases of the central and peripheral nervous systems. Other than the previously…”
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VTA GABA Neurons at the Interface of Stress and Reward by Bouarab, Chloé, Thompson, Brittney, Polter, Abigail M.

“…The ventral tegmental area (VTA) is best known for its robust dopaminergic projections to forebrain regions and their critical role in regulating reward,…”
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Neuromodulated Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity, and Theory of Three-Factor Learning Rules by Frémaux, Nicolas, Gerstner, Wulfram

“…Classical Hebbian learning puts the emphasis on joint pre- and postsynaptic activity, but neglects the potential role of neuromodulators. Since neuromodulators…”
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From Structure to Behavior in Basolateral Amygdala-Hippocampus Circuits by Yang, Ying, Wang, Jian-Zhi

“…Emotion influences various cognitive processes, including learning and memory. The amygdala is specialized for input and processing of emotion, while the…”
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Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses, a Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex by Hawkins, Jeff, Ahmad, Subutai

“…Pyramidal neurons represent the majority of excitatory neurons in the neocortex. Each pyramidal neuron receives input from thousands of excitatory synapses…”
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Origins, Development, and Compartmentation of the Granule Cells of the Cerebellum by Consalez, G. Giacomo, Goldowitz, Daniel, Casoni, Filippo, Hawkes, Richard

“…Granule cells (GCs) are the most numerous cell type in the cerebellum and indeed, in the brain: at least 99% of all cerebellar neurons are granule cells. In…”
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Locus Coeruleus Norepinephrine in Learned Behavior: Anatomical Modularity and Spatiotemporal Integration in Targets by Breton-Provencher, Vincent, Drummond, Gabrielle T., Sur, Mriganka

“…The locus coeruleus (LC), a small brainstem nucleus, is the primary source of the neuromodulator norepinephrine (NE) in the brain. The LC receives input from…”
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Neuromodulatory Correlates of Pupil Dilation by Larsen, Rylan S., Waters, Jack

“…Pupillometry has long been used as a measure of brain state. Changes in pupil diameter are thought to coincide with the activity of neuromodulators, including…”
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VAST (Volume Annotation and Segmentation Tool): Efficient Manual and Semi-Automatic Labeling of Large 3D Image Stacks by Berger, Daniel R., Seung, H. Sebastian, Lichtman, Jeff W.

“…Recent developments in serial-section electron microscopy allow the efficient generation of very large image data sets but analyzing such data poses challenges…”
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Effects of rTMS Treatment on Cognitive Impairment and Resting-State Brain Activity in Stroke Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Yin, Mingyu, Liu, Yuanwen, Zhang, Liying, Zheng, Haiqing, Peng, Lingrong, Ai, Yinan, Luo, Jing, Hu, Xiquan

“…Background: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has been employed for motor function rehabilitation for stroke patients, but its effects on…”
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Local Field Potentials: Myths and Misunderstandings by Herreras, Oscar

“…The intracerebral local field potential (LFP) is a measure of brain activity that reflects the highly dynamic flow of information across neural networks. This…”
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Why Brain Criticality Is Clinically Relevant: A Scoping Review by Zimmern, Vincent

“…The past 25 years have seen a strong increase in the number of publications related to criticality in different areas of neuroscience. The potential of…”
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From Synapses to Circuits, Astrocytes Regulate Behavior by Lyon, Krissy A., Allen, Nicola J.

“…Astrocytes are non-neuronal cells that regulate synapses, neuronal circuits, and behavior. Astrocytes ensheath neuronal synapses to form the tripartite synapse…”
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A Diversity of Intrinsic Timescales Underlie Neural Computations by Cavanagh, Sean E., Hunt, Laurence T., Kennerley, Steven W.

“…Neural processing occurs across a range of temporal scales. To facilitate this, the brain uses fast-changing representations reflecting momentary sensory input…”
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Neuromodulatory Systems and Their Interactions: A Review of Models, Theories, and Experiments by Avery, Michael C., Krichmar, Jeffrey L.

“…Neuromodulatory systems, including the noradrenergic, serotonergic, dopaminergic, and cholinergic systems, track environmental signals, such as risks, rewards,…”
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Mesocorticolimbic Dopamine Pathways Across Adolescence: Diversity in Development by Reynolds, Lauren M., Flores, Cecilia

“…Mesocorticolimbic dopamine circuity undergoes a protracted maturation during adolescent life. Stable adult levels of behavioral functioning in reward,…”
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Breathing as a Fundamental Rhythm of Brain Function by Heck, Detlef H., McAfee, Samuel S., Liu, Yu, Babajani-Feremi, Abbas, Rezaie, Roozbeh, Freeman, Walter J., Wheless, James W., Papanicolaou, Andrew C., Ruszinkó, Miklós, Sokolov, Yury, Kozma, Robert

“…Ongoing fluctuations of neuronal activity have long been considered intrinsic noise that introduces unavoidable and unwanted variability into neuronal…”
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A Framework for Intelligence and Cortical Function Based on Grid Cells in the Neocortex by Hawkins, Jeff, Lewis, Marcus, Klukas, Mirko, Purdy, Scott, Ahmad, Subutai

“…How the neocortex works is a mystery. In this paper we propose a novel framework for understanding its function. Grid cells are neurons in the entorhinal…”
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