Reversal of age-related neuronal atrophy by α5-GABAA receptor positive allosteric modulation

TD Prevot, A Sumitomo, T Tomoda, DE Knutson… - Cerebral …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… and spine numbers of cortical neurons in vitro. Using old mice… accompanied by increased
prevalence of cognitive decline … we hypothesized that facilitating the action of GABA at the α 5 -…

GABA levels in ventral visual cortex decline with age and are associated with neural distinctiveness

JD Chamberlain, H Gagnon, P Lalwani… - Neurobiology of …, 2021 - Elsevier
… in neural distinctiveness can account for a number of … neurons in young monkeys respond
less selectively, like the … We also found age-related neural dedifferentiation in older compared …

[HTML][HTML] GABAergic dysfunction, neural network hyperactivity and memory impairments in human aging and Alzheimer's disease

J Jiménez-Balado, TS Eich - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2021 - Elsevier
… of cognitive functions—usually accompanied or preceded by a deterioration of emotional …
GABA in age-related cognitive decline. Several previous articles have thoroughly reviewed …

Age-related changes in the auditory brainstem and inferior colliculus

J Syka - Aging and Hearing: Causes and Consequences, 2020 - Springer
… In summary, aging is accompanied in the CN by decreases in … of a significant age-related
neuronal loss. Thus, aging is not … , the number of GABA-immunoreactive neurons was reduced

Age-dependent changes in synaptic NMDA receptor composition in adult human cortical neurons

CM Pegasiou, A Zolnourian, D Gomez-Nicola… - Cerebral …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… and proteomic degradation. We show an age-dependent … mechanism in the age-related
decline in cognitive abilities and … individuals having a higher proportion of synaptic GluN2B-…

Dynamic recovery: GABA agonism restores neural variability in older, poorer performing adults

P Lalwani, DD Garrett, TA Polk - Journal of Neuroscience, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
… variability, we examined whether reduced brain signal … then decomposed using singular
value decomposition (SVD). This … in brain regions showing age-related reductions in SD BOLD , …

Age-related Changes in GABA: Effects on Neural Distinctiveness and Variability

PS Lalwani - 2022 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
age-related behavioral impairments, and that number is only … ; it is typically accompanied
by a decrease in physical and … single neurons and that age-related declines in GABA levels …

Chronic administration of a positive allosteric modulator at the α5-GABAA receptor reverses age-related dendritic shrinkage

TD Prevot, A Sumitomo, T Tomoda, DE Knutson, G Li… - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
… Here, we hypothesized that targeting the α5-GABA-A receptors … lifespan is accompanied by
normal cognitive decline and … aging induces neuronal loss contributing to cognitive decline. …

Age-associated changes to neuronal dynamics involve a disruption of excitatory/inhibitory balance in C. elegans

GS Wirak, J Florman, MJ Alkema, CW Connor… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
… and functional alterations accompanying senescence. We … We find that manipulation of
inhibitory GABA signaling can … in neuronal signaling and activity drive age- related decline in …

Mechanisms of GABAergic and cholinergic neurotransmission in auditory thalamus: Impact of aging

BD Richardson, SY Sottile, DM Caspary - Hearing research, 2021 - Elsevier
… this review will detail how age-related changes in these circuits … low doses of GABA (0–10
nA) failed to alter IC neuronal … activity followed by or accompanied with high frequency bursts …