Cortical and striatal circuits in Huntington's disease

S Blumenstock, I Dudanova - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Huntington's disease (HD) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder that typically
manifests in midlife with motor, cognitive, and/or psychiatric symptoms. The disease is …

[HTML][HTML] Microglia and complement mediate early corticostriatal synapse loss and cognitive dysfunction in Huntington's disease

DK Wilton, K Mastro, MD Heller, FW Gergits… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is a devastating monogenic neurodegenerative disease
characterized by early, selective pathology in the basal ganglia despite the ubiquitous …

[HTML][HTML] Neural circuit changes in neurological disorders: evidence from in vivo two-photon imaging

H Xiong, F Tang, Y Guo, R Xu, P Lei - Ageing Research Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Neural circuits, such as synaptic plasticity and neural activity, are critical components of
healthy brain function. The consequent dynamic remodeling of neural circuits is an ongoing …

Motor learning promotes remyelination via new and surviving oligodendrocytes

CM Bacmeister, HJ Barr, CR McClain… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Oligodendrocyte loss in neurological disease leaves axons vulnerable to damage and
degeneration, and activity-dependent myelination may represent an endogenous …

Exciting complexity: the role of motor circuit elements in ALS pathophysiology

ZI Gunes, VWY Kan, XQ Ye, S Liebscher - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal disease, characterized by the degeneration of
both upper and lower motor neurons. Despite decades of research, we still to date lack a …

Synaptic dysfunction in Huntington's disease: lessons from genetic animal models

C Cepeda, MS Levine - The Neuroscientist, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The understanding of the functional and structural changes occurring in the cerebral cortex
and basal ganglia in Huntington's disease (HD) has benefited considerably from the …

[HTML][HTML] Resting-state fMRI reveals longitudinal alterations in brain network connectivity in the zQ175DN mouse model of Huntington's disease

T Vasilkovska, MH Adhikari, J Van Audekerke… - Neurobiology of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Huntington's disease is an autosomal, dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disease
caused by an expansion of the CAG repeats in exon 1 of the huntingtin gene. Neuronal …

Long-term dynamics of aberrant neuronal activity in awake Alzheimer's disease transgenic mice

V Korzhova, P Marinković, JR Njavro… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with aberrant neuronal activity, which is believed to
critically determine disease symptoms. How these activity alterations emerge, how stable …

[HTML][HTML] Huntington's disease mouse models: Unraveling the pathology caused by CAG repeat expansion

J Kaye, T Reisine, S Finkbeiner - Faculty reviews, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disease that results in motor and
cognitive dysfunction, leading to early death. HD is caused by an expansion of CAG repeats …

[HTML][HTML] Abnormal patterns of sleep and EEG power distribution during non-rapid eye movement sleep in the sheep model of Huntington's disease

S Vas, AU Nicol, L Kalmar, J Miles, AJ Morton - Neurobiology of disease, 2021 - Elsevier
Sleep disruption is a common invisible symptom of neurological dysfunction in Huntington's
disease (HD) that takes an insidious toll on well-being of patients. Here we used …