Oligodendrocyte precursor cells ingest axons in the mouse neocortex

JA Buchanan, L Elabbady, F Collman… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Neurons in the developing brain undergo extensive structural refinement as nascent circuits
adopt their mature form. This physical transformation of neurons is facilitated by the …

A connectomic study of a petascale fragment of human cerebral cortex

A Shapson-Coe, M Januszewski, DR Berger, A Pope… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
We acquired a rapidly preserved human surgical sample from the temporal lobe of the
cerebral cortex. We stained a 1 mm3 volume with heavy metals, embedded it in resin, cut …

[HTML][HTML] A transcriptomic axis predicts state modulation of cortical interneurons

S Bugeon, J Duffield, M Dipoppa, A Ritoux, I Prankerd… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Transcriptomics has revealed that cortical inhibitory neurons exhibit a great diversity of fine
molecular subtypes,,,,–, but it is not known whether these subtypes have correspondingly …

Connectomes across development reveal principles of brain maturation

D Witvliet, B Mulcahy, JK Mitchell, Y Meirovitch… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
An animal's nervous system changes as its body grows from birth to adulthood and its
behaviours mature,,,,,,–. The form and extent of circuit remodelling across the connectome is …

Functional connectomics spanning multiple areas of mouse visual cortex

MICrONS Consortium, JA Bae, M Baptiste, CA Bishop… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
To understand the brain we must relate neurons' functional responses to the circuit
architecture that shapes them. Here, we present a large functional connectomics dataset …

[HTML][HTML] Recruitment and inhibitory action of hippocampal axo-axonic cells during behavior

B Dudok, M Szoboszlay, A Paul, PM Klein, Z Liao… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
The axon initial segment of hippocampal pyramidal cells is a key subcellular compartment
for action potential generation, under GABAergic control by the" chandelier" or axo-axonic …

Binary and analog variation of synapses between cortical pyramidal neurons

S Dorkenwald, NL Turner, T Macrina, K Lee, R Lu… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Learning from experience depends at least in part on changes in neuronal connections. We
present the largest map of connectivity to date between cortical neurons of a defined type …

Stimulus type shapes the topology of cellular functional networks in mouse visual cortex

D Tang, J Zylberberg, X Jia, H Choi - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
On the timescale of sensory processing, neuronal networks have relatively fixed anatomical
connectivity, while functional interactions between neurons can vary depending on the …

Synaptic wiring motifs in posterior parietal cortex support decision-making

AT Kuan, G Bondanelli, LN Driscoll, J Han, M Kim… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The posterior parietal cortex exhibits choice-selective activity during perceptual decision-
making tasks,,,,,,,,–. However, it is not known how this selective activity arises from the …

Local shape descriptors for neuron segmentation

A Sheridan, TM Nguyen, D Deb, WCA Lee, S Saalfeld… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
We present an auxiliary learning task for the problem of neuron segmentation in electron
microscopy volumes. The auxiliary task consists of the prediction of local shape descriptors …