Distributed dopaminergic signaling in the basal ganglia and its relationship to motor disability in Parkinson's disease

S Zhai, Q Cui, DNV Simmons, DJ Surmeier - Current opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
The degeneration of mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons that innervate the basal ganglia
is responsible for the cardinal motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD). It has been …

Dopamine and glutamate regulate striatal acetylcholine in decision-making

L Chantranupong, CC Beron, JA Zimmer, MJ Wen… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Striatal dopamine and acetylcholine are essential for the selection and reinforcement of
motor actions and decision-making. In vitro studies have revealed an intrastriatal circuit in …

[HTML][HTML] Cell type specificity for circuit output in the midbrain dopaminergic system

S Blaess, S Krabbe - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Midbrain dopaminergic neurons are a relatively small group of neurons in the mammalian
brain controlling a wide range of behaviors. In recent years, increasingly sophisticated …

Large language models streamline automated machine learning for clinical studies

S Tayebi Arasteh, T Han, M Lotfinia, C Kuhl… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A knowledge gap persists between machine learning (ML) developers (eg, data scientists)
and practitioners (eg, clinicians), hampering the full utilization of ML for clinical data …

Calbindin and Girk2/Aldh1a1 define resilient vs vulnerable dopaminergic neurons in a primate Parkinson's disease model

NLG Del Rey, N Hernández-Pinedo, M Carrillo… - npj Parkinson's …, 2024 - nature.com
The differential vulnerability of dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra pars compacta
(SNc) is a critical and unresolved question in Parkinson´ s disease. Studies in mice show …

Dopamine pathways mediating affective state transitions after sleep loss

M Wu, X Zhang, S Feng, SN Freda, P Kumari… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
The pathophysiology of affective disorders—particularly circuit-level mechanisms underlying
bidirectional, periodic affective state transitions—remains poorly understood. In patients …

Relative sparing of dopaminergic terminals in the caudate nucleus is a feature of rest tremor in Parkinson's disease

MD Mendonça, PC Ferreira, F Oliveira… - npj Parkinson's …, 2024 - nature.com
Resting tremor (RT) is a Parkinson's disease (PD) symptom with an unclear relationship to
the dopaminergic system. We analysed data from 432 subjects from the Parkinson's …

Striosomes control dopamine via dual pathways paralleling canonical basal ganglia circuits

I Lazaridis, JR Crittenden, G Ahn, K Hirokane… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Balanced activity of canonical direct D1 and indirect D2 basal ganglia pathways is
considered a core requirement for normal movement, and their imbalance is an etiologic …

Distributional coding of associative learning in discrete populations of midbrain dopamine neurons

R Avvisati, AK Kaufmann, CJ Young, GE Portlock… - Cell reports, 2024 - cell.com
Midbrain dopamine neurons are thought to play key roles in learning by conveying the
difference between expected and actual outcomes. Recent evidence suggests diversity in …

Functionally refined encoding of threat memory by distinct populations of basal forebrain cholinergic projection neurons

P Rajebhosale, MR Ananth, R Kim, R Crouse, L Jiang… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Neurons of the basal forebrain nucleus basalis and posterior substantia innominata (NBM/SI
p) comprise the major source of cholinergic input to the basolateral amygdala (BLA). Using a …