Recent progress on performance-enhancing strategies in flexible photodetectors: From structural engineering to flexible integration

P Wang, Y Lan, C Huan, J Luo, W Cai, J Fan… - Materials Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
As an important component of future electronic devices, photodetectors require mechanical
flexibility, and stretchability to meet the demands of conformal, portable, and lightweight …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Preserved neural dynamics across animals performing similar behaviour

M Safaie, JC Chang, J Park, LE Miller, JT Dudman… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Animals of the same species exhibit similar behaviours that are advantageously adapted to
their body and environment. These behaviours are shaped at the species level by selection …

[HTML][HTML] Early deficits in an in vitro striatal microcircuit model carrying the Parkinson's GBA-N370S mutation

QB Do, H Noor, R Marquez-Gomez, KML Cramb… - npj Parkinson's …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding medium spiny neuron (MSN) physiology is essential to understand motor
impairments in Parkinson's disease (PD) given the architecture of the basal ganglia. Here …

Preserved neural population dynamics across animals performing similar behaviour

M Safaie, JC Chang, J Park, LE Miller, JT Dudman… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Animals of the same species often exhibit similar behaviours that are advantageously
adapted to their body and their environment. These behaviours are shaped by selection …

[HTML][HTML] Segregation of D1 and D2 dopamine receptors in the striatal direct and indirect pathways: An historical perspective

CR Gerfen - Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The direct and indirect striatal pathways form a cornerstone of the circuits of the basal
ganglia. Dopamine has opponent affects on the function of these pathways due to the …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-timescale reinforcement learning in the brain

P Masset, P Tano, HGR Kim, AN Malik, A Pouget… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
To thrive in complex environments, animals and artificial agents must learn to act adaptively
to maximize fitness and rewards. Such adaptive behavior can be learned through …

Using temperature to analyze the neural basis of a time-based decision

T Monteiro, FS Rodrigues, M Pexirra, BF Cruz… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The basal ganglia are thought to contribute to decision-making and motor control. These
functions are critically dependent on timing information, which can be extracted from the …

[HTML][HTML] Electrophysiological insights into deep brain stimulation of the network disorder dystonia

D Franz, A Richter, R Köhling - Pflügers Archiv-European Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Deep brain stimulation (DBS), a treatment for modulating the abnormal central neuronal
circuitry, has become the standard of care nowadays and is sometimes the only option to …

Dopamine neurons encode a multidimensional probabilistic map of future reward

M Sousa, P Bujalski, BF Cruz, K Louie, D McNamee… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Learning to predict rewards is a fundamental driver of adaptive behavior. Midbrain
dopamine neurons (DANs) play a key role in such learning by signaling reward prediction …