Thalamic functions in distributed cognitive control

MM Halassa, S Kastner - Nature neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Cognition can be conceptualized as a set of algorithmic control functions whose real-time
deployment determines how an organism stores and uses information to guide thought and …

Mechanisms underlying gain modulation in the cortex

KA Ferguson, JA Cardin - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Cortical gain regulation allows neurons to respond adaptively to changing inputs. Neural
gain is modulated by internal and external influences, including attentional and arousal …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated multimodal cell atlas of Alzheimer's disease

MI Gabitto, KJ Travaglini, VM Rachleff, ES Kaplan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia in older adults. Although AD
progression is characterized by stereotyped accumulation of proteinopathies, the affected …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated morphoelectric and transcriptomic classification of cortical GABAergic cells

NW Gouwens, SA Sorensen, F Baftizadeh, A Budzillo… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Neurons are frequently classified into distinct types on the basis of structural, physiological,
or genetic attributes. To better constrain the definition of neuronal cell types, we …

Robust spike-based continual meta-learning improved by restricted minimum error entropy criterion

S Yang, J Tan, B Chen - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
The spiking neural network (SNN) is regarded as a promising candidate to deal with the
great challenges presented by current machine learning techniques, including the high …

[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 …

Power-efficient neural network with artificial dendrites

X Li, J Tang, Q Zhang, B Gao, JJ Yang, S Song… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
In the nervous system, dendrites, branches of neurons that transmit signals between
synapses and soma, play a critical role in processing functions, such as nonlinear …

[HTML][HTML] Phenotypic variation of transcriptomic cell types in mouse motor cortex

F Scala, D Kobak, M Bernabucci, Y Bernaerts… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Cortical neurons exhibit extreme diversity in gene expression as well as in morphological
and electrophysiological properties 1, 2. Most existing neural taxonomies are based on …

Developmental diversification of cortical inhibitory interneurons

C Mayer, C Hafemeister, RC Bandler, R Machold… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Diverse subsets of cortical interneurons have vital roles in higher-order brain functions. To
investigate how this diversity is generated, here we used single-cell RNA sequencing to …

General anesthesia decouples cortical pyramidal neurons

M Suzuki, ME Larkum - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The mystery of general anesthesia is that it specifically suppresses consciousness by
disrupting feedback signaling in the brain, even when feedforward signaling and basic …