Translational opportunities and challenges of invasive electrodes for neural interfaces

K Shen, O Chen, JL Edmunds, DK Piech… - Nature Biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
Invasive brain–machine interfaces can restore motor, sensory and cognitive functions.
However, their clinical adoption has been hindered by the surgical risk of implantation and …

Neuronal circuits in barrel cortex for whisker sensory perception

JF Staiger, CCH Petersen - Physiological reviews, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
The array of whiskers on the snout provides rodents with tactile sensory information relating
to the size, shape and texture of objects in their immediate environment. Rodents can use …

Local connectivity and synaptic dynamics in mouse and human neocortex

L Campagnola, SC Seeman, T Chartrand, L Kim… - Science, 2022 - science.org
We present a unique, extensive, and open synaptic physiology analysis platform and
dataset. Through its application, we reveal principles that relate cell type to synaptic …

High-density electrode recordings reveal strong and specific connections between retinal ganglion cells and midbrain neurons

J Sibille, C Gehr, JI Benichov… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The superior colliculus is a midbrain structure that plays important roles in visually guided
behaviors in mammals. Neurons in the superior colliculus receive inputs from retinal …

Parvalbumin+ interneurons obey unique connectivity rules and establish a powerful lateral-inhibition microcircuit in dentate gyrus

C Espinoza, SJ Guzman, X Zhang, P Jonas - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Parvalbumin-positive (PV+) GABAergic interneurons in hippocampal microcircuits
are thought to play a key role in several higher network functions, such as feedforward and …

Sparse recurrent excitatory connectivity in the microcircuit of the adult mouse and human cortex

SC Seeman, L Campagnola, PA Davoudian… - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Generating a comprehensive description of cortical networks requires a large-scale,
systematic approach. To that end, we have begun a pipeline project using multipatch …

[HTML][HTML] Determinants of functional synaptic connectivity among amygdala-projecting prefrontal cortical neurons in male mice

Y Printz, P Patil, M Mahn, A Benjamin, A Litvin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) mediates a variety of complex cognitive functions via its
vast and diverse connections with cortical and subcortical structures. Understanding the …

Active dendrites enable strong but sparse inputs to determine orientation selectivity

L Goetz, A Roth, M Häusser - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The dendrites of neocortical pyramidal neurons are excitable. However, it is unknown how
synaptic inputs engage nonlinear dendritic mechanisms during sensory processing in vivo …

Rapid sensory adaptation redux: a circuit perspective

CJ Whitmire, GB Stanley - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
Adaptation is fundamental to life. All organisms adapt over timescales that span from
evolution to generations and lifetimes to moment-by-moment interactions. The nervous …

Excitatory and inhibitory subnetworks are equally selective during decision-making and emerge simultaneously during learning

F Najafi, GF Elsayed, R Cao, E Pnevmatikakis… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Inhibitory neurons, which play a critical role in decision-making models, are often simplified
as a single pool of non-selective neurons lacking connection specificity. This assumption is …