During even the most quiescent behavioral periods, the cortex and thalamus express rich
spontaneous activity in the form of slow (< 1 Hz), synchronous network state transitions …

Methods to control neural activity by light have been introduced to the field of neuroscience.
During the last decade, several techniques have been established, including optogenetics …

Long-term synaptic potentiation (LTP) is thought to be a key process in cortical synaptic
network plasticity and memory formation. Hebbian forms of LTP depend on strong …

Frontal cortical dysfunction is thought to contribute to cognitive and behavioral features of
autism spectrum disorders; however, underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. The …

The nervous system has a highly complex organization, including many cell types with
multiple functions, with an intricate anatomy and unique structural and functional …

Neural activity either enhances or impairs de novo synaptogenesis and circuit integration of
neurons, but how this activity is mechanistically relayed in the adult brain is largely …

Most functions of the nervous system depend on neuronal and glial morphology. Continuous
advances in microscopic imaging and tracing software have provided an increasingly …

Migraine is a complex brain disorder, characterized by attacks of unilateral headache and
global dysfunction in multisensory information processing, whose underlying cellular and …

Rodents use their whiskers to explore the environment, and the superior colliculus is part of
the neural circuits that process this sensorimotor information. Cells in the intermediate layers …

Background The cortical slow (∼ 1 Hz) oscillation (SO), which is thought to play an active
role in the consolidation of memories, is a brain rhythm characteristic of slow-wave sleep …