Pushing the frontiers: tools for monitoring neurotransmitters and neuromodulators

Z Wu, D Lin, Y Li - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Neurotransmitters and neuromodulators have a wide range of key roles throughout the
nervous system. However, their dynamics in both health and disease have been challenging …

Large-scale neural recordings call for new insights to link brain and behavior

AE Urai, B Doiron, AM Leifer, AK Churchland - Nature neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Neuroscientists today can measure activity from more neurons than ever before, and are
facing the challenge of connecting these brain-wide neural recordings to computation and …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-animal pose estimation, identification and tracking with DeepLabCut

J Lauer, M Zhou, S Ye, W Menegas, S Schneider… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Estimating the pose of multiple animals is a challenging computer vision problem: frequent
interactions cause occlusions and complicate the association of detected keypoints to the …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale two-photon calcium imaging in freely moving mice

W Zong, HA Obenhaus, ER Skytøen, H Eneqvist… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
We developed a miniaturized two-photon microscope (MINI2P) for fast, high-resolution,
multiplane calcium imaging of over 1,000 neurons at a time in freely moving mice. With a …

[HTML][HTML] Wireless and battery-free technologies for neuroengineering

SM Won, L Cai, P Gutruf, JA Rogers - Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2023 - nature.com
Tethered and battery-powered devices that interface with neural tissues can restrict natural
motions and prevent social interactions in animal models, thereby limiting the utility of these …

Hippocampal neurogenesis confers stress resilience by inhibiting the ventral dentate gyrus

C Anacker, VM Luna, GS Stevens, A Millette, R Shores… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Adult neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus is highly regulated by
environmental influences, and functionally implicated in behavioural responses to stress …

Neuronal cell-type classification: challenges, opportunities and the path forward

H Zeng, JR Sanes - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Neurons have diverse molecular, morphological, connectional and functional properties. We
believe that the only realistic way to manage this complexity—and thereby pave the way for …

Dopamine neuron activity before action initiation gates and invigorates future movements

JA Da Silva, F Tecuapetla, V Paixão, RM Costa - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Deciding when and whether to move is critical for survival. Loss of dopamine neurons
(DANs) of the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc) in patients with Parkinson's disease …

[HTML][HTML] Fluorescence imaging of large-scale neural ensemble dynamics

TH Kim, MJ Schnitzer - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Recent progress in fluorescence imaging allows neuroscientists to observe the dynamics of
thousands of individual neurons, identified genetically or by their connectivity, across …

Recent advances in neurotechnologies with broad potential for neuroscience research

A Vázquez-Guardado, Y Yang, AJ Bandodkar… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Interest in deciphering the fundamental mechanisms and processes of the human mind
represents a central driving force in modern neuroscience research. Activities in support of …