Kavli Affiliate: Anders Dale | Authors: Dennis van der Meer, Jakub Kopal, Alexey Shadrin, Julian Fuhrer, Jaroslav Rokicki, Sara Stinson, Srdjan Djurovic, Anders Dale and Ole Andreassen | Summary: Background Metabolic processes form the basis of the development, functioning and maintenance of the brain. Despite accumulating evidence of the vital role of metabolism in brain […]
Kavli Affiliate: John Reynolds | Authors: Emily S King, Jamie L Beros, Hakuei Fujiyama, John N Reynolds and Alexander D Tang | Summary: Background: Stroke is a leading cause of disability and stroke-induced changes in cortical excitability are thought to impede functional recovery. Identifying cellular targets that contribute to maladaptive excitability holds great potential for […]
Kavli Affiliate: Eiman Azim and Tatyana Sharpee | Authors: Mingchen Yao, Akira Nagamori, Eiman Azim, Tatyana Sharpee, Martyn Goulding, David Golomb and Graziana Gatto | Summary: Rhythmic motor behaviors are generated by neural networks termed central pattern generators (CPGs). Although locomotor CPGs have been extensively characterized, it remains unknown how the neuronal populations composing them […]
Kavli Affiliate: John Reynolds | Authors: Yan-Feng Zhang, Jean-Philippe Dufour, Peter Zatka-Haas, Peter Redgrave, Melony J Black, Armin Lak, Ed Mann, Stephanie J Cragg, Wickliffe Abraham and John NJ Reynolds | Summary: In classical Pavlovian conditioning, it is well-established that midbrain dopamine neurons respond to conditioned stimuli (CS) that predict a reward. However, how the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Takaki Komiyama | Authors: An Wu, Qiyu Chen, Bin Yu, Soyoung Chae, Zijing Tan, Assaf Ramot and Takaki Komiyama | Summary: During the execution of learned motor skills, the neural population in the layer 2/3 (L2/3) of the primary motor cortex (M1) expresses a reproducible spatiotemporal activity pattern. It is debated whether M1 […]
Kavli Affiliate: Terrence Sejnowski | Authors: Thomas M Bartol, Mariam Ordyan, Terrence J Sejnowski, Padmini Rangamani and Mary B Kennedy | Summary: Long-term potentiation (LTP) is a biochemical process that underlies learning in excitatory glutamatergic synapses in the Central Nervous System (CNS). The critical early driver of LTP is autophosphorylation of the abundant postsynaptic enzyme, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Eiman Azim | Authors: Jake Lustig, Alexander Lammers, Julia Kaiser, Payal Patel, Aidan Raghu, James M. Conner, Phong Nguyen, Eiman Azim and Vibhu Sahni | Summary: The corticospinal tract (CST) facilitates skilled, precise movements, which necessitates that subcerebral projection neurons (SCPN) establish segmentally specific connectivity with brainstem and spinal circuits. Developmental molecular delineation […]
Kavli Affiliate: Yishi Jin | Authors: Erin M Ritchie, Siming Zhong, Qianyi Pu, Yunbo Li, Binhai Zheng and Yishi Jin | Summary: The conserved MAP3K12/Dual Leucine Zipper Kinase (DLK) plays versatile roles in neuronal development, axon injury and stress responses, and neurodegeneration, depending on cell-type and cellular contexts. Emerging evidence implicates abnormal DLK signaling in […]
Kavli Affiliate: Deanna J. Greene and Jeremy Willsey | Authors: Shefali S. Rai, Kate J. Godfrey, Kirk Graff, Ryann Tansey, Daria Merrikh, Shelly Yin, Matthew Feigelis, Damion V. Demeter, Tamara Vanderwal, Deanna J. Greene and Signe L. Bray | Summary: functional connectivity (FC) measurements are important for robust and reproducible findings, yet pediatric functional magnetic […]
Kavli Affiliate: Cory Miller | Authors: Vikram Pal Singh, Jingwen Li, Jude Mitchell and Cory Miller | Summary: Our understanding of how vision functions as primates actively navigate the real-world is remarkably sparse. As most data have been limited to chaired and typically head-restrained animals, the synergistic interactions of different motor actions/plans inherent to active […]