Goods and bads of the endocannabinoid system as a therapeutic target: lessons learned after 30 years

M Maccarrone, V Di Marzo, J Gertsch, U Grether… - Pharmacological …, 2023 - Elsevier
The cannabis derivative marijuana is the most widely used recreational drug in the Western
world and is consumed by an estimated 83 million individuals (∼ 3% of the world …

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 …

Rastermap: a discovery method for neural population recordings

C Stringer, L Zhong, A Syeda, F Du, M Kesa… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Neurophysiology has long progressed through exploratory experiments and chance
discoveries. Anecdotes abound of researchers listening to spikes in real time and noticing …

[HTML][HTML] Cannabidiol modulates excitatory-inhibitory ratio to counter hippocampal hyperactivity

EC Rosenberg, S Chamberland, M Bazelot, ER Nebet… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Summary Cannabidiol (CBD), a non-euphoric component of cannabis, reduces seizures in
multiple forms of pediatric epilepsies, but the mechanism (s) of anti-seizure action remain …

Fluorescence imaging of neural activity, neurochemical dynamics, and drug-specific receptor conformation with genetically encoded sensors

C Dong, Y Zheng, K Long-Iyer… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Recent advances in fluorescence imaging permit large-scale recording of neural activity and
dynamics of neurochemical release with unprecedented resolution in behaving animals …

Astrocyte regulation of cerebral blood flow in health and disease

A Mishra, GR Gordon… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Astrocytes play an important role in controlling microvascular diameter and regulating local
cerebral blood flow (CBF) in several physiological and pathological scenarios …

[HTML][HTML] A cortico-amygdala neural substrate for endocannabinoid modulation of fear extinction

O Gunduz-Cinar, LI Castillo, M **a, E Van Leer… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Preclinical and clinical studies implicate endocannabinoids (eCBs) in fear extinction, but the
underlying neural circuit basis of these actions is unclear. Here, we employed in vivo …

Presynaptic nanoscale components of retrograde synaptic signaling

B Barti, B Dudok, K Kenesei, M Zöldi, V Miczán… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
While our understanding of the nanoscale architecture of anterograde synaptic transmission
is rapidly expanding, the qualitative and quantitative molecular principles underlying distinct …

T-DOpE probes reveal sensitivity of hippocampal oscillations to cannabinoids in behaving mice

J Kim, H Huang, ET Gilbert, KC Arndt… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding the neural basis of behavior requires monitoring and manipulating
combinations of physiological elements and their interactions in behaving animals. We …

Deficiency in endocannabinoid synthase DAGLB contributes to early onset Parkinsonism and murine nigral dopaminergic neuron dysfunction

Z Liu, N Yang, J Dong, W Tian, L Chang, J Ma… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Endocannabinoid (eCB), 2-arachidonoyl-glycerol (2-AG), the most abundant eCB in
the brain, regulates diverse neural functions. Here we linked multiple homozygous loss-of …