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 …

Genetically encoded indicators of neuronal activity

MZ Lin, MJ Schnitzer - Nature neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
Experimental efforts to understand how the brain represents, stores and processes
information require high-fidelity recordings of multiple different forms of neural activity within …

The connectome of an insect brain

M Winding, BD Pedigo, CL Barnes, HG Patsolic, Y Park… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Brains contain networks of interconnected neurons and so knowing the network architecture
is essential for understanding brain function. We therefore mapped the synaptic-resolution …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular topography of an entire nervous system

SR Taylor, G Santpere, A Weinreb, A Barrett, MB Reilly… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
We have produced gene expression profiles of all 302 neurons of the C. elegans nervous
system that match the single-cell resolution of its anatomy and wiring diagram. Our results …

[HTML][HTML] Neural signal propagation atlas of Caenorhabditis elegans

F Randi, AK Sharma, S Dvali, AM Leifer - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Establishing how neural function emerges from network properties is a fundamental problem
in neuroscience. Here, to better understand the relationship between the structure and the …

Mobile cognition: imaging the human brain in the 'real world'

M Stangl, SL Maoz, N Suthana - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Cognitive neuroscience studies in humans have enabled decades of impactful discoveries
but have primarily been limited to recording the brain activity of immobile participants in a …

The emergence and influence of internal states

SW Flavell, N Gogolla, M Lovett-Barron, M Zelikowsky - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Animal behavior is shaped by a variety of" internal states"—partially hidden variables that
profoundly shape perception, cognition, and action. The neural basis of internal states, such …

Computational neuroethology: a call to action

SR Datta, DJ Anderson, K Branson, P Perona, A Leifer - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
The brain is worthy of study because it is in charge of behavior. A flurry of recent technical
advances in measuring and quantifying naturalistic behaviors provide an important …

Real-time volumetric reconstruction of biological dynamics with light-field microscopy and deep learning

Z Wang, L Zhu, H Zhang, G Li, C Yi, Y Li, Y Yang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Light-field microscopy has emerged as a technique of choice for high-speed volumetric
imaging of fast biological processes. However, artifacts, nonuniform resolution and a slow …

NeuroPAL: a multicolor atlas for whole-brain neuronal identification in C. elegans

E Yemini, A Lin, A Nejatbakhsh, E Varol, R Sun… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Comprehensively resolving neuronal identities in whole-brain images is a major challenge.
We achieve this in C. elegans by engineering a multicolor transgene called NeuroPAL (a …