Advanced near‐infrared light approaches for neuroimaging and neuromodulation

H Yin, W Jiang, Y Liu, D Zhang, F Wu, Y Zhang, C Li… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Almost all physiological processes of animals are controlled by the brain, including
language, cognitive, memory, learning, emotion and so forth. Minor brain dysfunction usually …

Depression pathophysiology: Astrocyte mitochondrial melatonergic pathway as crucial hub

G Anderson - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is widely accepted as having a heterogenous
pathophysiology involving a complex mixture of systemic and CNS processes. A …

A spatial threshold for astrocyte calcium surge

J Lines, A Baraibar, C Nanclares, ED Martín, J Aguilar… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Astrocytes are active cells involved in brain function through the bidirectional communication
with neurons, in which astrocyte calcium plays a crucial role. Synaptically evoked calcium …

Shining the light on astrocytic ensembles

L Delgado, M Navarrete - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
While neurons have traditionally been considered the primary players in information
processing, the role of astrocytes in this mechanism has largely been overlooked due to …

Astrocyte ensembles manipulated with AstroLight tune cue-motivated behavior

I Serra, C Martín-Monteagudo, J Sánchez Romero… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Astrocytes, dynamic cells crucial to brain function, have traditionally been overshadowed by
the emphasis on neuronal activity in regulating behavior. Unlike neurons, which are …

[HTML][HTML] Do astrocytes act as immune cells after pediatric TBI?

PE Panchenko, L Hippauf, JP Konsman… - Neurobiology of disease, 2023 - Elsevier
Astrocytes are in contact with the vasculature, neurons, oligodendrocytes and microglia,
forming a local network with various functions critical for brain homeostasis. One of the …

Enhanced detection sensitivity of neuronal activity patterns using CaMPARI1 vs. CaMPARI2

A Das, D Margevicius, J Borovicka, J Icardi… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Calcium-modulated photoactivatable ratiometric integrator (CaMPARI) is a calcium ion
(Ca2+)-and light-dependent genetically encoded fluorescent activity integrator that can …

[HTML][HTML] Astrocytic G Protein-Coupled Receptors in Drug Addiction

AK Zinsmaier, EJ Nestler, Y Dong - Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding the cellular mechanisms of drug addiction remains a key task in current brain
research. While neuron-based mechanisms have been extensively explored over the past …

Astrocytes and Memory: Implications for the Treatment of Memory-related Disorders

J Wang, P Cheng, Y Qu, G Zhu - Current Neuropharmacology, 2024 - benthamdirect.com
Memory refers to the imprint accumulated in the brain by life experiences and represents the
basis for humans to engage in advanced psychological activities such as thinking and …

Architecture of a Cortex Inspired Hierarchical Event Recaller

VP Varona - arxiv preprint arxiv:2405.02371, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper proposes a new approach to Machine Learning (ML) that focuses on
unsupervised continuous context-dependent learning of complex patterns. Although the …