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 …

Two-photon calcium imaging of neuronal activity

C Grienberger, A Giovannucci, W Zeiger… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
In vivo two-photon calcium imaging (2PCI) is a technique used for recording neuronal
activity in the intact brain. It is based on the principle that, when neurons fire action …

[HTML][HTML] Fast and sensitive GCaMP calcium indicators for imaging neural populations

Y Zhang, M Rózsa, Y Liang, D Bushey, Z Wei, J Zheng… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Calcium imaging with protein-based indicators, is widely used to follow neural activity in
intact nervous systems, but current protein sensors report neural activity at timescales much …

Electrical and synaptic integration of glioma into neural circuits

HS Venkatesh, W Morishita, AC Geraghty, D Silverbush… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
High-grade gliomas are lethal brain cancers whose progression is robustly regulated by
neuronal activity. Activity-regulated release of growth factors promotes glioma growth, but …

Geometry of abstract learned knowledge in the hippocampus

EH Nieh, M Schottdorf, NW Freeman, RJ Low… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Hippocampal neurons encode physical variables,,,,,–such as space or auditory frequency in
cognitive maps. In addition, functional magnetic resonance imaging studies in humans have …

Cortical layer–specific critical dynamics triggering perception

JH Marshel, YS Kim, TA Machado, S Quirin, B Benson… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Perceptual experiences in mammals may arise from patterns of neural
circuit activity in cerebral cortex. For example, primary visual cortex (V1) is causally capable …

Dissociable hindbrain GLP1R circuits for satiety and aversion

KP Huang, AA Acosta, MY Ghidewon, AD McKnight… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The most successful obesity therapeutics, glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP1R)
agonists, cause aversive responses such as nausea and vomiting,, effects that may …

[HTML][HTML] NoRMCorre: An online algorithm for piecewise rigid motion correction of calcium imaging data

EA Pnevmatikakis, A Giovannucci - Journal of neuroscience methods, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Motion correction is a challenging pre-processing problem that arises early in
the analysis pipeline of calcium imaging data sequences. The motion artifacts in two-photon …

Suite2p: beyond 10,000 neurons with standard two-photon microscopy

M Pachitariu, C Stringer, S Schröder, M Dipoppa… - BioRxiv, 2016 - biorxiv.org
The combination of two-photon microscopy recordings and powerful calcium-dependent
fluorescent sensors enables simultaneous recording of unprecedentedly large populations …

CaImAn an open source tool for scalable calcium imaging data analysis

A Giovannucci, J Friedrich, P Gunn, J Kalfon, BL Brown… - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Advances in fluorescence microscopy enable monitoring larger brain areas in-vivo with finer
time resolution. The resulting data rates require reproducible analysis pipelines that are …