Excitation-inhibition balance as a framework for investigating mechanisms in neuropsychiatric disorders

VS Sohal, JLR Rubenstein - Molecular psychiatry, 2019‏ - nature.com
Abstract In 2003 Rubenstein and Merzenich hypothesized that some forms of Autism (ASD)
might be caused by a reduction in signal-to-noise in key neural circuits, which could be the …

[HTML][HTML] Sleep spindles: mechanisms and functions

LMJ Fernandez, A Lüthi - Physiological reviews, 2020‏ - journals.physiology.org
Sleep spindles are burstlike signals in the electroencephalogram (EEG) of the slee**
mammalian brain and electrical surface correlates of neuronal oscillations in thalamus. As …

Breathing coordinates cortico-hippocampal dynamics in mice during offline states

N Karalis, A Sirota - Nature communications, 2022‏ - nature.com
Network dynamics have been proposed as a mechanistic substrate for the information
transfer across cortical and hippocampal circuits. However, little is known about the …

Consciousness and sleep

G Tononi, M Boly, C Cirelli - Neuron, 2024‏ - cell.com
Sleep is a universal, essential biological process. It is also an invaluable window on
consciousness. It tells us that consciousness can be lost but also that it can be regained, in …

Neuromodulation of brain state and behavior

DA McCormick, DB Nestvogel… - Annual review of …, 2020‏ - annualreviews.org
Neural activity and behavior are both notoriously variable, with responses differing widely
between repeated presentation of identical stimuli or trials. Recent results in humans and …

Colloquium: Criticality and dynamical scaling in living systems

MA Munoz - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018‏ - APS
A celebrated and controversial hypothesis suggests that some biological systems—parts,
aspects, or groups of them—may extract important functional benefits from operating at the …

Psychedelics

DE Nichols - Pharmacological reviews, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Psychedelics (serotonergic hallucinogens) are powerful psychoactive substances that alter
perception and mood and affect numerous cognitive processes. They are generally …

Cellular mechanisms of conscious processing

J Aru, M Suzuki, ME Larkum - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2020‏ - cell.com
Recent breakthroughs in neurobiology indicate that the time is ripe to understand how
cellular-level mechanisms are related to conscious experience. Here, we highlight the …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstruction and simulation of neocortical microcircuitry

H Markram, E Muller, S Ramaswamy, MW Reimann… - Cell, 2015‏ - cell.com
We present a first-draft digital reconstruction of the microcircuitry of somatosensory cortex of
juvenile rat. The reconstruction uses cellular and synaptic organizing principles to …

Oscillating circuitries in the slee** brain

AR Adamantidis, C Gutierrez Herrera… - Nature Reviews …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Brain activity during sleep is characterized by circuit-specific oscillations, including slow
waves, spindles and theta waves, which are nested in thalamocortical or hippocampal …