Cancer neuroscience: State of the field, emerging directions

F Winkler, HS Venkatesh, M Amit, T Batchelor, IE Demir… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The nervous system governs both ontogeny and oncology. Regulating organogenesis
during development, maintaining homeostasis, and promoting plasticity throughout life, the …

Central regulation of stress-evoked peripheral immune responses

KL Chan, WC Poller, FK Swirski… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Stress-linked psychiatric disorders, including anxiety and major depressive disorder, are
associated with systemic inflammation. Recent studies have reported stress-induced …

Oligodendrocytes: Myelination, plasticity, and axonal support

M Simons, EM Gibson, KA Nave - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The myelination of axons has evolved to enable fast and efficient transduction of electrical
signals in the vertebrate nervous system. Acting as an electric insulator, the myelin sheath is …

Single-nucleus transcriptomics of the prefrontal cortex in major depressive disorder implicates oligodendrocyte precursor cells and excitatory neurons

C Nagy, M Maitra, A Tanti, M Suderman… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) has an enormous impact on global disease burden,
affecting millions of people worldwide and ranking as a leading cause of disability for almost …

Myelin in the central nervous system: structure, function, and pathology

C Stadelmann, S Timmler… - Physiological …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
Oligodendrocytes generate multiple layers of myelin membrane around axons of the central
nervous system to enable fast and efficient nerve conduction. Until recently, saltatory nerve …

Myelin plasticity: sculpting circuits in learning and memory

W **n, JR Chan - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Throughout our lifespan, new sensory experiences and learning continually shape our
neuronal circuits to form new memories. Plasticity at the level of synapses has been …

Preservation of a remote fear memory requires new myelin formation

S Pan, SR Mayoral, HS Choi, JR Chan… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Experience-dependent myelination is hypothesized to shape neural circuit function and
subsequent behavioral output. Using a contextual fear memory task in mice, we demonstrate …

Myelin remodeling through experience-dependent oligodendrogenesis in the adult somatosensory cortex

EG Hughes, JL Orthmann-Murphy, AJ Langseth… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Oligodendrocyte generation in the adult CNS provides a means to adapt the properties of
circuits to changes in life experience. However, little is known about the dynamics of …

Sex-specific transcriptional signatures in human depression

B Labonté, O Engmann, I Purushothaman, C Menard… - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a leading cause of disease burden worldwide. While the
incidence, symptoms and treatment of MDD all point toward major sex differences, the …

Periods of synchronized myelin changes shape brain function and plasticity

O de Faria Jr, H Pivonkova, B Varga, S Timmler… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Myelin, a lipid membrane that wraps axons, enabling fast neurotransmission and metabolic
support to axons, is conventionally thought of as a static structure that is set early in …