Genetics and pathogenesis of Parkinson's syndrome

H Ye, LA Robak, M Yu, M Cykowski… - Annual Review of …, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
Parkinson's disease (PD) is clinically, pathologically, and genetically heterogeneous,
resisting distillation to a single, cohesive disorder. Instead, each affected individual develops …

Networking brainstem and basal ganglia circuits for movement

S Arber, RM Costa - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022‏ - nature.com
The execution and learning of diverse movements involve neuronal networks distributed
throughout the nervous system. The brainstem and basal ganglia are key for processing …

Spontaneous behaviour is structured by reinforcement without explicit reward

JE Markowitz, WF Gillis, M Jay, J Wood, RW Harris… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Spontaneous animal behaviour is built from action modules that are concatenated by the
brain into sequences,. However, the neural mechanisms that guide the composition of …

Disruption of mitochondrial complex I induces progressive parkinsonism

P González-Rodríguez, E Zampese, KA Stout… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
Loss of functional mitochondrial complex I (MCI) in the dopaminergic neurons of the
substantia nigra is a hallmark of Parkinson's disease. Yet, whether this change contributes to …

Piezoelectric nanomaterials activated by ultrasound: the pathway from discovery to future clinical adoption

A Cafarelli, A Marino, L Vannozzi, J Puigmartí-Luis… - ACS …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Electrical stimulation has shown great promise in biomedical applications, such as
regenerative medicine, neuromodulation, and cancer treatment. Yet, the use of electrical …

Computational psychiatry: from synapses to sentience

K Friston - Molecular psychiatry, 2023‏ - nature.com
This review considers computational psychiatry from a particular viewpoint: namely, a
commitment to explaining psychopathology in terms of pathophysiology. It rests on the …

Circuits and functions of the lateral habenula in health and in disease

H Hu, Y Cui, Y Yang - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020‏ - nature.com
The past decade has witnessed exponentially growing interest in the lateral habenula (LHb)
owing to new discoveries relating to its critical role in regulating negatively motivated …

Spatial and temporal scales of dopamine transmission

C Liu, P Goel, PS Kaeser - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021‏ - nature.com
Dopamine is a prototypical neuromodulator that controls circuit function through G protein-
coupled receptor signalling. Neuromodulators are volume transmitters, with release followed …

Striatal circuits for reward learning and decision-making

J Cox, IB Witten - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2019‏ - nature.com
The striatum is essential for learning which actions lead to reward and for implementing
those actions. Decades of experimental and theoretical work have led to several influential …

Dopamine: functions, signaling, and association with neurological diseases

MO Klein, DS Battagello, AR Cardoso… - Cellular and molecular …, 2019‏ - Springer
The dopaminergic system plays important roles in neuromodulation, such as motor control,
motivation, reward, cognitive function, maternal, and reproductive behaviors. Dopamine is a …