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 …

Multiregion neuronal activity: the forest and the trees

TA Machado, IV Kauvar, K Deisseroth - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
The past decade has witnessed remarkable advances in the simultaneous measurement of
neuronal activity across many brain regions, enabling fundamentally new explorations of the …

[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 …

Autism genes converge on asynchronous development of shared neuron classes

B Paulsen, S Velasco, AJ Kedaigle, M Pigoni… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Genetic risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with hundreds of genes
spanning a wide range of biological functions,,,,–. The alterations in the human brain …

Norepinephrine links astrocytic activity to regulation of cortical state

ME Reitman, V Tse, X Mi, DD Willoughby… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cortical state, defined by population-level neuronal activity patterns, determines sensory
perception. While arousal-associated neuromodulators—including norepinephrine (NE) …

Neuropixels 2.0: A miniaturized high-density probe for stable, long-term brain recordings

NA Steinmetz, C Aydin, A Lebedeva, M Okun… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Electrode arrays based on complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
silicon fabrication technology, such as Neuropixels probes, have enabled recordings of …

Negative feedback control of neuronal activity by microglia

A Badimon, HJ Strasburger, P Ayata, X Chen, A Nair… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Microglia, the brain's resident macrophages, help to regulate brain function by removing
dying neurons, pruning non-functional synapses, and producing ligands that support …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale two-photon calcium imaging in freely moving mice

W Zong, HA Obenhaus, ER Skytøen, H Eneqvist… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
We developed a miniaturized two-photon microscope (MINI2P) for fast, high-resolution,
multiplane calcium imaging of over 1,000 neurons at a time in freely moving mice. With a …

Fos ensembles encode and shape stable spatial maps in the hippocampus

NL Pettit, EL Yap, ME Greenberg, CD Harvey - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
In the hippocampus, spatial maps are formed by place cells while contextual memories are
thought to be encoded as engrams,,,,–. Engrams are typically identified by expression of the …

A brainstem map for visceral sensations

C Ran, JC Boettcher, JA Kaye, CE Gallori, SD Liberles - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The nervous system uses various coding strategies to process sensory inputs. For example,
the olfactory system uses large receptor repertoires and is wired to recognize diverse …