Chemogenetic tools for causal cellular and neuronal biology

D Atasoy, SM Sternson - Physiological reviews, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Chemogenetic technologies enable selective pharmacological control of specific cell
populations. An increasing number of approaches have been developed that modulate …

Neocortical synaptic engrams for remote contextual memories

JH Lee, WB Kim, EH Park, JH Cho - Nature Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
While initial encoding of contextual memories involves the strengthening of hippocampal
circuits, these memories progressively mature to stabilized forms in neocortex and become …

The neurocircuitry of remote cued fear memory

HC Bergstrom - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Memories of threatening, fear-evoking events can persist even over a lifetime. While fear
memory is widely considered to be a highly persistent and durable form of memory, its …

Prefrontal pathways provide top-down control of memory for sequences of events

M Jayachandran, SB Linley, M Schlecht, SV Mahler… - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
We remember our lives as sequences of events, but it is unclear how these memories are
controlled during retrieval. In rats, the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is positioned to …

The quest for the hippocampal memory engram: From theories to experimental evidence

O Miry, J Li, L Chen - Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
More than a century after Richard Semon's theoretical proposal of the memory engram,
technological advancements have finally enabled experimental access to engram cells and …