Biological underpinnings for lifelong learning machines

D Kudithipudi, M Aguilar-Simon, J Babb… - Nature Machine …, 2022 - nature.com
Biological organisms learn from interactions with their environment throughout their lifetime.
For artificial systems to successfully act and adapt in the real world, it is desirable to similarly …

Astrocyte crosstalk in CNS inflammation

M Linnerbauer, MA Wheeler, FJ Quintana - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Astrocytes control multiple processes in the nervous system in health and disease. It is now
clear that specific astrocyte subsets or activation states are associated with specific genomic …

Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain

S Dorkenwald, A Matsliah, AR Sterling, P Schlegel… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Connections between neurons can be mapped by acquiring and analysing electron
microscopic brain images. In recent years, this approach has been applied to chunks of …

A multimodal cell census and atlas of the mammalian primary motor cortex

Principal manuscript editors, Analysis coordination… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Here we report the generation of a multimodal cell census and atlas of the mammalian
primary motor cortex as the initial product of the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network …

[HTML][HTML] Spatially resolved cell atlas of the mouse primary motor cortex by MERFISH

M Zhang, SW Eichhorn, B Zingg, Z Yao, K Cotter… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
A mammalian brain is composed of numerous cell types organized in an intricate manner to
form functional neural circuits. Single-cell RNA sequencing allows systematic identification …

Morphological diversity of single neurons in molecularly defined cell types

H Peng, P ** reveals that engrams for a single memory are distributed across multiple brain regions
DS Roy, YG Park, ME Kim, Y Zhang, SK Ogawa… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Neuronal ensembles that hold specific memory (memory engrams) have been identified in
the hippocampus, amygdala, or cortex. However, it has been hypothesized that engrams of …

Single-neuron projectome of mouse prefrontal cortex

L Gao, S Liu, L Gou, Y Hu, Y Liu, L Deng, D Ma… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Prefrontal cortex (PFC) is the cognitive center that integrates and regulates global brain
activity. However, the whole-brain organization of PFC axon projections remains poorly …

A unifying perspective on neural manifolds and circuits for cognition

C Langdon, M Genkin, TA Engel - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Two different perspectives have informed efforts to explain the link between the brain and
behaviour. One approach seeks to identify neural circuit elements that carry out specific …

The Allen mouse brain common coordinate framework: a 3D reference atlas

Q Wang, SL Ding, Y Li, J Royall, D Feng, P Lesnar… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Recent large-scale collaborations are generating major surveys of cell types and
connections in the mouse brain, collecting large amounts of data across modalities, spatial …