Synaptic plasticity forms and functions

JC Magee, C Grienberger - Annual review of neuroscience, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Synaptic plasticity, the activity-dependent change in neuronal connection strength, has long
been considered an important component of learning and memory. Computational and …

Wireless and battery-free technologies for neuroengineering

SM Won, L Cai, P Gutruf, JA Rogers - Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2023 - nature.com
Tethered and battery-powered devices that interface with neural tissues can restrict natural
motions and prevent social interactions in animal models, thereby limiting the utility of these …

Human spatial navigation

AD Ekstrom, RS Rosenbaum, VD Bohbot, HJ Spiers - 2018 - torrossa.com
We would like to thank our families for their patience and understanding as we took time off
to work on this book. We dedicate this book to Dr. Howard Eichenbaum, a leader in the field …

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 …

What the metaverse is (really) and why we need to know about it

G Riva, BK Wiederhold - Cyberpsychology, behavior, and social …, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Major technology companies are investing significant sums of money in the creation of the
metaverse whose main feature will be the fusion between the virtual world and the physical …

The neuromechanics of animal locomotion: From biology to robotics and back

P Ramdya, AJ Ijspeert - Science Robotics, 2023 - science.org
Robotics and neuroscience are sister disciplines that both aim to understand how agile,
efficient, and robust locomotion can be achieved in autonomous agents. Robotics has …

All-optical physiology resolves a synaptic basis for behavioral timescale plasticity

LZ Fan, DK Kim, JH Jennings, H Tian, PY Wang… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Learning has been associated with modifications of synaptic and circuit properties, but the
precise changes storing information in mammals have remained largely unclear. We …

[HTML][HTML] A transcriptomic axis predicts state modulation of cortical interneurons

S Bugeon, J Duffield, M Dipoppa, A Ritoux, I Prankerd… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Transcriptomics has revealed that cortical inhibitory neurons exhibit a great diversity of fine
molecular subtypes,,,,–, but it is not known whether these subtypes have correspondingly …

Quantifying behavior to understand the brain

TD Pereira, JW Shaevitz, M Murthy - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Over the past years, numerous methods have emerged to automate the quantification of
animal behavior at a resolution not previously imaginable. This has opened up a new field of …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted activation of hippocampal place cells drives memory-guided spatial behavior

NTM Robinson, LAL Descamps, LE Russell… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The hippocampus is crucial for spatial navigation and episodic memory formation.
Hippocampal place cells exhibit spatially selective activity within an environment and have …