The synaptic plasticity and memory hypothesis: encoding, storage and persistence

T Takeuchi, AJ Duszkiewicz… - … Transactions of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The synaptic plasticity and memory hypothesis asserts that activity-dependent synaptic
plasticity is induced at appropriate synapses during memory formation and is both …

Can structure predict function in the human brain?

CJ Honey, JP Thivierge, O Sporns - Neuroimage, 2010 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, scientific interest in the properties of large-scale spontaneous neural
dynamics has intensified. Concurrently, novel technologies have been developed for …

Noninvasive theta-burst stimulation of the human striatum enhances striatal activity and motor skill learning

MJ Wessel, E Beanato, T Popa, F Windel… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The stimulation of deep brain structures has thus far only been possible with invasive
methods. Transcranial electrical temporal interference stimulation (tTIS) is a novel …

Learning sculpts the spontaneous activity of the resting human brain

CM Lewis, A Baldassarre… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
The brain is not a passive sensory-motor analyzer driven by environmental stimuli, but
actively maintains ongoing representations that may be involved in the coding of expected …

Synaptic plasticity shapes brain connectivity: implications for network topology

M Stampanoni Bassi, E Iezzi, L Gilio… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Studies of brain network connectivity improved understanding on brain changes and
adaptation in response to different pathologies. Synaptic plasticity, the ability of neurons to …

Mechanisms of action and persistent neuroplasticity by drugs of abuse

ER Korpi, B den Hollander, U Farooq… - Pharmacological …, 2015 - Elsevier
Adaptation of the nervous system to different chemical and physiologic conditions is
important for the homeostasis of brain processes and for learning and remembering …

Finding influential nodes for integration in brain networks using optimal percolation theory

G Del Ferraro, A Moreno, B Min, F Morone… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Global integration of information in the brain results from complex interactions of segregated
brain networks. Identifying the most influential neuronal populations that efficiently bind …

Joint attention and brain functional connectivity in infants and toddlers

AT Eggebrecht, JT Elison, E Feczko, A Todorov… - Cerebral …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Initiating joint attention (IJA), the behavioral instigation of coordinated focus of 2 people on
an object, emerges over the first 2 years of life and supports social-communicative …

Brain function in carriers of a genome-wide supported bipolar disorder variant

S Erk, A Meyer-Lindenberg, K Schnell… - Archives of general …, 2010 - jamanetwork.com
Context The neural abnormalities underlying genetic risk for bipolar disorder, a severe,
common, and highly heritable psychiatric condition, are largely unknown. An opportunity to …

Theta-burst microstimulation in the human entorhinal area improves memory specificity

AS Titiz, MRH Hill, EA Mankin, ZM Aghajan, D Eliashiv… - elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
The hippocampus is critical for episodic memory, and synaptic changes induced by long-
term potentiation (LTP) are thought to underlie memory formation. In rodents, hippocampal …