Engram neurons: Encoding, consolidation, retrieval, and forgetting of memory

A Guskjolen, MS Cembrowski - Molecular psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Tremendous strides have been made in our understanding of the neurobiological substrates
of memory–the so-called memory “engram”. Here, we integrate recent progress in the …

Modulation of neural co-firing to enhance network transmission and improve motor function after stroke

K Ganguly, P Khanna, RJ Morecraft, DJ Lin - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Stroke is a leading cause of disability. While neurotechnology has shown promise for
improving upper limb recovery after stroke, efficacy in clinical trials has been variable. Our …

Cortical–hippocampal coupling during manifold exploration in motor cortex

J Kim, A Joshi, L Frank, K Ganguly - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Systems consolidation—a process for long-term memory stabilization—has been
hypothesized to occur in two stages,,–. Whereas new memories require the hippocampus …

Repetition dynamically and rapidly increases cortical, but not hippocampal, offline reactivation

W Yu, A Zadbood, AJH Chanales, L Davachi - Proceedings of the National …, 2024 - pnas.org
No sooner is an experience over than its neural representation begins to be transformed
through memory reactivation during offline periods. The lion's share of prior research has …

How our understanding of memory replay evolves

ZS Chen, MA Wilson - Journal of Neurophysiology, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Memory reactivations and replay, widely reported in the hippocampus and cortex across
species, have been implicated in memory consolidation, planning, and spatial and skill …

[HTML][HTML] Robust enhancement of motor sequence learning with 4 mA transcranial electric stimulation

G Hsu, AD Shereen, LG Cohen, LC Parra - Brain stimulation, 2023 - Elsevier
Background and objectives Motor learning experiments with transcranial direct current
stimulation (tDCS) at 2 mA have produced mixed results. We hypothesize that tDCS boosts …

Applied strategies of neuroplasticity

BP Johnson, LG Cohen - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2023 - Elsevier
Various levels of somatotopic organization are present throughout the human nervous
system. However, this organization can change when needed based on environmental …

Memory leaks: information shared across memory systems

EM Robertson - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2022 - cell.com
The brain is highly segregated. Multiple mechanisms ensure that different types of memories
are processed independently. Nonetheless, information leaks out across these memory …

Time is of the essence: neural codes, synchronies, oscillations, architectures

P Cariani, JM Baker - Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Time is of the essence in how neural codes, synchronies, and oscillations might function in
encoding, representation, transmission, integration, storage, and retrieval of information in …

Maintenance of procedural motor memory across brief rest periods requires the hippocampus

D Mylonas, AC Schapiro, M Verfaellie… - Journal of …, 2024 - Soc Neuroscience
Research on the role of the hippocampus in memory acquisition has generally focused on
active learning. But to understand memory, it is at least as important to understand …