Mixed selectivity: Cellular computations for complexity

KM Tye, EK Miller, FH Taschbach, MK Benna, M Rigotti… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
The property of mixed selectivity has been discussed at a computational level and offers a
strategy to maximize computational power by adding versatility to the functional role of each …

The lateral thalamus: a bridge between multisensory processing and naturalistic behaviors

M Yang, D Keller, A Dobolyi, S Valtcheva - Trends in Neurosciences, 2024 - cell.com
The lateral thalamus (LT) receives input from primary sensory nuclei and responds to
multimodal stimuli. The LT is also involved in regulating innate and social behaviors through …

[HTML][HTML] Excitatory synaptic structural abnormalities produced by templated aggregation of α-syn in the basolateral amygdala

NZ Gcwensa, DL Russell, KY Long… - Neurobiology of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Parkinson's disease (PD) and Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) are characterized by
neuronal α-synuclein (α-syn) inclusions termed Lewy Pathology, which are abundant in the …

Potentiation of cholinergic and corticofugal inputs to the lateral amygdala in threat learning

MM Asokan, Y Watanabe, EY Kimchi, DB Polley - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
The amygdala, cholinergic basal forebrain, and higher-order auditory cortex (HO-AC)
regulate brain-wide plasticity underlying auditory threat learning. Here, we perform multi …

Population coding of time-varying sounds in the nonlemniscal inferior colliculus

K Shi, GL Quass, MM Rogalla… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
The inferior colliculus (IC) of the midbrain is important for complex sound processing, such
as discriminating conspecific vocalizations and human speech. The IC's nonlemniscal …

Thalamic Stroke: An Opportunity to Study the Brain Mechanisms of Sleep–Wake and Cognition

I Filchenko, CLA Bassetti… - Clinical and Translational …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The thalamus, and its projections to the cerebral cortex, are crucial for regulating sleep
rhythms, such as sleep spindles, and for maintaining arousal and sleep homeostasis …

[HTML][HTML] Potentiated cholinergic and corticofugal inputs support reorganized sensory processing in the basolateral amygdala during auditory threat acquisition and …

MM Asokan, Y Watanabe, EY Kimchi, DB Polley - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Reappraising neutral stimuli as environmental threats reflects rapid and discriminative
changes in sensory processing within the basolateral amygdala (BLA). To understand how …

Amygdalostriatal transition zone neurons encode sustained valence to direct conditioned behaviors

F Mills, CR Lee, JR Howe, H Li, S Shao, MN Keisler… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
In order to respond appropriately to threats in the environment, the brain must rapidly
determine whether a stimulus is important and whether it is positive or negative, and then …

Neurotensin Modulates Emotional Valence Assignment in the Basolateral Amygdala Through Neuromodulator Gain

M Abudureheman, YH **ao, LZ Zeng, HY Geng - Neuroscience Bulletin, 2024 - Springer
Accepted: 13 June 2024© Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence
Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2024 accumbens (NAc) is associated with …

Impact of Alpha-Synuclein Aggregates on Synaptic Structure in the Amygdala

NZ Gcwensa - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Parkinson's disease is the most common motor neurodegenerative and is characterized by
intracellular inclusions of misfolded protein α-synuclein termed Lewy Pathology. At least …