Pushing the frontiers: tools for monitoring neurotransmitters and neuromodulators

Z Wu, D Lin, Y Li - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Neurotransmitters and neuromodulators have a wide range of key roles throughout the
nervous system. However, their dynamics in both health and disease have been challenging …

Imaging neurotransmitter and neuromodulator dynamics in vivo with genetically encoded indicators

BL Sabatini, L Tian - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
The actions of neuromodulation are thought to mediate the ability of the mammalian brain to
dynamically adjust its functional state in response to changes in the environment. Altered …

Incorporating neuro-inspired adaptability for continual learning in artificial intelligence

L Wang, X Zhang, Q Li, M Zhang, H Su, J Zhu… - Nature Machine …, 2023 - nature.com
Continual learning aims to empower artificial intelligence with strong adaptability to the real
world. For this purpose, a desirable solution should properly balance memory stability with …

Next-generation GRAB sensors for monitoring dopaminergic activity in vivo

F Sun, J Zhou, B Dai, T Qian, J Zeng, X Li, Y Zhuo… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Dopamine (DA) plays a critical role in the brain, and the ability to directly measure
dopaminergic activity is essential for understanding its physiological functions. We therefore …

The connectome of the adult Drosophila mushroom body provides insights into function

F Li, JW Lindsey, EC Marin, N Otto, M Dreher… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Making inferences about the computations performed by neuronal circuits from synapse-
level connectivity maps is an emerging opportunity in neuroscience. The mushroom body …

Multisensory learning binds neurons into a cross-modal memory engram

Z Okray, PF Jacob, C Stern, K Desmond, N Otto… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Associating multiple sensory cues with objects and experience is a fundamental brain
process that improves object recognition and memory performance. However, neural …

Compartment-specific tuning of dendritic feature selectivity by intracellular Ca2+ release

JK O'Hare, KC Gonzalez, SA Herrlinger, Y Hirabayashi… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Dendritic calcium signaling is central to neural plasticity mechanisms that allow animals to
adapt to the environment. Intracellular calcium release (ICR) from the endoplasmic reticulum …

Dopamine promotes head direction plasticity during orienting movements

YE Fisher, M Marquis, I D'Alessandro, RI Wilson - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
In neural networks that store information in their connection weights, there is a tradeoff
between sensitivity and stability,. Connections must be plastic to incorporate new …

Converting an allocentric goal into an egocentric steering signal

P Mussells Pires, L Zhang, V Parache, LF Abbott… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Neuronal signals that are relevant for spatial navigation have been described in many
species,,,,,,,,–. However, a circuit-level understanding of how such signals interact to guide …

The Drosophila Mushroom Body: From Architecture to Algorithm in a Learning Circuit

MN Modi, Y Shuai, GC Turner - Annual review of neuroscience, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The Drosophila brain contains a relatively simple circuit for forming Pavlovian associations,
yet it achieves many operations common across memory systems. Recent advances have …