Cell and circuit complexity of the external globus pallidus

CD Courtney, A Pamukcu, CS Chan - Nature neuroscience, 2023‏ - nature.com
The external globus pallidus (GPe) of the basal ganglia has been underappreciated owing
to poor understanding of its cells and circuits. It was assumed that the GPe consisted of a …

Updating the striatal–pallidal wiring diagram

LZ Fang, MC Creed - Nature neuroscience, 2024‏ - nature.com
The striatal and pallidal complexes are basal ganglia structures that orchestrate learning
and execution of flexible behavior. Models of how the basal ganglia subserve these …

Simple Behavioral Analysis (SimBA) as a platform for explainable machine learning in behavioral neuroscience

NL Goodwin, JJ Choong, S Hwang, K Pitts… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
The study of complex behaviors is often challenging when using manual annotation due to
the absence of quantifiable behavioral definitions and the subjective nature of behavioral …

Population-specific neuromodulation prolongs therapeutic benefits of deep brain stimulation

TA Spix, S Nanivadekar, N Toong, IM Kaplow, BR Isett… - Science, 2021‏ - science.org
Symptoms of neurological diseases emerge through the dysfunction of neural circuits whose
diffuse and intertwined architectures pose serious challenges for delivering therapies. Deep …

The indirect pathway of the basal ganglia promotes transient punishment but not motor suppression

BR Isett, KP Nguyen, JC Schwenk, JR Yurek… - Neuron, 2023‏ - cell.com
Optogenetic stimulation of Adora2a receptor-expressing spiny projection neurons (A2A-
SPNs) in the striatum drives locomotor suppression and transient punishment, results …

Learning critically drives parkinsonian motor deficits through imbalanced striatal pathway recruitment

THC Cheung, Y Ding, X Zhuang, UJ Kang - Proceedings of the National …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
Dopamine (DA) loss in Parkinson's disease (PD) causes debilitating motor deficits.
However, dopamine is also widely linked to reward prediction and learning, and the …

Ventral pallidal regulation of motivated behaviors and reinforcement

C Soares-Cunha, JA Heinsbroek - Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
The interconnected nuclei of the ventral basal ganglia have long been identified as key
regulators of motivated behavior, and dysfunction of this circuit is strongly implicated in …

Emotion in action: When emotions meet motor circuits

A Braine, F Georges - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The brain is a remarkably complex organ responsible for a wide range of functions,
including the modulation of emotional states and movement. Neuronal circuits are believed …

Vocal learning–associated convergent evolution in mammalian proteins and regulatory elements

ME Wirthlin, TA Schmid, JE Elie, X Zhang, A Kowalczyk… - Science, 2024‏ - science.org
Vocal production learning (“vocal learning”) is a convergently evolved trait in vertebrates. To
identify brain genomic elements associated with mammalian vocal learning, we integrated …

A non-canonical striatopallidal Go pathway that supports motor control

MA Labouesse, A Torres-Herraez, MO Chohan… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
In the classical model of the basal ganglia, direct pathway striatal projection neurons
(dSPNs) send projections to the substantia nigra (SNr) and entopeduncular nucleus to …