Fast-spiking parvalbumin-positive interneurons in brain physiology and Alzheimer's disease

S Hijazi, AB Smit, RE van Kesteren - Molecular Psychiatry, 2023‏ - nature.com
Fast-spiking parvalbumin (PV) interneurons are inhibitory interneurons with unique
morphological and functional properties that allow them to precisely control local circuitry …

Neuronal circuits for fear and anxiety

P Tovote, JP Fadok, A Lüthi - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2015‏ - nature.com
Decades of research has identified the brain areas that are involved in fear, fear extinction,
anxiety and related defensive behaviours. Newly developed genetic and viral tools …

The molecular cytoarchitecture of the adult mouse brain

J Langlieb, NS Sachdev, KS Balderrama, NM Nadaf… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
The function of the mammalian brain relies upon the specification and spatial positioning of
diversely specialized cell types. Yet, the molecular identities of the cell types and their …

[HTML][HTML] Neuronal types in the mouse amygdala and their transcriptional response to fear conditioning

H Hochgerner, S Singh, M Tibi, Z Lin… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
The amygdala is a brain region primarily associated with emotional response. The use of
genetic markers and single-cell transcriptomics can provide insights into behavior …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial transcriptomics reveal neuron–astrocyte synergy in long-term memory

W Sun, Z Liu, X Jiang, MB Chen, H Dong, J Liu… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Memory encodes past experiences, thereby enabling future plans. The basolateral
amygdala is a centre of salience networks that underlie emotional experiences and thus has …

AAV-mediated anterograde transsynaptic tagging: map** corticocollicular input-defined neural pathways for defense behaviors

B Zingg, X Chou, Z Zhang, L Mesik, F Liang, HW Tao… - Neuron, 2017‏ - cell.com
To decipher neural circuits underlying brain functions, viral tracers are widely applied to map
input and output connectivity of neuronal populations. Despite the successful application of …

Optogenetics: 10 years of microbial opsins in neuroscience

K Deisseroth - Nature neuroscience, 2015‏ - nature.com
Over the past 10 years, the development and convergence of microbial opsin engineering,
modular genetic methods for cell-type targeting and optical strategies for guiding light …

Midbrain circuits for defensive behaviour

P Tovote, MS Esposito, P Botta, F Chaudun, JP Fadok… - Nature, 2016‏ - nature.com
Survival in threatening situations depends on the selection and rapid execution of an
appropriate active or passive defensive response, yet the underlying brain circuitry is not …

From circuits to behaviour in the amygdala

PH Janak, KM Tye - Nature, 2015‏ - nature.com
The amygdala has long been associated with emotion and motivation, playing an essential
part in processing both fearful and rewarding environmental stimuli. How can a single …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction and memory: A predictive coding account

HC Barron, R Auksztulewicz, K Friston - Progress in neurobiology, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The hippocampus is crucial for episodic memory, but it is also involved in online prediction.
Evidence suggests that a unitary hippocampal code underlies both episodic memory and …