There and back again: the corticobulbar loop.

abstract：:Dopamine is essential to cognitive functions. However, despite abundant studies demonstrating that dopamine neuron activity is related to reinforcement and motivation, little is known about what signals dopamine neurons convey to promote cognitive processing. We therefore examined dopamine neuron activity in monkeys p...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Matsumoto M,Takada M

更新日期：2013-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:To define the cis-acting DNA elements required for rhodopsin expression, we generated lines of transgenic mice carrying sequences upstream of the bovine rhodopsin gene fused to the E. coli beta-galactosidase gene (lacZ). Upstream sequences extending from -2174 to +70 bp, from -734 to +70 bp, and from -222 to +70 bp di...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Zack DJ,Bennett J,Wang Y,Davenport C,Klaunberg B,Gearhart J,Nathans J

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhythmic spontaneous electrical activity occurs in many parts of the developing nervous system, where it plays essential roles in the refinement of neural connections. By blocking or slowing this bursting activity, via in ovo drug applications at precise developmental periods, we show that such activity is also requir...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hanson MG,Landmesser LT

更新日期：2004-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Brief depolarization of cerebellar Purkinje cells was found to inhibit parallel fiber and climbing fiber EPSCs for tens of seconds. This depolarization-induced suppression of excitation (DSE) is accompanied by altered paired-pulse plasticity, suggesting a presynaptic locus. Fluorometric imaging revealed that postsynap...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kreitzer AC,Regehr WG

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic spines have been proposed as primary sites of synaptic plasticity in the brain. Consistent with this hypothesis, spines contain high concentrations of actin, suggesting that they might be motile. To investigate this possibility, we made video recordings from hippocampal neurons expressing actin tagged with g...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Fischer M,Kaech S,Knutti D,Matus A

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistical regularities in the environment create prior beliefs that we rely on to optimize our behavior when sensory information is uncertain. Bayesian theory formalizes how prior beliefs can be leveraged and has had a major impact on models of perception, sensorimotor function, and cognition. However, it is not kno...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Sohn H,Narain D,Meirhaeghe N,Jazayeri M

更新日期：2019-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel, converts the free energy of binding of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine into opening of its central pore. Here we present the first high-resolution structure of the receptor type found in muscle-endplate membrane and in the muscle-derived e...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Rahman MM,Teng J,Worrell BT,Noviello CM,Lee M,Karlin A,Stowell MHB,Hibbs RE

更新日期：2020-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Two critical amino acids in the visual pigment rhodopsin are Lys-296, the site of attachment of retinal to the protein through a protonated Schiff base linkage, and Glu-113, the Schiff base counterion. Mutation of Lys-296 or Glu-113 results in constitutive activation of opsin, as assayed by its ability to activate tra...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Robinson PR,Cohen GB,Zhukovsky EA,Oprian DD

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The signaling mechanisms that control the survival of CNS neurons are poorly understood. Here we show that, in contrast to PNS neurons, the survival of purified postnatal rat retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) in vitro is not promoted by peptide trophic factors unless their intracellular cAMP is increased pharmacologically...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Meyer-Franke A,Kaplan MR,Pfrieger FW,Barres BA

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using high resolution capacitance measurements, we have characterized an ultrafast component of transmitter release in ribbon-type synaptic terminals of retinal bipolar neurons. During depolarization, capacitance increases to a plateau of approximately 30 fF with a time constant of approximately 1.5 ms. When not limit...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Mennerick S,Matthews G

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microglia are brain-resident immune cells and regulate mechanisms essential for cognitive functions. Down syndrome (DS), the most frequent cause of genetic intellectual disability, is caused by a supernumerary chromosome 21, containing also genes related to the immune system. In the hippocampus of the Dp(16) mouse mod...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Pinto B,Morelli G,Rastogi M,Savardi A,Fumagalli A,Petretto A,Bartolucci M,Varea E,Catelani T,Contestabile A,Perlini LE,Cancedda L

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Screens for genes that orchestrate neural circuit formation in mammals have been hindered by practical constraints of germline mutagenesis. To overcome these limitations, we combined RNA-seq with somatic CRISPR mutagenesis to study synapse development in the mouse retina. Here synapses occur between cellular layers, f...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Sarin S,Zuniga-Sanchez E,Kurmangaliyev YZ,Cousins H,Patel M,Hernandez J,Zhang KX,Samuel MA,Morey M,Sanes JR,Zipursky SL

更新日期：2018-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:People often perceive configurations rather than the elements they comprise, a bias that may emerge because configurations often predict outcomes. But how does the brain learn to associate configurations with outcomes and how does this learning differ from learning about individual elements? We combined behavior, rein...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Duncan K,Doll BB,Daw ND,Shohamy D

更新日期：2018-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on extrapolation from excitatory synapses, it is often assumed that depletion of the releasable pool of synaptic vesicles is the main factor underlying depression at inhibitory synapses. In this issue of Neuron, using subcellular patch-clamp recording from inhibitory presynaptic terminals, Kawaguchi and Sakaba (...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Vandael DH,Espinoza C,Jonas P

更新日期：2015-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain functions are based on the dynamic interaction of excitatory and inhibitory inputs. Spillover of glutamate from excitatory synapses may diffuse to and modulate nearby inhibitory synapses. By recording unitary inhibitory postsynaptic currents (uIPSCs) from cell pairs in CA1 of the hippocampus, we demonstrated tha...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Jiang L,Xu J,Nedergaard M,Kang J

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify the molecular mechanisms underlying psychostimulant-elicited plasticity in the brain reward system, we undertook a phenotype-driven approach using genome-wide microarray profiling of striatal transcripts from three genetic and one pharmacological mouse models of psychostimulant or dopamine supersensitivity...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Yao WD,Gainetdinov RR,Arbuckle MI,Sotnikova TD,Cyr M,Beaulieu JM,Torres GE,Grant SG,Caron MG

更新日期：2004-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Critical periods are developmental time windows during which neuronal connections are shaped by experience. In this issue of Neuron, Davis et al. (2015) show that transplantation of embryonic inhibitory interneurons can reactivate critical period plasticity and reverse amblyopia in the visual cortex of adult mice. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Levine JN,Gu Y,Cang J

更新日期：2015-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionic currents were recorded from Xenopus oocytes injected with RNA isolated from chick or mouse brain. Three currents were studied: a rapid tetrodotoxin-sensitive Na+ current (Ina), an early outward K+ current sensitive to 4-aminopyridine (IA), and an inward current activated by the excitatory amino acid receptor ago...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lotan I,Volterra A,Dash P,Siegelbaum SA,Goelet P

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through specific intersubunit contacts, the four subunits of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor assemble into an alpha 2 beta gamma delta pentamer. The specificity of subunit association leads to formation of proper ligand binding sites and to transport of assembled pentamers to the cell surface. To identify determi...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kreienkamp HJ,Maeda RK,Sine SM,Taylor P

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MAG-deficient mouse was used to test whether MAG acts as a significant inhibitor of axonal regeneration in the adult mammalian CNS, as suggested by cell culture experiments. Cell spreading, neurite elongation, or growth cone collapse of different cell types in vitro was not significantly different when myelin prep...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Bartsch U,Bandtlow CE,Schnell L,Bartsch S,Spillmann AA,Rubin BP,Hillenbrand R,Montag D,Schwab ME,Schachner M

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neocortical excitatory and inhibitory neurons derive from distinct progenitor domains during embryonic development and migrate to their final positions, where they assemble into functional circuits. This process appears to be influenced by lineage relationships among locally born excitatory neurons, raising the intrig...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Turrero García M,Mazzola E,Harwell CC

更新日期：2016-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a diverse and poorly conserved category of transcripts that have expanded greatly in primates, particularly in the brain. We identified an lncRNA, which has acquired 16 microRNA response elements for miR-143-3p in the Catarrhini branch of primates. This lncRNA, termed LncND (neurodev...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Rani N,Nowakowski TJ,Zhou H,Godshalk SE,Lisi V,Kriegstein AR,Kosik KS

更新日期：2016-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide physiological, pharmacological, and structural evidence that axons of hippocampal principal cells are electrically coupled, with prepotentials or spikelets forming the physiological substrate of electrical coupling as observed in cell somata. Antidromic activation of neighboring axons induced somatic spikel...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Schmitz D,Schuchmann S,Fisahn A,Draguhn A,Buhl EH,Petrasch-Parwez E,Dermietzel R,Heinemann U,Traub RD

更新日期：2001-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease is caused by an abnormally expanded CAG repeat expansion in the HTT gene, which confers a predominant toxic gain of function in the mutant huntingtin (mHTT) protein. There are currently no disease-modifying therapies available, but approaches that target proximally in disease pathogenesis hold gre...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Tabrizi SJ,Ghosh R,Leavitt BR

更新日期：2019-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective mental functioning requires that cognition be protected from emotional conflict due to interference by task-irrelevant emotionally salient stimuli. The neural mechanisms by which the brain detects and resolves emotional conflict are still largely unknown, however. Drawing on the classic Stroop conflict task,...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Etkin A,Egner T,Peraza DM,Kandel ER,Hirsch J

更新日期：2006-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfaction is a vitally important sense for all animals. There are striking similarities between species in the organization of the olfactory pathway, from the nature of the odorant receptor proteins, to perireceptor processes, to the organization of the olfactory CNS, through odor-guided behavior and memory. These com...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ache BW,Young JM

更新日期：2005-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A longstanding debate in binocular rivalry literature is whether the perceptual competition in rivalry occurs at an early or late stage of visual processing. Central to this debate is the determination of the source of the competition. Overwhelming evidence exists that local interocular differences can lead to binocul...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Carlson TA,He S

更新日期：2004-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A key function of the nucleus accumbens is to promote vigorous reward seeking, but the corresponding neural mechanism has not been identified despite many years of research. Here, we study cued flexible approach behavior, a form of reward seeking that strongly depends on the accumbens, and we describe a robust, single...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： McGinty VB,Lardeux S,Taha SA,Kim JJ,Nicola SM

更新日期：2013-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:During normal vision, the focus of gaze continually jumps from one important image feature to the next. In this issue of Neuron, Mazer and Gallant analyze neural activity in higher-level visual cortex during this kind of active visual exploration, and they demonstrate a localized enhancement of visual responses that p...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Connor CE

更新日期：2003-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous fluctuations in cortical excitability influence sensory processing and behavior. These fluctuations, long thought to reflect global changes in cortical state, were recently found to be modulated locally within a retinotopic map during spatially selective attention. We report that periods of vigorous (On) a...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： van Kempen J,Gieselmann MA,Boyd M,Steinmetz NA,Moore T,Engel TA,Thiele A

更新日期：2020-12-30 00:00:00