Computational training for the next generation of neuroscientists.

abstract：:The rapid accumulation of neuroproteomics data in recent years has prompted the emergence of novel antibody-based imaging methods that aim to understand the anatomical and functional context of the multitude of identified proteins. The pioneering field of ultrastructural multiplexed proteomic imaging now includes a nu...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Micheva KD,Bruchez MP

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroscientists spent decades debating whether synaptic plasticity was presynaptically or postsynaptically expressed. It was eventually concluded that plasticity depends on many factors, including cell type. More recently, it has become increasingly clear that plasticity is regulated at an even finer grained level; it...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Larsen RS,Sjöström PJ

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The view of cerebellar functions has been extended from controlling sensorimotor processes to processing 'contextual' information and generating predictions for a diverse range of behaviors. These functions rely on the computation of the local cerebellar microcircuits and long-range connectivity that relays cerebellar...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Xiao L,Scheiffele P

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholine is the specific chemical code of spinal nerve terminal transmission at the mammalian neuromuscular junction (NMJ), whereas nicotinic acetylcholine receptors inserted into the membrane of muscle fibres mediate signalling for the muscle response. Glutamate has a primary role in neuromuscular transmission o...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Pizzi M,Brunelli G,Barlati S,Spano P

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracting the structure of complex environments is at the core of our ability to interpret the present and predict the future. This skill is important for a range of behaviours from navigating a new city to learning music and language. Classical approaches that investigate our ability to extract the principles of org...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Kourtzi Z,Welchman AE

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oscillation in motor pattern generators is driven either by pacemaker neurons with inherent bursting properties or through network interactions. In a few examples in invertebrates and lower vertebrates, the mechanisms by which reciprocal inhibition combines with inherent membrane properties to produce network oscillat...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Calabrese RL

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic AMP response element binding protein (CREB)-responsive transcription plays a central role in the formation of long-term memory in Drosophila, Aplysia and mice. Agents that disrupt the activity of CREB specifically block the formation of long-term memory, whereas agents that increase the amount or activity of th...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Yin JC,Tully T

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tight control of developmental timing is pivotal to many major processes in developmental biology, such as patterning, fate specification, cell cycle dynamics, cell migration and connectivity. Temporal change in these ontogenetic sequences is known as heterochrony, a major force in the evolution of body plans and orga...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Bielen H,Pal S,Tole S,Houart C

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reinforcement learning provides both qualitative and quantitative frameworks for understanding and modeling adaptive decision-making in the face of rewards and punishments. Here we review the latest dispatches from the forefront of this field, and map out some of the territories where lie monsters. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Dayan P,Niv Y

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interfacing the nervous system with devices able to efficiently record or modulate the electrical activity of neuronal cells represents the underlying foundation of future theranostic applications in neurology and of current openings in neuroscience research. These devices, usually sensing cell activity via microelect...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Scaini D,Ballerini L

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of complex human diseases has been spurred by the number of published genomic sequence variants - many identified in the course of sequencing the human genome. But, to be useful for genetic analysis, variants have to be mapped accurately, their frequencies in various populations determined, and automated ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Nowotny P,Kwon JM,Goate AM

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Connections and interactions among distributed brain areas are increasingly recognized as the basis for cognitive operations and a diverse repertoire of behaviors. Analytic advances have allowed for brain connectivity to be represented and quantified at multiple levels: from single connections to communities and netwo...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Mišić B,Sporns O

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basal ganglia, with their inhibitory efferents, control motor outputs either directly by their projections to the midbrain motor regions or indirectly through the thalamic nuclei. Neural mechanisms in the basal ganglia act selectively to remove or enhance the inhibition so that different combinations of motor sign...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Hikosaka O

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+ entry into neurons is one of the major effectors of stimulus-induced physiological change. Ca2+ can enter neurons through a number of different voltage-gated and ligand-gated channels. Depending on the route of entry, Ca2+ stimulates distinct intracellular signaling pathways, which activate different sets of gene...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Gallin WJ,Greenberg ME

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral nerves show a remarkable ability to regenerate following a transection injury. Downstream of the cut, the axons degenerate and so to regenerate the nerve, the severed axons need to regrow back to their targets and regain function. This requires the axons to navigate through two different environments. (1) T...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Cattin AL,Lloyd AC

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most high-level sensory neurons have complex, nonlinear response properties; a comprehensive characterization of these properties remains a formidable challenge. Recent studies using complex sensory stimuli combined with linear and nonlinear analyses have provided new insights into the neuronal response properties in ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Touryan J,Dan Y

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons have a multiplicity of ionic conductance mechanisms, the interactions of which determine in part the response of a neuron to chemical and electrical synaptic interactions, firing patterns, excitability, membrane potential and action-potential waveform. Several papers published in the past year have provided im...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Baxter DA,Byrne JH

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work on the retinotectal projection clearly establishes the roles of neuronal activity and position-based cues in the patterning of nerve connections. In some species, the high degree of spatial order has been shown to emerge from a continued process of terminal growth and refinement. The future challenge is no...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Fraser SE

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neocortex expansion in development and evolution reflects an increased and prolonged activity of neural progenitor cells. Insight into key aspects of the underlying cell biology has recently been obtained. First, the restriction of apical progenitors to undergo mitosis at the ventricular surface is overcome by generat...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Wilsch-Bräuninger M,Florio M,Huttner WB

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Powerful advances in neuroimaging techniques have added to and refined classical descriptions of the neurobiology of language in adults. Recent studies have employed these methodologies to study the nature and extent of plasticity of language-relevant aspects of cerebral organization in adults, in early and late bilin...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Neville HJ,Bavelier D

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Müller Glia (MG), the radial glia cells of the retina, have spectacular morphologies subserving their enormous functional complexity. As early as 1892, the great neuroanatomist Santiago Ramon y Cajal studied the morphological development of MG, defining several steps in their morphogenesis [1,2]. However, the molecula...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： MacDonald RB,Charlton-Perkins M,Harris WA

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterogeneity among progenitor cells in the vertebrate nervous system has been documented with increasing frequency over the past few years. It has become clear that differences in progenitor cells help to determine when and how they respond to environmental signals. More recent studies have begun to elucidate the mol...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Lillien L

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perception, action, cognition, and emotion can now be mapped in the brain by a growing family of techniques. Positron emission tomography, functional magnetic resonance imaging, event-related electrical potentials, event-related magnetic fields, and other non-invasive imaging techniques are rapidly evolving and provid...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Fox PT,Woldorff MG

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroepithelial cells, the progenitors to the CNS neurons and glia, undergo both symmetric and asymmetric divisions. Symmetric divisions underlie the proliferation of neuroepithelial cells that predominates early in CNS development. Asymmetric divisions are thought to generate the cell types derived from neuroepitheli...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Huttner WB,Brand M

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural oscillations are ubiquitous in olfactory systems of mammals, insects and molluscs. Neurophysiological and computational investigations point to common mechanisms for gamma or odor associated oscillations across phyla (40-100Hz in mammals, 20-30Hz in insects, 0.5-1.5Hz in molluscs), engaging the reciprocal dendr...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Kay LM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nervous system is evolutionarily conservative compared to the peripheral appendages that it controls. However, species-specific behaviors may have arisen from very small changes in neuronal circuits. In particular, changes in neuromodulatory systems may allow multifunctional circuits to produce different sets of b...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Katz PS,Harris-Warrick RM

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggest that endocannabinoids act as retrograde messengers at many synapses in the central nervous system. Activation of phospholipases, either through calcium-mediated or receptor-mediated signaling, leads to the formation and release of endocannabinoids. These lipophilic signaling molecules diffuse to...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Kreitzer AC,Regehr WG

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost 30 years ago, actin was identified as the major cytoskeletal component of dendritic spines. Since then, its role in the remarkable dynamics of spine morphology have been detailed with live-cell views establishing that spine shape dynamics are an important requirement for synaptogenesis and synaptic plasticity. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Frost NA,Kerr JM,Lu HE,Blanpied TA

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a similar fashion to transcription factors, non-coding RNAs can be essential regulators of gene expression. The largest class of non-coding RNAs is the microRNAs. These approximately 22 nt double-stranded RNA molecules can repress translation or target mRNA degradation. There has been a surge of research in the pas...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Klein ME,Impey S,Goodman RH

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our ability to learn and control the motor aspects of complex laryngeal behaviors, such as speech and song, is modulated by the laryngeal motor cortex (LMC), which is situated in the area 4 of the primary motor cortex and establishes both direct and indirect connections with laryngeal motoneurons. In contrast, the LMC...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Simonyan K

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00