Cell Discovery,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
11(1)
Published: Feb. 25, 2025
Abstract
Competitive
interactions
are
pervasive
within
biological
populations,
where
individuals
engage
in
fierce
disputes
over
vital
resources
for
survival.
Before
the
establishment
of
a
social
hierarchy
population,
this
competition
becomes
even
more
intense.
Historical
experiences
significantly
influence
competitive
performance;
with
history
persistent
loss
less
likely
to
initiate
attacks
or
win
escalated
contests.
However,
it
remains
unclear
how
historical
directly
affects
evolution
mental
processes
during
and
alters
responses
ongoing
events.
Here,
we
utilized
naturalistic
food
paradigm
track
patterns
mutually
unfamiliar
competitors
found
that
leads
reduced
performance.
By
tracking
activity
ventral
hippocampal
neuron
ensembles,
identified
clusters
neurons
responded
differently
behavioral
events
competition,
their
reactivity
modulated
by
previous
losses.
Using
Recurrent
Switch
Linear
Dynamical
System
(rSLDS),
revealed
rotational
dynamics
hippocampus
(vHPC)
different
discrete
internal
states
corresponded
strategies.
Moreover,
modulates
behavior
remodeling
characteristic
attributes
dynamic
system.
Finally,
an
evolutionarily
conserved
glutamate
receptor-associated
protein,
protein
1
(Grina),
plays
important
role
process.
continuously
monitoring
association
between
system
competitiveness,
restoring
Grina
expression
effectively
reversed
impact
on
Together,
our
study
reveals
elucidates
underlying
mechanisms
through
which
shapes
these
processes.
Science,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
387(6730)
Published: Jan. 9, 2025
Sociosexual
preference
is
critical
for
reproduction
and
survival.
However,
neural
mechanisms
encoding
social
decisions
on
sex
remain
unclear.
In
this
study,
we
show
that
both
male
female
mice
exhibit
but
shift
to
when
facing
survival
threats;
their
mediated
by
the
dimorphic
changes
in
excitability
of
ventral
tegmental
area
dopaminergic
(VTA
DA
)
neurons.
males,
VTA
projections
nucleus
accumbens
(NAc)
mediate
preference,
those
medial
preoptic
preference.
females,
firing-pattern
(phasic-like
versus
tonic-like)
alteration
-NAc
projection
determines
sociosexual
preferences.
These
findings
define
neurons
as
a
key
node
decision-making
reveal
sexually
circuit
underlying
Science,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
382(6669), P. 405 - 412
Published: Oct. 26, 2023
Neural
substrates
of
wakefulness,
rapid
eye
movement
sleep
(REMS),
and
non-REMS
(NREMS)
in
the
mammalian
hypothalamus
overlap
both
anatomically
functionally
with
cellular
networks
that
support
physiological
behavioral
homeostasis.
Here,
we
review
roles
neurons
homeostatic
control
thermoregulation
or
goal-oriented
behaviors
during
wakefulness.
We
address
how
hypothalamic
circuits
involved
opposing
such
as
core
body
temperature
compute
conflicting
information
provide
a
coherent
vigilance
state.
Finally,
highlight
some
key
unresolved
questions
challenges,
promise
more
granular
view
molecular
diversity
underlying
integrative
role
Nature Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 17, 2025
The
manner
in
which
neural
activity
unfolds
over
time
is
thought
to
be
central
sensory,
motor
and
cognitive
functions
the
brain.
Network
models
have
long
posited
that
brain's
computations
involve
courses
of
are
shaped
by
underlying
network.
A
prediction
from
this
view
should
difficult
violate.
We
leveraged
a
brain-computer
interface
challenge
monkeys
violate
naturally
occurring
population
we
observed
cortex.
This
included
challenging
animals
traverse
natural
course
time-reversed
manner.
Animals
were
unable
when
directly
challenged
do
so.
These
results
provide
empirical
support
for
brain
indeed
reflect
network-level
computational
mechanisms
they
believed
implement.
Nature,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
634(8035), P. 901 - 909
Published: Aug. 14, 2024
Females
exhibit
complex,
dynamic
behaviors
during
mating
with
variable
sexual
receptivity
depending
on
hormonal
status1–4.
However,
how
their
brains
encode
the
dynamics
of
and
remains
largely
unknown.
The
ventromedial
hypothalamus,
ventro-lateral
subdivision
contains
estrogen
receptor
type
1-positive
neurons
that
control
in
female
mice5,6.
Unsupervised
dynamical
systems
analysis
calcium
imaging
data
from
these
uncovered
a
dimension
slow
ramping
activity,
generating
line
attractor
neural
state
space.
Neural
perturbations
behaving
females
demonstrated
relaxation
population
activity
back
into
attractor.
During
integrated
male
cues
to
ramp
up
along
this
attractor,
peaking
just
before
ejaculation.
Activity
was
positively
correlated
degree
receptivity.
Longitudinal
revealed
appear
disappear
across
estrus
cycle
are
hormone-dependent.
These
observations
suggest
hypothalamic
encodes
persistent,
escalating
arousal
or
drive
mating.
They
also
demonstrate
attractors
can
be
reversibly
modulated
by
status,
timescale
days.
PLoS Computational Biology,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
19(8), P. e1011395 - e1011395
Published: Aug. 28, 2023
Linear
parametric
state-space
models
are
a
ubiquitous
tool
for
analyzing
neural
time
series
data,
providing
way
to
characterize
the
underlying
brain
dynamics
with
much
greater
statistical
efficiency
than
non-parametric
data
analysis
approaches.
However,
frequently
time-varying,
exhibiting
rapid
changes
in
dynamics,
transient
activity
that
is
often
key
feature
of
interest
data.
Stationary
methods
can
be
adapted
time-varying
scenarios
by
employing
fixed-duration
windows
under
an
assumption
quasi-stationarity.
But
explicitly
modeled
switching
models,
i.e.,
using
pool
different
selected
probabilistic
process.
Unfortunately,
exact
solutions
state
inference
and
parameter
learning
intractable.
Here
we
revisit
model
approach
first
proposed
Ghahramani
Hinton.
We
provide
explicit
derivations
solving
problem
iteratively
after
applying
variational
approximation
on
joint
posterior
hidden
states
introduce
novel
initialization
procedure
efficient
leave-one-out
strategy
compare
among
candidate
which
significantly
improves
performance
compared
existing
method
relies
deterministic
annealing.
then
utilize
this
solution
within
generalized
expectation-maximization
algorithm
estimate
parameters
process
linear
potentially
shared
models.
perform
extensive
simulations
settings
benchmark
against
further
validate
robustness
our
outside
generative
class.
Finally,
demonstrate
utility
sleep
spindle
detection
real
recordings,
showing
how
used
detect
extract
spindles
from
human
electroencephalograms
unsupervised
manner.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
121(47)
Published: Nov. 12, 2024
Animal
behavior
is
organized
into
nested
temporal
patterns
that
span
multiple
timescales.
This
hierarchy
believed
to
arise
from
a
hierarchical
neural
architecture:
Neurons
near
the
top
of
are
involved
in
planning,
selecting,
initiating,
and
maintaining
motor
programs,
whereas
those
bottom
act
concert
produce
fine
spatiotemporal
activity.
In
Caenorhabditis
elegans
,
on
long
timescale
emerges
ordered
flexible
transitions
between
different
behavioral
states,
such
as
forward,
reversal,
turn.
On
short
timescale,
parts
animal
body
coordinate
fast
rhythmic
bending
sequences
directional
movements.
Here,
we
show
Sublateral
Anterior
A
(SAA),
class
interneurons
enable
cross-communication
dorsal
ventral
head
neurons,
play
dual
role
shaping
dynamics
SAA
regulate
stabilize
activity
during
forward
same
neurons
suppress
spontaneous
reversals
facilitate
reversal
termination
by
inhibiting
Ring
Interneuron
M
(RIM),
an
integrating
neuron
helps
maintain
state.
These
results
suggest
feedback
lower-level
cell
assembly
higher-level
command
center
essential
for
bridging
at
levels.