Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
16
Published: Aug. 15, 2023
How
neural
circuits
drive
behavior
is
a
central
question
in
neuroscience.
Proper
execution
of
motor
requires
precise
coordination
many
neurons.
Within
circuit,
individual
neurons
tend
to
play
discrete
roles
by
promoting
or
suppressing
output.
exactly
function
specific
fine
tune
output
not
well
understood.
In
C.
elegans
,
the
interneuron
RIM
plays
important
yet
complex
locomotion
behavior.
Here,
we
show
that
both
promotes
and
suppresses
distinct
features
This
dual
achieved
via
excitation
inhibition
same
circuit
electrical
chemical
neurotransmission,
respectively.
Additionally,
this
bi-directional
regulation
contributes
adaptation
animals
placed
novel
environments.
Our
findings
reveal
within
may
act
opposing
ways
regulate
dynamics
behavioral
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
117(34), P. 20890 - 20897
Published: Aug. 12, 2020
Multimodal
evidence
suggests
that
brain
regions
accumulate
information
over
timescales
vary
according
to
anatomical
hierarchy.
Thus,
these
experimentally
defined
"temporal
receptive
windows"
are
longest
in
cortical
distant
from
sensory
input.
Interestingly,
spontaneous
activity
also
plays
out
relatively
slow
(i.e.,
exhibits
slower
temporal
autocorrelation
decay).
These
findings
raise
the
possibility
hierarchical
represent
an
intrinsic
organizing
principle
of
function.
Here,
using
resting-state
functional
MRI,
we
show
timescale
ongoing
dynamics
follows
spatial
gradients
throughout
human
cerebral
cortex.
give
rise
systematic
frequency
differences
among
large-scale
networks
and
predict
individual-specific
features
connectivity.
Whole-brain
coverage
permitted
us
further
investigate
organization
subcortical
dynamics.
We
topographically
mirrored
striatum,
thalamus,
cerebellum.
Finally,
hippocampus
followed
a
posterior-to-anterior
gradient,
corresponding
longitudinal
axis
increasing
representational
scale.
emerge
as
global
mammalian
brains.
Communications Biology,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
4(1)
Published: Aug. 16, 2021
Abstract
We
process
and
integrate
multiple
timescales
into
one
meaningful
whole.
Recent
evidence
suggests
that
the
brain
displays
a
complex
multiscale
temporal
organization.
Different
regions
exhibit
different
as
described
by
concept
of
intrinsic
neural
(INT);
however,
their
function
mechanisms
remains
unclear.
review
recent
literature
on
INT
propose
they
are
key
for
input
processing.
Specifically,
shared
across
species,
i.e.,
sharing.
This
role
in
encoding
inputs
through
matching
inputs’
stochastics
with
ongoing
statistics
brain’s
activity,
encoding.
Following
simulation
empirical
data,
we
point
out
integration
versus
segregation
sampling
deeply
grounds
within
its
environmental
evolutionary
context.
It
carries
major
implications
understanding
mental
features
psychiatric
disorders,
well
going
beyond
integrating
artificial
intelligence.
Cell,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
186(19), P. 4134 - 4151.e31
Published: Aug. 21, 2023
Changes
in
an
animal's
behavior
and
internal
state
are
accompanied
by
widespread
changes
activity
across
its
brain.
However,
how
neurons
the
brain
encode
this
is
impacted
poorly
understood.
We
recorded
brain-wide
diverse
motor
programs
of
freely
moving
C.
elegans
built
probabilistic
models
that
explain
each
neuron
encodes
quantitative
behavioral
features.
By
determining
identities
neurons,
we
created
atlas
defined
classes
connectome
behavior.
Many
have
conjunctive
representations
multiple
behaviors.
Moreover,
although
many
current
actions,
others
integrate
recent
actions.
behavior,
identify
these
flexible
nodes
connectome.
Our
results
provide
a
global
map
cell
types
Translational Psychiatry,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
14(1)
Published: July 5, 2024
Abstract
Major
depressive
disorder
(MDD)
is
characterized
by
a
multitude
of
psychopathological
symptoms
including
affective,
cognitive,
perceptual,
sensorimotor,
and
social.
The
neuronal
mechanisms
underlying
such
co-occurrence
remain
yet
unclear.
Rather
than
linking
localizing
single
to
specific
regions
or
networks,
this
perspective
proposes
more
global
dynamic
topographic
approach.
We
first
review
recent
findings
on
brain
activity
changes
during
both
rest
task
states
in
MDD
showing
reorganization
with
shift
from
unimodal
transmodal
regions.
Next,
we
out
two
candidate
that
may
underlie
mediate
abnormal
uni-/transmodal
topography,
namely
shifts
shorter
longer
timescales
abnormalities
the
excitation-inhibition
balance.
Finally,
show
how
relates
various
their
co-occurrence.
This
amounts
what
describe
as
‘Topographic
reorganization’
which
extends
our
earlier
‘Resting
state
hypothesis
depression’
complements
other
models
MDD.