Neuron,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
108(3), P. 401 - 412
Published: Aug. 31, 2020
Epidemiological
studies
identify
midlife
hearing
loss
as
an
independent
risk
factor
for
dementia,
estimated
to
account
9%
of
cases.
We
evaluate
candidate
brain
bases
this
relationship.
These
include
a
common
pathology
affecting
the
ascending
auditory
pathway
and
multimodal
cortex,
depletion
cognitive
reserve
due
impoverished
listening
environment,
occupation
resources
when
in
difficult
conditions.
also
put
forward
alternate
mechanism,
drawing
on
new
insights
into
role
medial
temporal
lobe
cognition.
In
particular,
we
consider
how
aberrant
activity
service
pattern
analysis,
working
memory,
object
processing
may
interact
with
dementia
people
loss.
highlight
effect
interventions
depends
specific
mechanism
suggest
avenues
work
at
molecular,
neuronal,
systems
levels
pin
down.
Cell Reports,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
43(2), P. 113709 - 113709
Published: Jan. 26, 2024
During
sensory-guided
behavior,
an
animal's
decision-making
dynamics
unfold
through
sequences
of
distinct
performance
states,
even
while
stimulus-reward
contingencies
remain
static.
Little
is
known
about
the
factors
that
underlie
these
changes
in
task
performance.
We
hypothesize
can
be
predicted
by
externally
observable
measures,
such
as
uninstructed
movements
and
arousal.
Here,
using
computational
modeling
visual
auditory
data
from
mice,
we
uncovered
lawful
relationships
between
transitions
strategic
states
arousal
movements.
Using
hidden
Markov
models
applied
to
behavioral
choices
during
sensory
discrimination
tasks,
find
animals
fluctuate
minutes-long
optimal,
sub-optimal,
disengaged
states.
Optimal
state
epochs
are
intermediate
levels,
reduced
variability,
pupil
diameter
movement.
Our
results
demonstrate
behaviors
predict
optimal
suggest
mice
regulate
their
Progress in Neurobiology,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
218, P. 102326 - 102326
Published: July 20, 2022
The
hippocampus
has
a
well-established
role
in
spatial
and
episodic
memory
but
broader
function
been
proposed
including
aspects
of
perception
relational
processing.
Neural
bases
sound
analysis
have
described
the
pathway
to
auditory
cortex,
wider
networks
supporting
cognition
are
still
being
established.
We
review
what
is
known
about
processing
information,
how
itself
shaped
by
sound.
In
examining
imaging,
recording,
lesion
studies
species
from
rodents
humans,
we
uncover
hierarchy
hippocampal
responses
during
passive
exposure,
active
listening,
learning
associations
between
sounds
other
stimuli.
describe
hippocampus'
connectivity
computational
architecture
allow
it
track
manipulate
information
–
whether
form
speech,
music,
or
environmental,
emotional,
phantom
sounds.
Functional
structural
correlates
experience
also
identified.
extent
auditory-hippocampal
interactions
consistent
with
view
that
makes
broad
contributions
cognition,
beyond
memory.
More
deeply
understanding
these
may
unlock
applications
entraining
rhythms
support
intervening
links
hearing
loss
dementia.
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: April 20, 2024
Summary
A
fundamental
question
in
neuroscience
is
how
memory
formation
shapes
brain
activity
at
the
level
of
populations
neurons.
Recent
studies
hippocampal
‘engram’
cells,
identified
by
immediate-early
genes
(IEGs)
induced
learning,
propose
that
these
act
as
a
neuronal
substrate
for
storage.
The
current
framework
engram
proposes
cells
join
ensembles
based
on
increased
intrinsic
excitability,
and
after
initial
they
co-activate
to
support
retrieval.
However,
direct
evidence
population
dynamics
evolve
across
learning
limited.
Here
we
combined
activity-dependent
genetic
tagging
two-photon
calcium
imaging
characterize
CA1
before
learning.
We
observed
spontaneous
two
days
predicted
tagging,
consistent
with
model
which
fluctuations
bias
into
forming
assemblies.
Surprisingly,
were
unable
detect
rates
or
pairwise
correlations
amongst
tagged
neurons
These
results
computational
network
models
incorporate
strong
specific
inhibitory
connections,
supporting
idea
excitatory/inhibitory
balance
may
play
key
role
dynamics.
Together
highlight
potential
slow
time
scale
excitability
driving
suggest
excitatory-inhibitory
regulate
cell
co-activation.
Highlights
Tracked
Fos
Spontaneous
predicts
TetTagging.
No
changes
TetTagged
Modeling
suggests
E/I
regulates
Journal of Global Health,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
11
Published: Dec. 18, 2021
Little
is
known
about
the
associations
between
vision
impairment,
hearing
and
cognitive
function.
The
aim
of
this
study
was
to
examine
whether
impairment
were
associated
with
a
high
risk
for
in
middle-aged
older
Chinese
adults.A
total
13
914
adults
from
China
Health
Retirement
Longitudinal
Study
(CHARLS)
baseline
selected
analysis.
Sensory
assessed
single
self-report
question,
we
categorized
sensory
into
four
groups:
no
dual
impairment.
Cognitive
assessment
covered
memory,
mental
state,
cognition,
data
obtained
through
questionnaire.Memory
negatively
(β
=
-0.043,
95%
confidence
interval
(CI)
-0.076,
-0.043)
-0.033,
CI
-0.049,
-0.017);
status
-0.034,
-0.018),
-0.070,
-0.086,
-0.055),
-0.054,
-0.039);
cognition
-0.028,
-0.044,
-0.013),
-0.074,
-0.090,
-0.059),
-0.052,
-0.067,
-0.036),
even
after
adjusting
demographics,
social
economic
factors,
lifestyle
behavior.Vision
are
status,
elderly
adults.
There
stronger
negative
cognitive-related
indicators
compared
middle-aged.