bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: May 26, 2023
Neurons
integrate
synaptic
inputs
within
their
dendrites
and
produce
spiking
outputs,
which
then
propagate
down
the
axon
back
into
where
they
contribute
to
plasticity.
Mapping
voltage
dynamics
in
dendritic
arbors
of
live
animals
is
crucial
for
understanding
neuronal
computation
plasticity
rules.
Here
we
combine
patterned
channelrhodopsin
activation
with
dual-plane
structured
illumination
imaging,
simultaneous
perturbation
monitoring
somatic
Layer
2/3
pyramidal
neurons
anesthetized
awake
mice.
We
examined
integration
compared
optogenetically
evoked,
spontaneous,
sensory-evoked
back-propagating
action
potentials
(bAPs).
Our
measurements
revealed
a
broadly
shared
membrane
throughout
arbor,
few
signatures
electrical
compartmentalization
among
inputs.
However,
observed
spike
rate
acceleration-dependent
propagation
bAPs
distal
dendrites.
propose
that
this
filtering
may
play
critical
role
activity-dependent
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
17
Published: July 27, 2023
Accumulating
evidence
from
a
wide
range
of
studies,
including
behavioral,
cellular,
molecular
and
computational
findings,
support
key
role
dendrites
in
the
encoding
recall
new
memories.
Dendrites
can
integrate
synaptic
inputs
non-linear
ways,
provide
substrate
for
local
protein
synthesis
facilitate
orchestration
signaling
pathways
that
regulate
plasticity.
These
capabilities
allow
them
to
act
as
second
layer
computation
within
neuron
serve
fundamental
unit
As
such,
are
integral
parts
memory
engram,
namely
physical
representation
memories
brain
increasingly
studied
during
learning
tasks.
Here,
we
review
experimental
studies
novel,
dendritic
view
engram
is
centered
on
branches
elementary
units.
We
highlight
potential
implications
engrams
field
discuss
future
research
directions.
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Oct. 5, 2023
Abstract
Learning
and
memory
are
fundamental
to
adaptive
behavior
cognition.
Various
forms
of
synaptic
plasticity
have
been
proposed
as
cellular
substrates
for
the
emergence
feature
selectivity
in
neurons
underlying
episodic
memory.
However,
despite
decades
work,
our
understanding
how
underlies
encoding
remains
limited,
largely
due
a
shortage
tools
technical
challenges
associated
with
visualization
at
single-neuron
resolution
awake-behaving
animals.
Behavioral
Timescale
Synaptic
Plasticity
(BTSP)
postulates
that
inputs
active
during
seconds-long
time
window
preceding
immediately
following
large
depolarizing
plateau
spike
potentiated,
while
outside
this
depressed.
We
experimentally
tested
model
vivo
mice
using
an
all-optical
approach
by
inducing
place
fields
(PFs)
single
CA1
pyramidal
(CA1PNs)
monitoring
spatiotemporal
tuning
individual
dendritic
spines
changes
their
corresponding
weights.
identified
asymmetric
kernel
resulting
from
bidirectional
modifications
weights
around
burst
induction.
Surprisingly,
work
also
uncovered
compartment-specific
differences
magnitude
temporal
expression
between
basal
oblique
dendrites
CA1PNs.
Our
results
provide
first
experimental
evidence
linking
rapid
spatial
hippocampal
neurons,
critical
prerequisite
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
121(7)
Published: Feb. 7, 2024
Synaptic
plasticity
[long-term
potentiation/depression
(LTP/D)],
is
a
cellular
mechanism
underlying
learning.
Two
distinct
types
of
early
LTP/D
(E-LTP/D),
acting
on
very
different
time
scales,
have
been
observed
experimentally—spike
timing
dependent
(STDP),
scales
tens
ms;
and
behavioral
scale
synaptic
(BTSP),
seconds.
BTSP
candidate
for
rapid
learning
spatial
location
by
place
cells.
Here,
computational
model
the
induction
E-LTP/D
at
spine
head
synapse
hippocampal
pyramidal
neuron
developed.
The
single-compartment
represents
two
interacting
biochemical
pathways
activation
(phosphorylation)
kinase
(CaMKII)
with
phosphatase,
ion
inflow
through
channels
(NMDAR,
CaV1,Na).
reactions
are
represented
deterministic
system
differential
equations,
detailed
description
CaMKII
that
includes
opening
compact
state
CaMKII.
This
single
captures
realistic
responses
(temporal
profiles
differing
timescales)
STDP
their
asymmetries.
simulations
distinguish
several
mechanisms
vs.
BTSP,
including
i)
flow
Ca2+
NMDAR
CaV1
channels,
ii)
origin
in
also
realizes
priming
E-LTP
induced
CaV1.3
channels.
Once
head,
this
small
additional
opens
CaMKII,
placing
ready
subsequent
LTP.
Development,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
149(17)
Published: Sept. 1, 2022
Calcium
influx
can
be
stimulated
by
various
intra-
and
extracellular
signals
to
set
coordinated
gene
expression
programs
into
motion.
As
such,
the
precise
regulation
of
intracellular
calcium
represents
a
nexus
between
environmental
cues
intrinsic
genetic
programs.
Mounting
evidence
points
role
for
deregulation
signaling
in
neuropsychiatric
disorders
developmental
origin.
These
findings
have
prompted
renewed
enthusiasm
understanding
roles
during
normal
dysfunctional
prenatal
development.
In
this
Review,
we
describe
fundamental
mechanisms
through
which
is
spatiotemporally
regulated
directs
early
neurodevelopmental
events.
We
also
discuss
unanswered
questions
about
emergence
disease,
provide
that
disruption
cell-specific
homeostasis
and/or
redeployment
may
contribute
adult
neurological
disorders.
propose
events
build
nervous
system
will
rely
on
gaining
insights
cell
type-specific
mechanisms.
Such
an
enable
therapeutic
strategies
targeting
calcium-dependent
mitigate
disease.
Nature Communications,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
15(1)
Published: Jan. 23, 2024
To
successfully
learn
real-life
behavioral
tasks,
animals
must
pair
actions
or
decisions
to
the
task's
complex
structure,
which
can
depend
on
abstract
combinations
of
sensory
stimuli
and
internal
logic.
The
hippocampus
is
known
develop
representations
this
forming
a
so-called
"cognitive
map".
However,
precise
biophysical
mechanisms
driving
emergence
task-relevant
maps
at
population
level
remain
unclear.
We
propose
model
in
plateau-based
learning
single
cell
level,
combined
with
reinforcement
an
agent,
leads
latent
representational
structures
codependently
evolving
behavior
task-specific
manner.
In
agreement
recent
experimental
data,
we
show
that
develops
essential
for
task-solving
(cue-dependent
"splitters")
while
excluding
irrelevant
ones.
Finally,
our
makes
testable
predictions
concerning
co-dependent
interactions
between
split
policy
during
their
evolution.
Our
understanding
of
mitochondrial
signaling
in
the
nervous
system
has
been
limited
by
technical
challenge
analyzing
function
vivo.
In
transparent
genetic
model
Caenorhabditis
elegans,
we
were
able
to
manipulate
and
measure
reactive
oxygen
species
(mitoROS)
individual
mitochondria
as
well
neuronal
activity
single
neurons
Using
this
approach,
provide
evidence
supporting
a
novel
role
for
mitoROS
dendrites
excitatory
glutamatergic
C.
elegans
interneurons.
Specifically,
show
that
following
activity,
dendritic
take
up
calcium
(Ca2+)
via
Ca2+
uniporter
(MCU-1)
results
an
upregulation
production.
We
also
observed
are
positioned
close
proximity
synaptic
clusters
GLR-1,
ortholog
AMPA
subtype
glutamate
receptors
mediate
excitation.
recruitment
GLR-1
is
upregulated
when
MCU-1
pharmacologically
or
genetically
impaired
but
downregulated
signaling.
Thus,
from
postsynaptic
may
regulate
synapse
maintain
homeostasis
preventing
excitotoxicity
energy
depletion.
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Aug. 1, 2023
Behavioral
time
scale
plasticity
(BTSP),
is
a
form
of
non-Hebbian
induced
by
integrating
pre-
and
postsynaptic
components
separated
behavioral
(seconds).
BTSP
in
the
hippocampal
CA1
neurons
underlies
place
cell
formation.
However,
molecular
mechanisms
underlying
this
(eligibility
trace)
synapse
specificity
are
unknown.
CaMKII
can
be
activated
synapse-specific
manner
remain
active
for
few
seconds,
making
it
compelling
candidate
eligibility
trace
during
BTSP.
Here,
we
show
that
single
dendritic
spine
using
2-photon
glutamate
uncaging
paired
with
current
injection
temporally
scale.
Using
an
improved
sensor,
saw
no
detectable
activation
induction.
Instead,
observed
dendritic,
delayed,
stochastic
(DDSC)
associated
Ca