bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Окт. 10, 2023
ABSTRACT
The
cerebellum
is
known
to
control
the
proper
balance
of
isometric
muscular
contractions
that
maintain
body
posture.
Current
optogenetic
manipulations
cerebellar
cortex
output,
however,
have
focused
on
ballistic
movements,
examining
movement
initiation
or
perturbations.
Here,
by
stimulations
Purkinje
cells,
output
cortex,
we
evaluate
posture
maintenance.
By
sequential
analysis
movement,
dissect
effect
stimulation
into
a
directly
induced
then
followed
compensatory
reflex
regain
We
identify
module
in
medial
part
anterior
vermis
which,
through
multiple
muscle
tone
regulation,
involved
postural
anti-gravity
maintenance
body.
Moreover,
report
an
antero-posterior
and
medio-lateral
functional
segregation
over
vermal
lobules
IV/V/VI.
Taken
together
our
results
open
new
avenues
for
better
understanding
modular
organization
its
role
Highlights
Vermal
cell
activation
elicits
graded
collapse
standing
mouse
triggers
secondary
composite
An
identified
function
somatotopically
organized
within
this
Nature Neuroscience,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
26(11), С. 1916 - 1928
Опубликована: Окт. 9, 2023
The
neocortex
and
cerebellum
interact
to
mediate
cognitive
functions.
It
remains
unknown
how
the
two
structures
organize
into
functional
networks
specific
behaviors.
Here
we
delineate
activity
supporting
motor
planning
in
relation
mesoscale
cortico-cerebellar
connectome.
In
mice
directional
licking
based
on
short-term
memory,
preparatory
instructing
future
movement
depends
anterior
lateral
cortex
(ALM)
cerebellum.
Transneuronal
tracing
revealed
divergent
largely
open-loop
connectivity
between
ALM
distributed
regions
of
A
cerebellum-wide
survey
neuronal
enriched
hotspot
with
conjunctive
input-output
ALM.
Perturbation
experiments
show
that
conjunction
were
required
for
maintaining
correct
subsequent
movement.
Other
cerebellar
contributed
little
despite
input
or
output
These
results
identify
a
loop
suggest
selectively
establishes
reciprocal
communications
orchestrate
planning.
Neuron,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
112(9), С. 1444 - 1455.e5
Опубликована: Фев. 26, 2024
Children
diagnosed
with
autism
spectrum
disorder
(ASD)
commonly
present
sensory
hypersensitivity
or
abnormally
strong
reactions
to
stimuli.
Such
can
be
overwhelming,
causing
high
levels
of
distress
that
contribute
markedly
the
negative
aspects
disorder.
Here,
we
identify
a
mechanism
underlies
in
sensorimotor
reflex
found
altered
humans
and
mice
loss
function
ASD
risk-factor
gene
SCN2A.
The
cerebellum-dependent
vestibulo-ocular
(VOR),
which
helps
maintain
one's
gaze
during
movement,
was
hypersensitized
due
deficits
cerebellar
synaptic
plasticity.
Heterozygous
SCN2A-encoded
Na
The Journal of Physiology,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Янв. 26, 2025
Abstract
The
cerebellum
is
critical
for
coordinating
movements
related
to
eating,
drinking
and
swallowing,
all
of
which
require
proper
control
the
tongue.
Cerebellar
Purkinje
cells
can
encode
tongue
movements,
but
it
unclear
how
their
simple
spikes
complex
induce
changes
in
shape
that
contribute
goal‐directed
movements.
To
study
these
relations,
we
recorded
stimulated
vermis
hemispheres
mice
during
spontaneous
licking
from
a
stationary
or
moving
water
spout.
We
found
rhythmic
with
both
spikes.
Increased
spike
firing
protrusion
induces
ipsiversive
bending
Unexpected
target
location
trigger
alter
subsequent
licks,
adjusting
trajectory.
Furthermore,
observed
increased
behavioural
state
at
start
end
bouts.
Using
machine
learning,
confirmed
alterations
cell
activity
accompany
licking,
different
often
exerting
heterogeneous
encoding
schemes.
Our
data
highlight
directional
movement
paramount
cerebellar
function
modulation
are
complementary
acquisition
execution
sensorimotor
coordination.
These
results
bring
us
closer
understanding
clinical
implications
disorders
swallowing.
image
Key
points
When
drinking,
make
directed
towards
source.
fire
rhythmically
tune
position
source
affects
direction
report
also
adjust
right
direction.
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
17
Опубликована: Апрель 11, 2023
When
we
interact
with
the
environment
around
us,
are
sometimes
active
participants,
making
directed
physical
motor
movements
and
other
times
only
mentally
engaging
our
environment,
taking
in
sensory
information
internally
planning
next
move
without
movement.
Traditionally,
cortical
regions
key
subcortical
structures
such
as
cerebellum
have
been
tightly
linked
to
initiation,
coordination,
behavior.
However,
recent
neuroimaging
studies
noted
activation
of
wider
networks
specifically
during
various
forms
processing,
including
observations
actions
mental
rehearsal
through
imagery.
This
phenomenon
cognitive
engagement
traditional
raises
question
how
these
brain
involved
initiation
movement
output.
Here,
will
review
evidence
for
distributed
network
execution,
observation,
imagery
human
well
potential
cerebellar
involvement
motor-related
cognition.
Converging
suggests
that
a
common
global
is
both
execution
observation
or
imagery,
specific
task-dependent
shifts
patterns.
We
further
discuss
underlying
cross-species
anatomical
support
functions
role
cerebrocerebellar
communication
action
Neuron,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
112(16), С. 2749 - 2764.e7
Опубликована: Июнь 12, 2024
In
classical
cerebellar
learning,
Purkinje
cells
(PkCs)
associate
climbing
fiber
(CF)
error
signals
with
predictive
granule
(GrCs)
that
were
active
just
prior
(∼150
ms).
The
cerebellum
also
contributes
to
behaviors
characterized
by
longer
timescales.
To
investigate
how
GrC-CF-PkC
circuits
might
learn
seconds-long
predictions,
we
imaged
simultaneous
GrC-CF
activity
over
days
of
forelimb
operant
conditioning
for
delayed
water
reward.
As
mice
learned
reward
timing,
numerous
GrCs
developed
anticipatory
ramping
at
different
rates
until
delivery,
followed
widespread
time-locked
CF
spiking.
Relearning
delays
further
lengthened
GrC
activations.
We
computed
CF-dependent
GrC→PkC
plasticity
rules,
demonstrating
reward-evoked
spikes
sufficed
grade
many
synapses
timing.
predicted
and
confirmed
PkCs
could
thereby
continuously
ramp
across
intervals
from
movement
Learning
thus
leads
new
temporal
bases
linking
predictors
remote
signals—a
strategy
well
suited
learning
track
the
long
common
in
cognitive
domains.
Journal of Neuroscience,
Год журнала:
2022,
Номер
42(10), С. 2103 - 2115
Опубликована: Янв. 21, 2022
Duchenne
muscular
dystrophy
(DMD),
the
most
common
form
of
childhood
dystrophy,
is
caused
by
mutations
in
dystrophin
gene.
In
addition
to
debilitating
muscle
degeneration,
patients
display
a
range
cognitive
deficits
thought
result
from
loss
normally
expressed
brain.
While
function
tissue
well
characterized,
its
role
brain
still
poorly
understood.
The
highest
expression
mouse
cerebellar
Purkinje
cells
(PCs),
where
it
colocalizes
with
GABA
A
receptor
clusters.
Using
ex
vivo
electrophysiological
recordings
connected
molecular
layer
interneuron
(MLI)–PC
pairs,
we
investigated
changes
inhibitory
synaptic
transmission
deficiency.
male
mdx
mice
(which
lack
long-form
dystrophin),
found
that
responses
at
MLI–PC
pairs
were
reduced
∼60%
because
both
decreased
quantal
response
amplitude
and
number
functional
vesicle
release
sites.
electron
microscopy,
significantly
fewer
smaller
anatomically
defined
synapses
contacting
soma
PCs
mice,
suggesting
may
play
critical
synapse
formation
and/or
maintenance.
Functionally,
MLI-evoked
pauses
PC
firing
acute
slices.
awake
showed
increased
sensory-evoked
simple
spike
positively
modulating
PCs,
consistent
feedforward
inhibition,
but
no
change
negatively
PCs.
These
data
suggest
deficiency
disrupts
signaling
circuit
patterns,
potentially
contributing
motor
observed
DMD
patients.
SIGNIFICANCE
STATEMENT
(DMD)
primarily
characterized
progressive
weakening
genetic
gene
for
dystrophin.
Dystrophin
also
CNS,
experience
nonprogressive
deficits.
pathophysiology
CNS
neurons
resulting
are
as
model,
specifically
strength
connections,
participates
maintenance
these
synapses.
This
work
provides
insight
into
establishes
neuronal
dysfunction,
which
underlie
DMD.