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Venturino A, Schulz R, De Jesús-Cortés H, Maes ME, Nagy B, Reilly-Andújar F, Colombo G, Cubero RJA, Schoot Uiterkamp FE, Bear MF, Siegert S. Microglia enable mature perineuronal nets disassembly upon anesthetic ketamine exposure or 60-Hz light entrainment in the healthy brain. Cell Rep 2021; 36:109313. [PMID: 34233180 PMCID: PMC8284881 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2020] [Revised: 11/20/2020] [Accepted: 06/04/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Perineuronal nets (PNNs), components of the extracellular matrix, preferentially coat parvalbumin-positive interneurons and constrain critical-period plasticity in the adult cerebral cortex. Current strategies to remove PNN are long-lasting, invasive, and trigger neuropsychiatric symptoms. Here, we apply repeated anesthetic ketamine as a method with minimal behavioral effect. We find that this paradigm strongly reduces PNN coating in the healthy adult brain and promotes juvenile-like plasticity. Microglia are critically involved in PNN loss because they engage with parvalbumin-positive neurons in their defined cortical layer. We identify external 60-Hz light-flickering entrainment to recapitulate microglia-mediated PNN removal. Importantly, 40-Hz frequency, which is known to remove amyloid plaques, does not induce PNN loss, suggesting microglia might functionally tune to distinct brain frequencies. Thus, our 60-Hz light-entrainment strategy provides an alternative form of PNN intervention in the healthy adult brain.
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- Alessandro Venturino
- Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria, Am Campus 1, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria, Am Campus 1, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria, Am Campus 1, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria, Am Campus 1, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria, Am Campus 1, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria, Am Campus 1, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria, Am Campus 1, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria.
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Karami S, Doroodmand MM, Taherianfar M, Mutabi-Alavi A, Nagshgar N. Mechanism behind the neuronal ephaptic coupling during synchronizing by specific brain-triggered wave as neuronal motor toolkit. Sci Rep 2021; 11:3683. [PMID: 33574428 PMCID: PMC7878924 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-82118-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2020] [Accepted: 01/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Probable mechanism behind the neuronal ephaptic coupling is investigated based on the introduction of "Brain"-triggered potential excitation signal smartly with a specific very low frequency (VLF) waves as a neuronal motor toolkit. Detection of this electric motor toolkit is attributed to in-vitro precise analyses of a neural network of snail, along to the disconnected snail's neuronal network as a control. This is achieved via rapid (real-time) electrical signals acquisition by blind patch-clamp method during micro-electrode implanting in the neurons at the gigaseal conditions by the surgery operations. This process is based on its waveform (potential excitation signal) detection by mathematical curve fitting process. The characterized waveform of this electrical signal is "Saw Tooth" that is smartly stimulated, alternatively, by the brain during triggering the action potential's (AP's) hyperpolarization zone at a certain time interval at the several µs levels. Triggering the neuron cells results in (1) observing a positive shift (10.0%, depending on the intensity of the triggering wave), and (2) major promotion in the electrical current from sub nano (n) to micro (µ) amper (nA, µA) levels. Direct tracing the time domain (i.e., electrical signal vs. time) and estimation of the frequency domain (diagram of electrical response vs. the applied electrical frequencies) by the "Discrete Fast Fourier Transform" algorithm approve the presence of bilateral and reversible electrical currents between axon and dendrite. This mechanism therefore opens a novel view about the neuronal motor toolkit mechanism, versus the general knowledge about the unilateral electrical current flow from axon to dendrite operations in as neural network. The reliability of this mechanism is evaluated via (1) sequential modulation and demodulation of the snail's neuron network by a simulation electrical functions and sequentially evaluation of the neuronal current sensitivity between pA and nA (during the promotion of the signal-to-noise ratio, via averaging of 30 ± 1 (n = 15) and recycling the electrical cycles before any neuronal response); and (2) operation of the process on the differentiated stem cells. The interstice behavior is attributed to the effective role of Ca2+ channels (besides Na+ and K+ ionic pumping), during hyper/hypo calcium processes, evidenced by inductively coupled plasma as the selected analytical method. This phenomenon is also modeled during proposing quadrupole well potential levels in the neuron systems. This mechanism therefore points to the microprocessor behavior of neuron networks. Stimulation of the neuronal system based on this mechanism, not only controls the sensitivity of neuron electrical stimulation, but also would open a light window for more efficient operating the neuronal connectivity during providing interruptions by phenomena such as neurolysis as well as an efficient treatment of neuron-based disorders.
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- Sajedeh Karami
- Department of Chemistry, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
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- Physiological Division of Department of Basic Science, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
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- Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
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- Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
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Li N, Chen S, Guo ZV, Chen H, Huo Y, Inagaki HK, Chen G, Davis C, Hansel D, Guo C, Svoboda K. Spatiotemporal constraints on optogenetic inactivation in cortical circuits. eLife 2019; 8:e48622. [PMID: 31736463 PMCID: PMC6892606 DOI: 10.7554/elife.48622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2019] [Accepted: 11/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Optogenetics allows manipulations of genetically and spatially defined neuronal populations with excellent temporal control. However, neurons are coupled with other neurons over multiple length scales, and the effects of localized manipulations thus spread beyond the targeted neurons. We benchmarked several optogenetic methods to inactivate small regions of neocortex. Optogenetic excitation of GABAergic neurons produced more effective inactivation than light-gated ion pumps. Transgenic mice expressing the light-dependent chloride channel GtACR1 produced the most potent inactivation. Generally, inactivation spread substantially beyond the photostimulation light, caused by strong coupling between cortical neurons. Over some range of light intensity, optogenetic excitation of inhibitory neurons reduced activity in these neurons, together with pyramidal neurons, a signature of inhibition-stabilized neural networks ('paradoxical effect'). The offset of optogenetic inactivation was followed by rebound excitation in a light dose-dependent manner, limiting temporal resolution. Our data offer guidance for the design of in vivo optogenetics experiments.
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- Nuo Li
- Department of NeuroscienceBaylor College of MedicineHoustonUnited States
- Janelia Research CampusAshburnUnited States
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- Janelia Research CampusAshburnUnited States
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- Janelia Research CampusAshburnUnited States
- School of MedicineTsinghua UniversityBeijingChina
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- School of MedicineTsinghua UniversityBeijingChina
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- School of MedicineTsinghua UniversityBeijingChina
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- Department of NeuroscienceBaylor College of MedicineHoustonUnited States
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- Department of NeuroscienceBaylor College of MedicineHoustonUnited States
- Janelia Research CampusAshburnUnited States
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- Center of Neurophysics, Physiology and Pathologies, CNRS-UMR8119ParisFrance
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Schlichting M, Díaz MM, Xin J, Rosbash M. Neuron-specific knockouts indicate the importance of network communication to Drosophila rhythmicity. eLife 2019; 8:e48301. [PMID: 31613223 PMCID: PMC6794074 DOI: 10.7554/elife.48301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2019] [Accepted: 09/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Animal circadian rhythms persist in constant darkness and are driven by intracellular transcription-translation feedback loops. Although these cellular oscillators communicate, isolated mammalian cellular clocks continue to tick away in darkness without intercellular communication. To investigate these issues in Drosophila, we assayed behavior as well as molecular rhythms within individual brain clock neurons while blocking communication within the ca. 150 neuron clock network. We also generated CRISPR-mediated neuron-specific circadian clock knockouts. The results point to two key clock neuron groups: loss of the clock within both regions but neither one alone has a strong behavioral phenotype in darkness; communication between these regions also contributes to circadian period determination. Under these dark conditions, the clock within one region persists without network communication. The clock within the famous PDF-expressing s-LNv neurons however was strongly dependent on network communication, likely because clock gene expression within these vulnerable sLNvs depends on neuronal firing or light.
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- Matthias Schlichting
- Department of BiologyHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis UniversityWalthamUnited States
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- Department of BiologyHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis UniversityWalthamUnited States
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- Department of BiologyHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis UniversityWalthamUnited States
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- Department of BiologyHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis UniversityWalthamUnited States
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Xia Q, Nyberg T. Inhibition of cortical neural networks using infrared laser. J Biophotonics 2019; 12:e201800403. [PMID: 30859700 DOI: 10.1002/jbio.201800403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2018] [Revised: 03/04/2019] [Accepted: 03/08/2019] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The aim of the present study is to optimize parameters for inhibiting neuronal activity safely and investigating thermal inhibition of rat cortex neural networks in vitro by continuous infrared (IR) laser. Rat cortex neurons were cultured on multi-electrode arrays until neural networks were formed with spontaneous neural activity. Neurons were then irradiated to inhibit the activity of the networks using different powers of 1550 nm IR laser light. A finite element heating model, calibrated by the open glass pipette method, was used to calculate temperature increases at different laser irradiation intensities. A damage signal ratio (DSR) was evaluated to avoid excessive heating that may damage cells. The DSR predicted that cortex neurons should be safe at temperatures up to 49.6°C for 30 seconds, but experiments suggested that cortex neurons should not be exposed to temperatures over 46°C for 30 seconds. Neural response experiments showed that the inhibition of neural activity is temperature dependent. The normal neural activity could be inhibited safely with an inhibition degree up to 80% and induced epileptiform activity could be suppressed. These results show that continuous IR laser radiations provide a possible way to safely inhibit the neural network activity.
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- Qingling Xia
- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
- Division of Neuronic Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Neuronic Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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Brugger MS, Grundeen S, Doyle A, Theogarajan L, Wixforth A, Westerhausen C. Orchestrating cells on a chip: Employing surface acoustic waves towards the formation of neural networks. Phys Rev E 2018; 98:012411. [PMID: 30110731 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.98.012411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2018] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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For the investigation of cell-cell interaction in general and for neural communication and future applications of neural networks, a controllable and well-defined network structure is crucial. We here propose the implementation of an acoustically driven system for tunable and deliberate stimulation and manipulation of cell growth on a chip. This piezoelectric chip allows us to generate a checkerboard-like standing surface acoustic wave pattern coupled to a fluid layer in a microfluidic chamber on top. Such a dynamically induced patterning lattice is shown to allow for the active positioning of the neurons and subsequent guided neurite outgrowth, thus finally overcoming the limitations of static approaches. After thorough characterization of the resulting tunable potential landscape, we successfully demonstrate cell adhesion and even growth of the such positioned cells within the well-defined pressure nodes. We demonstrate neuron growth at predetermined positions and observe a subsequent neurite outgrowth, even being correlated with the artificial potential landscape. For the very delicate and sensitive primary neural cells, this is a change of paradigm! Our experimental findings give us confidence that our hybrid lab-on-a-chip system in the near future will allow researchers to study cell-cell interaction of primary neurons. If scaled to a true network level, it will enable us to control and study how neural networks connect, interact, and communicate.
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- Manuel S Brugger
- Chair for Experimental Physics 1, University of Augsburg, 86159 Augsburg, Germany
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, 93106, USA
- Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106-5060, USA
- Center for Bioengineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106-5170, USA
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- Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106-5060, USA
- Center for Bioengineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106-5170, USA
- California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106-6105, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, 93106, USA
- Center for Bioengineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106-5170, USA
- California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106-6105, USA
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- Chair for Experimental Physics 1, University of Augsburg, 86159 Augsburg, Germany
- Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM), Schellingstraße 4, 80799 Munich, Germany
- Augsburg Center for Innovative Technologies (ACIT), 86159 Augsburg, Germany
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- Chair for Experimental Physics 1, University of Augsburg, 86159 Augsburg, Germany
- Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM), Schellingstraße 4, 80799 Munich, Germany
- Augsburg Center for Innovative Technologies (ACIT), 86159 Augsburg, Germany
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Bahrami N, Seibert TM, Karunamuni R, Bartsch H, Krishnan A, Farid N, Hattangadi-Gluth JA, McDonald CR. Altered Network Topology in Patients with Primary Brain Tumors After Fractionated Radiotherapy. Brain Connect 2017; 7:299-308. [PMID: 28486817 PMCID: PMC5510052 DOI: 10.1089/brain.2017.0494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Radiation therapy (RT) is a critical treatment modality for patients with brain tumors, although it can cause adverse effects. Recent data suggest that brain RT is associated with dose-dependent cortical atrophy, which could disrupt neocortical networks. This study examines whether brain RT affects structural network properties in brain tumor patients. We applied graph theory to MRI-derived cortical thickness estimates of 54 brain tumor patients before and after RT. Cortical surfaces were parcellated into 68 regions and correlation matrices were created for patients pre- and post-RT. Significant changes in graph network properties were tested using nonparametric permutation tests. Linear regressions were conducted to measure the association between dose and changes in nodal network connectivity. Increases in transitivity, modularity, and global efficiency (n = 54, p < 0.0001) were all observed in patients post-RT. Decreases in local efficiency (n = 54, p = 0.007) and clustering coefficient (n = 54, p = 0.005) were seen in regions receiving higher RT doses, including the inferior parietal lobule and rostral anterior cingulate. These findings demonstrate alterations in global and local network topology following RT, characterized by increased segregation of brain regions critical to cognition. These pathological network changes may contribute to the late delayed cognitive impairments observed in many patients following brain RT.
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- Naeim Bahrami
- Center for Multimodal Imaging and Genetics (CMIG), University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
- Multimodal Imaging Laboratory, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
- Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- Multimodal Imaging Laboratory, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
- Department of Radiation Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- Multimodal Imaging Laboratory, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
- Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- Multimodal Imaging Laboratory, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- Multimodal Imaging Laboratory, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
- Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- Center for Multimodal Imaging and Genetics (CMIG), University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
- Multimodal Imaging Laboratory, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
- Department of Radiation Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
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Yu K, Sohrabpour A, He B. Electrophysiological Source Imaging of Brain Networks Perturbed by Low-Intensity Transcranial Focused Ultrasound. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2016; 63:1787-1794. [PMID: 27448335 PMCID: PMC5247426 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2016.2591924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) has been introduced as a noninvasive neuromodulation technique with good spatial selectivity. We report an experimental investigation to detect noninvasive electrophysiological response induced by low-intensity tFUS in an in vivo animal model and perform electrophysiological source imaging (ESI) of tFUS-induced brain activity from noninvasive scalp EEG recordings. METHODS A single-element ultrasound transducer was used to generate low-intensity tFUS ( ) and induce brain activation at multiple selected sites in an in vivo rat model. Up to 16 scalp electrodes were used to record tFUS-induced EEG. Event-related potentials were analyzed in time, frequency, and spatial domains. Current source distributions were estimated by ESI to reconstruct spatiotemporal distributions of brain activation induced by tFUS. RESULTS Neuronal activation was observed following low-intensity tFUS, as correlated to tFUS intensity and sonication duration. ESI revealed initial focal activation in cortical area corresponding to tFUS stimulation site and the activation propagating to surrounding areas over time. CONCLUSION The present results demonstrate the feasibility of noninvasively recording brain electrophysiological response in vivo following low-intensity tFUS stimulation, and the feasibility of imaging spatiotemporal distributions of brain activation as induced by tFUS in vivo. SIGNIFICANCE The present approach may lead to a new means of imaging brain activity using tFUS perturbation and a closed-loop ESI-guided tFUS neuromodulation modality.
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Kumar SS, Wülfing J, Okujeni S, Boedecker J, Riedmiller M, Egert U. Autonomous Optimization of Targeted Stimulation of Neuronal Networks. PLoS Comput Biol 2016; 12:e1005054. [PMID: 27509295 PMCID: PMC4979901 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2016] [Accepted: 07/09/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Driven by clinical needs and progress in neurotechnology, targeted interaction with neuronal networks is of increasing importance. Yet, the dynamics of interaction between intrinsic ongoing activity in neuronal networks and their response to stimulation is unknown. Nonetheless, electrical stimulation of the brain is increasingly explored as a therapeutic strategy and as a means to artificially inject information into neural circuits. Strategies using regular or event-triggered fixed stimuli discount the influence of ongoing neuronal activity on the stimulation outcome and are therefore not optimal to induce specific responses reliably. Yet, without suitable mechanistic models, it is hardly possible to optimize such interactions, in particular when desired response features are network-dependent and are initially unknown. In this proof-of-principle study, we present an experimental paradigm using reinforcement-learning (RL) to optimize stimulus settings autonomously and evaluate the learned control strategy using phenomenological models. We asked how to (1) capture the interaction of ongoing network activity, electrical stimulation and evoked responses in a quantifiable ‘state’ to formulate a well-posed control problem, (2) find the optimal state for stimulation, and (3) evaluate the quality of the solution found. Electrical stimulation of generic neuronal networks grown from rat cortical tissue in vitro evoked bursts of action potentials (responses). We show that the dynamic interplay of their magnitudes and the probability to be intercepted by spontaneous events defines a trade-off scenario with a network-specific unique optimal latency maximizing stimulus efficacy. An RL controller was set to find this optimum autonomously. Across networks, stimulation efficacy increased in 90% of the sessions after learning and learned latencies strongly agreed with those predicted from open-loop experiments. Our results show that autonomous techniques can exploit quantitative relationships underlying activity-response interaction in biological neuronal networks to choose optimal actions. Simple phenomenological models can be useful to validate the quality of the resulting controllers. Electrical stimulation of the brain is increasingly used to alleviate the symptoms of a range of neurological disorders and as a means to artificially inject information into neural circuits in neuroprosthetic applications. Machine learning has been proposed to find optimal stimulation settings autonomously. However, this approach is impeded by the complexity of the interaction between the stimulus and the activity of the network, which makes it difficult to test how good the result actually is. We used phenomenological models of the interaction between stimulus and spontaneous activity in a neuronal network to design a testable machine learning challenge and evaluate the quality of the solution found by the algorithm. In this task, the learning algorithm had to find a solution that balances competing interdependencies of ongoing neuronal activity with opposing effects on the efficacy of stimulation. We show that machine learning can successfully solve this task and that the solutions found are close to the optimal settings to maximize the efficacy of stimulation. Since the paradigm involves several typical problems found in other settings, such concepts could help to formalize machine learning problems in more complex biological networks and to test the quality of their performance.
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- Sreedhar S. Kumar
- Laboratory of Biomicrotechnology, IMTEK - Department of Microsystems Engineering, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Bernstein Center Freiburg, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Machine Learning Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Laboratory of Biomicrotechnology, IMTEK - Department of Microsystems Engineering, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Bernstein Center Freiburg, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Machine Learning Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- BrainLinks-BrainTools Cluster of Excellence, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Machine Learning Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Laboratory of Biomicrotechnology, IMTEK - Department of Microsystems Engineering, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Bernstein Center Freiburg, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- BrainLinks-BrainTools Cluster of Excellence, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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The study aims to investigate the radiation-induced brain functional alterations in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients who received radiotherapy (RT) using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and statistic scale.The fMRI data of 35 NPC patients with RT and 24 demographically matched untreated NPC patients were acquired. Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) was also measured to evaluate their global cognition performance. Multivariate pattern analysis was performed to find the significantly altered functional connections between these 2 groups, while the linear correlation level was detected between the altered functional connections and the MoCA scores.Forty-five notably altered functional connections were found, which were mainly located between 3 brain networks, the cerebellum, sensorimotor, and cingulo-opercular. With strictly false discovery rate correction, 5 altered functional connections were shown to have significant linear correlations with the MoCA scores, that is, the connections between the vermis and hippocampus, cerebellum lobule VI and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, precuneus and dorsal frontal cortex, cuneus and middle occipital lobe, and insula and cuneus. Besides, the connectivity between the vermis and hippocampus was also significantly correlated with the attention score, 1 of the 7 subscores of the MoCA.The present study provides new insights into the radiation-induced functional connectivity impairments in NPC patients. The results showed that the RT may induce the cognitive impairments, especially the attention alterations. The 45 altered functional connections, especially the 5 altered functional connections that were significantly correlated to the MoCA scores, may serve as the potential biomarkers of the RT-induced brain functional impairments and provide valuable targets for further functional recovery treatment.
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- Qiongmin Ma
- College of Mechatronics and Automation, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan
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- Department of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- College of Mechatronics and Automation, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan
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- College of Mechatronics and Automation, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan
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- College of Mechatronics and Automation, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan
- Correspondence: Prof Dewen Hu, College of Mechatronics and Automation, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan 410073, China (e-mail: ); Prof Shijun Qiu, Department of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510405, China (e-mail: )
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- Department of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Correspondence: Prof Dewen Hu, College of Mechatronics and Automation, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan 410073, China (e-mail: ); Prof Shijun Qiu, Department of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510405, China (e-mail: )
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Marre O, Botella-Soler V, Simmons KD, Mora T, Tkačik G, Berry MJ. High Accuracy Decoding of Dynamical Motion from a Large Retinal Population. PLoS Comput Biol 2015; 11:e1004304. [PMID: 26132103 PMCID: PMC4489022 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2014] [Accepted: 04/28/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Motion tracking is a challenge the visual system has to solve by reading out the retinal population. It is still unclear how the information from different neurons can be combined together to estimate the position of an object. Here we recorded a large population of ganglion cells in a dense patch of salamander and guinea pig retinas while displaying a bar moving diffusively. We show that the bar's position can be reconstructed from retinal activity with a precision in the hyperacuity regime using a linear decoder acting on 100+ cells. We then took advantage of this unprecedented precision to explore the spatial structure of the retina's population code. The classical view would have suggested that the firing rates of the cells form a moving hill of activity tracking the bar's position. Instead, we found that most ganglion cells in the salamander fired sparsely and idiosyncratically, so that their neural image did not track the bar. Furthermore, ganglion cell activity spanned an area much larger than predicted by their receptive fields, with cells coding for motion far in their surround. As a result, population redundancy was high, and we could find multiple, disjoint subsets of neurons that encoded the trajectory with high precision. This organization allows for diverse collections of ganglion cells to represent high-accuracy motion information in a form easily read out by downstream neural circuits.
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- Olivier Marre
- Department of Molecular Biology and Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, United States of America
- Institut de la Vision, INSERM UMRS 968, UPMC UM 80, CNRS UMR 7210, Paris, France
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America
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- Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS and UPMC, Paris, France
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- Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, United States of America
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Berlinguer-Palmini R, Narducci R, Merhan K, Dilaghi A, Moroni F, Masi A, Scartabelli T, Landucci E, Sili M, Schettini A, McGovern B, Maskaant P, Degenaar P, Mannaioni G. Arrays of microLEDs and astrocytes: biological amplifiers to optogenetically modulate neuronal networks reducing light requirement. PLoS One 2014; 9:e108689. [PMID: 25265500 PMCID: PMC4180921 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2014] [Accepted: 08/23/2014] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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In the modern view of synaptic transmission, astrocytes are no longer confined to the role of merely supportive cells. Although they do not generate action potentials, they nonetheless exhibit electrical activity and can influence surrounding neurons through gliotransmitter release. In this work, we explored whether optogenetic activation of glial cells could act as an amplification mechanism to optical neural stimulation via gliotransmission to the neural network. We studied the modulation of gliotransmission by selective photo-activation of channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2) and by means of a matrix of individually addressable super-bright microLEDs (μLEDs) with an excitation peak at 470 nm. We combined Ca2+ imaging techniques and concurrent patch-clamp electrophysiology to obtain subsequent glia/neural activity. First, we tested the μLEDs efficacy in stimulating ChR2-transfected astrocyte. ChR2-induced astrocytic current did not desensitize overtime, and was linearly increased and prolonged by increasing μLED irradiance in terms of intensity and surface illumination. Subsequently, ChR2 astrocytic stimulation by broad-field LED illumination with the same spectral profile, increased both glial cells and neuronal calcium transient frequency and sEPSCs suggesting that few ChR2-transfected astrocytes were able to excite surrounding not-ChR2-transfected astrocytes and neurons. Finally, by using the μLEDs array to selectively light stimulate ChR2 positive astrocytes we were able to increase the synaptic activity of single neurons surrounding it. In conclusion, ChR2-transfected astrocytes and μLEDs system were shown to be an amplifier of synaptic activity in mixed corticalneuronal and glial cells culture.
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- Rolando Berlinguer-Palmini
- School of Electric and Electronic Engineering – Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research and Child Health Section of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- School of Electric and Electronic Engineering – Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research and Child Health Section of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research and Child Health Section of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research and Child Health Section of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Health Science, Section of Clinical Pharmacology and Oncology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Health Science, Section of Clinical Pharmacology and Oncology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research and Child Health Section of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Health Science, Section of Clinical Pharmacology and Oncology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
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- School of Electric and Electronic Engineering – Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research and Child Health Section of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Goddard CA, Mysore SP, Bryant AS, Huguenard JR, Knudsen EI. Spatially reciprocal inhibition of inhibition within a stimulus selection network in the avian midbrain. PLoS One 2014; 9:e85865. [PMID: 24465755 PMCID: PMC3897538 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2013] [Accepted: 12/05/2013] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Reciprocal inhibition between inhibitory projection neurons has been proposed as the most efficient circuit motif to achieve the flexible selection of one stimulus among competing alternatives. However, whether such a motif exists in networks that mediate selection is unclear. Here, we study the connectivity within the nucleus isthmi pars magnocellularis (Imc), a GABAergic nucleus that mediates competitive selection in the midbrain stimulus selection network. Using laser photostimulation of caged glutamate, we find that feedback inhibitory connectivity is global within the Imc. Unlike typical lateral inhibition in other circuits, intra-Imc inhibition remains functionally powerful over long distances. Anatomically, we observed long-range axonal projections and retrograde somatic labeling from focal injections of bi-directional tracers in the Imc, consistent with spatial reciprocity of intra-Imc inhibition. Together, the data indicate that spatially reciprocal inhibition of inhibition occurs throughout the Imc. Thus, the midbrain selection circuit possesses the most efficient circuit motif possible for fast, reliable, and flexible selection.
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- C. Alex Goddard
- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Neurology, Stanford Medical School, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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Hu K, Meijer JH, Shea SA, vanderLeest HT, Pittman-Polletta B, Houben T, van Oosterhout F, Deboer T, Scheer FAJL. Fractal patterns of neural activity exist within the suprachiasmatic nucleus and require extrinsic network interactions. PLoS One 2012. [PMID: 23185285 PMCID: PMC3502397 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The mammalian central circadian pacemaker (the suprachiasmatic nucleus, SCN) contains thousands of neurons that are coupled through a complex network of interactions. In addition to the established role of the SCN in generating rhythms of ~24 hours in many physiological functions, the SCN was recently shown to be necessary for normal self-similar/fractal organization of motor activity and heart rate over a wide range of time scales--from minutes to 24 hours. To test whether the neural network within the SCN is sufficient to generate such fractal patterns, we studied multi-unit neural activity of in vivo and in vitro SCNs in rodents. In vivo SCN-neural activity exhibited fractal patterns that are virtually identical in mice and rats and are similar to those in motor activity at time scales from minutes up to 10 hours. In addition, these patterns remained unchanged when the main afferent signal to the SCN, namely light, was removed. However, the fractal patterns of SCN-neural activity are not autonomous within the SCN as these patterns completely broke down in the isolated in vitro SCN despite persistence of circadian rhythmicity. Thus, SCN-neural activity is fractal in the intact organism and these fractal patterns require network interactions between the SCN and extra-SCN nodes. Such a fractal control network could underlie the fractal regulation observed in many physiological functions that involve the SCN, including motor control and heart rate regulation.
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- Kun Hu
- Medical Biodynamics Program, Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Medical Chronobiology Program, Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- * E-mail: (KH); (FAJLS)
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Laboratory for Neurophysiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Medical Chronobiology Program, Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Laboratory for Neurophysiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Medical Biodynamics Program, Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Medical Chronobiology Program, Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Laboratory for Neurophysiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Laboratory for Neurophysiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Laboratory for Neurophysiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Medical Chronobiology Program, Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- * E-mail: (KH); (FAJLS)
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Husson SJ, Liewald JF, Schultheis C, Stirman JN, Lu H, Gottschalk A. Microbial light-activatable proton pumps as neuronal inhibitors to functionally dissect neuronal networks in C. elegans. PLoS One 2012; 7:e40937. [PMID: 22815873 PMCID: PMC3397962 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2012] [Accepted: 06/14/2012] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Essentially any behavior in simple and complex animals depends on neuronal network function. Currently, the best-defined system to study neuronal circuits is the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, as the connectivity of its 302 neurons is exactly known. Individual neurons can be activated by photostimulation of Channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2) using blue light, allowing to directly probe the importance of a particular neuron for the respective behavioral output of the network under study. In analogy, other excitable cells can be inhibited by expressing Halorhodopsin from Natronomonas pharaonis (NpHR) and subsequent illumination with yellow light. However, inhibiting C. elegans neurons using NpHR is difficult. Recently, proton pumps from various sources were established as valuable alternative hyperpolarizers. Here we show that archaerhodopsin-3 (Arch) from Halorubrum sodomense and a proton pump from the fungus Leptosphaeria maculans (Mac) can be utilized to effectively inhibit excitable cells in C. elegans. Arch is the most powerful hyperpolarizer when illuminated with yellow or green light while the action spectrum of Mac is more blue-shifted, as analyzed by light-evoked behaviors and electrophysiology. This allows these tools to be combined in various ways with ChR2 to analyze different subsets of neurons within a circuit. We exemplify this by means of the polymodal aversive sensory ASH neurons, and the downstream command interneurons to which ASH neurons signal to trigger a reversal followed by a directional turn. Photostimulating ASH and subsequently inhibiting command interneurons using two-color illumination of different body segments, allows investigating temporal aspects of signaling downstream of ASH.
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- Steven J. Husson
- Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Institute of Biochemistry, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- * E-mail: (SJH); (AG)
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- Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Institute of Biochemistry, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Institute of Biochemistry, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Interdisciplinary Bioengineering Program, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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- Interdisciplinary Bioengineering Program, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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- Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Institute of Biochemistry, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- * E-mail: (SJH); (AG)
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Lacefield CO, Itskov V, Reardon T, Hen R, Gordon JA. Effects of adult-generated granule cells on coordinated network activity in the dentate gyrus. Hippocampus 2010; 22:106-16. [PMID: 20882540 DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/25/2010] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Throughout the adult life of most mammals, new neurons are continuously generated in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampal formation. Recent work has documented specific cognitive deficits after elimination of adult hippocampal neurogenesis in rodents, suggesting that these neurons may contribute to information processing in hippocampal circuits. Young adult-born neurons exhibit enhanced excitability and have altered capacity for synaptic plasticity in hippocampal slice preparations in vitro. Still, little is known about the effect of adult-born granule cells on hippocampal activity in vivo. To assess the impact of these new neurons on neural circuits in the dentate, we recorded perforant-path evoked responses and spontaneous network activity from the dentate gyrus of urethane-anesthetized mice whose hippocampus had been focally X-irradiated to eliminate the population of young adult-born granule cells. After X-irradiation, perforant-path responses were reduced in magnitude. In contrast, there was a marked increase in the amplitude of spontaneous γ-frequency bursts in the dentate gyrus and hilus, as well as increased synchronization of dentate neuron firing to these bursts. A similar increase in gamma burst amplitude was also found in animals in which adult neurogenesis was eliminated using the GFAP:TK pharmacogenetic ablation technique. These data suggest that young neurons may inhibit or destabilize recurrent network activity in the dentate and hilus. This unexpected result yields a new perspective on how a modest number of young adult-generated granule cells may modulate activity in the larger population of mature granule cells, rather than acting solely as independent encoding units.
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- Clay O Lacefield
- Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Dr., Kolb Annex, Unit 87, NewYork, NY 10032, USA.
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The World Health Organization estimates depression as a serious threat to the health of millions of people worldwide. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the ongoing research devoted to the investigation of a possibility to use low-field electromagnetic stimulation of the human brain in the treatment of depressive disorder. In the course of the work the 3D models of transcranial magnetic stimulation and low-field magnetic stimulation based upon the use of a layered sphere head model have been developed. An initial approach towards the realistic human head reconstruction has been made. The revealed order of the stimulating electromagnetic field suitable for operation makes it possible to draft a technical specification for the stimulation device.
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- Dmitry Lazutkin
- Division of Biological Signal Processing, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics, Ilmenau University of Technology, PO Box 100565, 98684, Germany.
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Fuggetta G, Pavone EF, Fiaschi A, Manganotti P. Acute modulation of cortical oscillatory activities during short trains of high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the human motor cortex: a combined EEG and TMS study. Hum Brain Mapp 2008; 29:1-13. [PMID: 17318833 PMCID: PMC6870897 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In this study, a combined repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation/electroencephalography (rTMS/EEG) method was used to explore the acute changes of cortical oscillatory activity induced by intermittent short trains of high-frequency (5-Hz) rTMS delivered over the left primary motor cortex (M1). We evaluated the electrophysiological reaction to magnetic stimulation during and 2-4 s after 20 trains of 20-pulses rTMS, using event-related power (ERPow) that reflects the regional oscillatory activity of neural assemblies, and event-related coherence (ERCoh) that reflects the interregional functional connectivity of oscillatory neural activity. These event-related transformations were for the upper alpha (10-12 Hz) and beta (18-22 Hz) frequency ranges, respectively. For the alpha band, threshold rTMS and subthreshold rTMS induced an ERPow increase during the trains of stimulation mainly in frontal and central regions ipsilateral to stimulation. For the beta band, a similar synchronization of cortical oscillations for both rTMS intensities was seen. Moreover, subthreshold rTMS affected alpha-band activity more than threshold rTMS, inducing a specific ERCoh decrease over the posterior regions during the trains of stimulation. For beta band, the decrease in functional coupling was observed mainly during threshold rTMS. These findings provide a better understanding of the cortical effects of high-frequency rTMS, whereby the induction of oscillations reflects the capacity of electromagnetic pulses to alter regional and interregional synaptic transmissions of neural populations.
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- Giorgio Fuggetta
- Section of Neurological Rehabilitation, Department of Neurological and Visual Sciences, University of Verona, Verona 37134, Italy.
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Bell HJ, Inoue T, Shum K, Luk C, Syed NI. Peripheral oxygen-sensing cells directly modulate the output of an identified respiratory central pattern generating neuron. Eur J Neurosci 2007; 25:3537-50. [PMID: 17610573 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05607.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Breathing is an essential homeostatic behavior regulated by central neuronal networks, often called central pattern generators (CPGs). Despite ongoing advances in our understanding of the neural control of breathing, the basic mechanisms by which peripheral input modulates the activities of the central respiratory CPG remain elusive. This lack of fundamental knowledge vis-à-vis the role of peripheral influences in the control of the respiratory CPG is due in large part to the complexity of mammalian respiratory control centres. We have therefore developed a simpler invertebrate model to study the basic cellular and synaptic mechanisms by which a peripheral chemosensory input affects the central respiratory CPG. Here we report on the identification and characterization of peripheral chemoreceptor cells (PCRCs) that relay hypoxia-sensitive chemosensory information to the known respiratory CPG neuron right pedal dorsal 1 in the mollusk Lymnaea stagnalis. Selective perfusion of these PCRCs with hypoxic saline triggered bursting activity in these neurons and when isolated in cell culture these cells also demonstrated hypoxic sensitivity that resulted in membrane depolarization and spiking activity. When cocultured with right pedal dorsal 1, the PCRCs developed synapses that exhibited a form of short-term synaptic plasticity in response to hypoxia. Finally, osphradial denervation in intact animals significantly perturbed respiratory activity compared with their sham counterparts. This study provides evidence for direct synaptic connectivity between a peripheral regulatory element and a central respiratory CPG neuron, revealing a potential locus for hypoxia-induced synaptic plasticity underlying breathing behavior.
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- Harold J Bell
- Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 4N1.
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Gerasimenko Y, Roy RR, Edgerton VR. Epidural stimulation: comparison of the spinal circuits that generate and control locomotion in rats, cats and humans. Exp Neurol 2007; 209:417-25. [PMID: 17850791 PMCID: PMC2288525 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2007.07.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2007] [Accepted: 07/20/2007] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Although epidural stimulation is a technique that has been used for a number of years to treat individuals with a spinal cord injury, the intended outcome has been to suppress plasticity and pain. Over the last decade considerable progress has been made in realizing the potential of epidural stimulation to facilitate posture and locomotion in subjects with severe spinal cord injury who lack the ability to stand or to step. This progress has resulted primarily from experiments with mice, rats and cats having a complete spinal cord transection at a mid-thoracic level and in humans with a complete spinal cord injury. This review describes some of these experiments performed after the complete elimination of supraspinal input that demonstrates that the circuitry necessary to control remarkably normal locomotion appears to reside within the lumbosacral region of the spinal cord. These experiments, however, also demonstrate the essential role of processing proprioceptive information associated with weight-bearing stepping or standing by the spinal circuitry. For example, relatively simple tonic signals provided to the dorsum of the spinal cord epidurally can result in complex and highly adaptive locomotor patterns. Experiments emphasizing a significant complementary effect of epidural stimulation when combined with pharmacological facilitation, e.g., serotonergic agonists, and/or chronic step training also are described. Finally, a major point emphasized in this review is the striking similarity of the lumbosacral circuitry controlling locomotion in the rat and in the human.
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- Yury Gerasimenko
- Department of Physiological Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095
- Pavlov Institute of Physiology, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia
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- Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095
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- Department of Physiological Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095
- Department of Neurobiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095
- Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095
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Groc L, Choquet D. [Optical control of neuronal network activity]. Med Sci (Paris) 2007; 23:585-7. [PMID: 17631830 DOI: 10.1051/medsci/20072367585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Laurent Groc
- Unité Physiologie Cellulaire de la Synapse, UMR 5091 CNRS, Université Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux 33077, France.
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Zhang F, Wang LP, Brauner M, Liewald JF, Kay K, Watzke N, Wood PG, Bamberg E, Nagel G, Gottschalk A, Deisseroth K. Multimodal fast optical interrogation of neural circuitry. Nature 2007; 446:633-9. [PMID: 17410168 DOI: 10.1038/nature05744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1192] [Impact Index Per Article: 70.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2006] [Accepted: 03/14/2007] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Our understanding of the cellular implementation of systems-level neural processes like action, thought and emotion has been limited by the availability of tools to interrogate specific classes of neural cells within intact, living brain tissue. Here we identify and develop an archaeal light-driven chloride pump (NpHR) from Natronomonas pharaonis for temporally precise optical inhibition of neural activity. NpHR allows either knockout of single action potentials, or sustained blockade of spiking. NpHR is compatible with ChR2, the previous optical excitation technology we have described, in that the two opposing probes operate at similar light powers but with well-separated action spectra. NpHR, like ChR2, functions in mammals without exogenous cofactors, and the two probes can be integrated with calcium imaging in mammalian brain tissue for bidirectional optical modulation and readout of neural activity. Likewise, NpHR and ChR2 can be targeted together to Caenorhabditis elegans muscle and cholinergic motor neurons to control locomotion bidirectionally. NpHR and ChR2 form a complete system for multimodal, high-speed, genetically targeted, all-optical interrogation of living neural circuits.
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- Feng Zhang
- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Serrano GE, Martínez-Rubio C, Miller MW. Endogenous motor neuron properties contribute to a program-specific phase of activity in the multifunctional feeding central pattern generator of Aplysia. J Neurophysiol 2007; 98:29-42. [PMID: 17392419 DOI: 10.1152/jn.01062.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Multifunctional central pattern generators (CPGs) are circuits of neurons that can generate manifold actions from a single effector system. This study examined a bilateral pair of pharyngeal motor neurons, designated B67, that participate in the multifunctional feeding network of Aplysia californica. Fictive buccal motor programs (BMPs) were elicited with four distinct stimulus paradigms to assess the activity of B67 during ingestive versus egestive patterns. In both classes of programs, B67 fired during the phase of radula protraction and received a potent inhibitory postsynaptic potential (IPSP) during fictive radula retraction. When programs were ingestive, the retraction phase IPSP exhibited a depolarizing sag and was followed by a postinhibitory rebound (PIR) that could generate a postretraction phase of impulse activity. When programs were egestive, the depolarizing sag potential and PIR were both diminished or were not present. Examination of the membrane properties of B67 disclosed a cesium-sensitive depolarizing sag, a corresponding I(h)-like current, and PIR in its responses to hyperpolarizing pulses. Direct IPSPs originating from the influential CPG retraction phase interneuron B64 were also found to activate the sag potential and PIR of B67. Dopamine, a modulator that can promote ingestive behavior in this system, enhanced the sag potential, I(h)-like current, and PIR of B67. Finally, a pharyngeal muscle contraction followed the radula retraction phase of ingestive, but not egestive motor patterns. It is proposed that regulation of the intrinsic properties of this motor neuron can contribute to generating a program-specific phase of motor activity.
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- Geidy E Serrano
- Institute of Neurobiology and Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Homeostatic regulation in the brain is thought to be achieved through a control of the synaptic strength by close interactions between excitation and inhibition in cortical circuits. We recorded in a layer 5 pyramidal neuron of rat cortex the composite response to an electrical stimulation of various layers (2-3, 4 or 6). Decomposition of the global conductance change in its excitatory and inhibitory components permits a direct measurement of excitation-inhibition (E-I) balance. Whatever the stimulated layer was, afferent inputs led to a conductance change consisting of 20% excitation and 80% inhibition. Changing synaptic strengths in cortical networks by using a high-frequency of stimulation (HFS) protocol or a low-frequency of stimulation (LFS) protocol (classically used to induce long-term potentiation or long-term depression at the synaptic level) were checked in order to disrupt this balance. Application of HFS protocols in layers 2-3, 4 or 6, or of LFS protocols in layer 4 induced, respectively, long-term paralleled increases or long-term paralleled decreases in E and I which did not change the E-I balance. LFS protocols in layers 2-3 or 6 decreased E but not I and disrupted the balance. It is proposed that regulatory mechanisms might be mainly sustained by recurrent connectivity between excitatory and inhibitory neuronal circuits and by modulation of shunting GABA(A) inhibition in the layer 5 pyramidal neuron.
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- Nicolas Le Roux
- CNRS, Institut de Neurobiologie Alfred Fessard, FRC2118, Laboratoire de Neurobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, UPR9040, Gif sur Yvette, F-91198, France
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Kozlov AK, Lansner A, Grillner S, Kotaleski JH. A hemicord locomotor network of excitatory interneurons: a simulation study. Biol Cybern 2007; 96:229-43. [PMID: 17180687 DOI: 10.1007/s00422-006-0132-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2006] [Accepted: 09/26/2006] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Locomotor burst generation is simulated using a full-scale network model of the unilateral excitatory interneuronal population. Earlier small-scale models predicted that a population of excitatory neurons would be sufficient to produce burst activity, and this has recently been experimentally confirmed. Here we simulate the hemicord activity induced under various experimental conditions, including pharmacological activation by NMDA and AMPA as well as electrical stimulation. The model network comprises a realistic number of cells and synaptic connectivity patterns. Using similar distributions of cellular and synaptic parameters, as have been estimated experimentally, a large variation in dynamic characteristics like firing rates, burst, and cycle durations were seen in single cells. On the network level an overall rhythm was generated because the synaptic interactions cause partial synchronization within the population. This network rhythm not only emerged despite the distributed cellular parameters but relied on this variability, in particular, in reproducing variations of the activity during the cycle and showing recruitment in interneuronal populations. A slow rhythm (0.4-2 Hz) can be induced by tonic activation of NMDA-sensitive channels, which are voltage dependent and generate depolarizing plateaus. The rhythm emerges through a synchronization of bursts of the individual neurons. A fast rhythm (4-12 Hz), induced by AMPA, relies on spike synchronization within the population, and each burst is composed of single spikes produced by different neurons. The dynamic range of the fast rhythm is limited by the ability of the network to synchronize oscillations and depends on the strength of synaptic connections and the duration of the slow after hyperpolarization. The model network also produces prolonged bouts of rhythmic activity in response to brief electrical activations, as seen experimentally. The mutual excitation can sustain long-lasting activity for a realistic set of synaptic parameters. The bout duration depends on the strength of excitatory synaptic connections, the level of persistent depolarization, and the influx of Ca(2+) ions and activation of Ca(2+)-dependent K(+) current.
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- A K Kozlov
- Computational Biology and Neurocomputing, School of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 100 44, Sweden.
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Collins B, Blau J. Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day: circadian timekeeping in Drosophila. Pflugers Arch 2007; 454:857-67. [PMID: 17226053 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-006-0188-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2006] [Accepted: 11/03/2006] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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"Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day, and for once I'm inclined to believe Withnail is right. We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell... What we need is harmony. Fresh air. Stuff like that" "Bruce Robinson (1986, ref. 1)". Although a stopped Drosophila clock probably does not tell the right time even once a day, recent findings have demonstrated that accurate circadian time-keeping is dependent on harmony between groups of clock neurons within the brain. Furthermore, when harmony between the environment and the endogenous clock is lost, as during jet lag, we definitely feel unwell. In this review, we provide an overview of the current understanding of circadian rhythms in Drosophila, focussing on recent discoveries that demonstrate how approximately 100 neurons within the Drosophila brain control the behaviour of the whole fly, and how these rhythms respond to the environment.
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MESH Headings
- Adaptation, Biological/genetics
- Adaptation, Biological/physiology
- Adaptation, Biological/radiation effects
- Animals
- Biological Clocks/physiology
- Biological Clocks/radiation effects
- Circadian Rhythm/physiology
- Circadian Rhythm/radiation effects
- Drosophila/anatomy & histology
- Drosophila/physiology
- Drosophila Proteins/physiology
- Drosophila Proteins/radiation effects
- Feedback, Physiological
- Genes, Insect/physiology
- Light
- Models, Neurological
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Nerve Net/physiology
- Nerve Net/radiation effects
- Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate/cytology
- Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate/physiology
- Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate/radiation effects
- Thermosensing/genetics
- Thermosensing/physiology
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- Ben Collins
- Department of Biology, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003, USA
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Castro-Alamancos MA. What generates whisking? Focus on: "The whisking rhythm generator: a novel mammalian network for the generation of movement". J Neurophysiol 2007; 97:1883-4. [PMID: 17202236 DOI: 10.1152/jn.01358.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Koester P, Sakowski J, Baumann W, Glock HW, Gimsa J. A new exposure system for the in vitro detection of GHz field effects on neuronal networks. Bioelectrochemistry 2007; 70:104-14. [PMID: 16784899 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2006.03.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2005] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The possible effects of high-frequency electromagnetic fields (EMF) on biological systems are a subject of public concern and scientific discussion. It is generally accepted that the absorption of part of the field energy may cause a temperature rise in biological tissue. Nevertheless, our setup aims to detect possible athermal effects on the electric activity of neuronal in vitro networks. Such networks were formed by primary neurons derived from the murine frontal cortex and cultivated on micro-sensor chips. The action potentials of the neurons were detected in real time by an integrated, electrically passive microelectrode array. For EMF exposure, the chips were introduced into a rectangular wave-guide that could be operated in the propagating or standing wave modes. The drive signals were either continuous waves (1.9-2.2 GHz) or a generic mobile phone signal (UMTS-standard) of up to approximately 8 W. An on-chip sensor allowed the temperature progression to be recorded. In addition, ISFETs and Clark-like electrodes were integrated for the on-chip detection of pH and O(2), respectively.
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- Philipp Koester
- University of Rostock, Institute of Biology, Chair of Biophysics, Gertrudenstr. 11A, D-18057 Rostock, Germany
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Reliable, stimulus-specific temporal patterns of action potentials have been proposed to encode information in many brain areas, perhaps most notably in the olfactory system. Analysis of such temporal coding has focused almost exclusively on excitatory neurons. Thus, the role of networks of inhibitory interneurons in establishing and maintaining this reliability is unclear. Here we use imaging of population activity in vitro to investigate the mechanisms of temporal pattern generation in mouse olfactory bulb inhibitory interneurons. We show that activity of these interneurons evolves slowly in time but that individual neurons fire at reliable times, with a timescale similar to the slow changes in the patterns of odor-evoked activity and to odor discrimination. Most strikingly, the latency of a single granule cell is highly reliable from trial to trial during repeated stimulation of the same glomerulus, whereas this same cell will have a markedly different latency when a different glomerulus is activated. These data suggest that the timing of granule cell-mediated inhibition in the olfactory bulb is tightly regulated by the source of input and that inhibition may contribute to the generation of reliable temporal patterns of mitral cell activity.
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- Vikrant Kapoor
- Department of Biological Sciences and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
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Fulton S, Woodside B, Shizgal P. Potentiation of brain stimulation reward by weight loss: evidence for functional heterogeneity in brain reward circuitry. Behav Brain Res 2006; 174:56-63. [PMID: 16916549 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2006] [Revised: 07/03/2006] [Accepted: 07/05/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Physiological need states can influence goal-directed behavior by modulating the neural circuitry underlying the rewarding effects of stimuli and behaviors. Direct electrical stimulation of this circuitry produces a powerful rewarding effect, which is called brain stimulation reward. Chronic food restriction resulting in body weight loss potentiates brain stimulation reward, but in only in a subset of cases. This could reflect individual differences between rats or subtle difference in electrode location that lead to differential excitation of functionally different components of the neural circuitry underlying brain stimulation reward. To distinguish between these views, the influence of chronic food restriction on brain stimulation reward was assessed in rats bearing multiple stimulation electrodes. In 5 of 13 cases, the rewarding effects produced by stimulating different sites in the same rat were altered differentially by weight loss. This finding is interpreted in terms of the subdivision of brain reward circuitry along functional and anatomical lines.
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- Stephanie Fulton
- Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology, Concordia University, Montréal, Qué., Canada.
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Cerebellar Purkinje cells (PCs) receive GABAergic input that undergoes powerful retrograde modulation by presynaptic cannabinoid and glutamate receptors. Here we examine a distinct modulatory mechanism at these synapses, which does not require postsynaptic depolarization and acts via presynaptic AMPA receptors. We find that this mechanism operates mainly in the somatic vicinity of PCs in which large boutons of basket cell axons form synapses on the PC soma. We use fast confocal microscopy and detailed kinetic modeling to estimate that, in these boutons, an action potential opens 100-200 Ca2+ channels, eliciting a brief 3-5 microM transient, followed by a longer-term, 15-30 nM rise of free Ca2+ (above the resting level of approximately 100 nM). Brief activation of local AMPA receptors suppresses Ca2+ entry (probably by silencing 20-40 P/Q-type channels) in a subgroup of terminals that tend to show a higher dynamic range of Ca2+ signaling. The results provide the first quantitative description of presynaptic Ca2+ kinetics and its modulation by AMPA receptor activation (most likely via a glutamate spillover-mediated mechanism) at identified GABAergic synapses.
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- Dmitri A Rusakov
- Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences, and Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Tokyo 194-8511, Japan.
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Tu DC, Zhang D, Demas J, Slutsky EB, Provencio I, Holy TE, Van Gelder RN. Physiologic diversity and development of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells. Neuron 2006; 48:987-99. [PMID: 16364902 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2005.09.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 174] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2005] [Revised: 07/28/2005] [Accepted: 09/22/2005] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) mediate numerous nonvisual phenomena, including entrainment of the circadian clock to light-dark cycles, pupillary light responsiveness, and light-regulated hormone release. We have applied multielectrode array recording to characterize murine ipRGCs. We find that all ipRGC photosensitivity is melanopsin dependent. At least three populations of ipRGCs are present in the postnatal day 8 (P8) murine retina: slow onset, sensitive, fast off (type I); slow onset, insensitive, slow off (type II); and rapid onset, sensitive, very slow off (type III). Recordings from adult rd/rd retinas reveal cells comparable to postnatal types II and III. Recordings from early postnatal retinas demonstrate intrinsic light responses from P0. Early light responses are transient and insensitive but by P6 show increased photosensitivity and persistence. These results demonstrate that ipRGCs are the first light-sensitive cells in the retina and suggest previously unappreciated diversity in this cell population.
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- Daniel C Tu
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
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Wong KY, Dunn FA, Berson DM. Photoreceptor adaptation in intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells. Neuron 2006; 48:1001-10. [PMID: 16364903 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2005.11.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 143] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2005] [Revised: 10/13/2005] [Accepted: 11/08/2005] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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A rare type of mammalian retinal ganglion cell (RGC) expresses the photopigment melanopsin and is a photoreceptor. These intrinsically photosensitive RGCs (ipRGCs) drive circadian-clock resetting, pupillary constriction, and other non-image-forming photic responses. Both the light responses of ipRGCs and the behaviors they drive are remarkably sustained, raising the possibility that, unlike rods and cones, ipRGCs do not adjust their sensitivity according to lighting conditions ("adaptation"). We found, to the contrary, that ipRGC sensitivity is plastic, strongly influenced by lighting history. When exposed to a constant, bright background, the background-evoked response decayed, and responses to superimposed flashes grew in amplitude, indicating light adaptation. After extinction of a light-adapting background, sensitivity recovered progressively in darkness, indicating dark adaptation. Because these adjustments in sensitivity persisted when synapses were blocked, they constitute "photoreceptor adaptation" rather than "network adaptation." Implications for the mechanisms generating various non-image-forming visual responses are discussed.
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- Kwoon Y Wong
- Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA.
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Glykys J, Mody I. Hippocampal network hyperactivity after selective reduction of tonic inhibition in GABA A receptor alpha5 subunit-deficient mice. J Neurophysiol 2006; 95:2796-807. [PMID: 16452257 DOI: 10.1152/jn.01122.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Functionally, gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor (GABAR)-mediated inhibition can be classified as phasic (synaptic) and tonic (extrasynaptic). The GABARs underlying tonic inhibition assemble from subunits different from those responsible for phasic inhibition. We wanted to assess the excitability of hippocampal pyramidal cell (PC) networks following a selective impairment of tonic inhibition. This is difficult to accomplish by pharmacological means. Because the GABAR alpha5 subunits mostly mediate the tonic inhibition in CA1 and CA3 PCs, we quantified changes in tonic inhibition and examined network excitability in slices of adult gabra5-/- mice. In gabra5-/- CA1 and CA3 PCs tonic inhibitory currents were 60 and 53%, respectively, of those recorded in wild type (WT), with no alterations in phasic inhibition. The amount of tonic inhibition recorded in slices was significantly affected by the method of slice storage (interface or submerged chamber). Field recordings in gabra5-/- CA3 pyramidal layer showed an increased network excitability that was decreased by the GABAR agonist muscimol at a concentration that restored the tonic inhibition of gabra5-/- PCs to the WT level without altering phasic inhibition. Through a battery of pharmacological experiments, we have identified delta subunit-containing GABARs as the mediators of the residual tonic inhibition in gabra5-/- PCs. Our study is consistent with an important role of tonic inhibition in the control of hippocampal network excitability and highlights selective enhancers of tonic inhibition as promising therapeutic approaches for diseases involving network hyperexcitability.
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- Joseph Glykys
- Interdepartmental PhD Program for Neuroscience and Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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The discharge pattern of hippocampal pyramidal cells (PC) varies depending on the behaviour of the animal and on the accompanying network states. During theta activity, PCs fire asynchronously at low rates whereas during sharp waves PCs increase their firing frequency and many cells fire synchronously. In the present study, we addressed how the presynaptic activity of CA1 PCs influences the precise operation of their output synapses. Asynchronous presynaptic discharge was mimicked by activating only a single PC during paired recordings, whereas the highly synchronous presynaptic firing was emulated by extracellularly stimulating the axons of approximately 70 PCs in acute hippocampal slices. By using low- and high-affinity glutamate receptor competitive antagonists to monitor the synaptic glutamate concentration transient, we show that the synaptic transmitter concentration varies depending on the release probability (P(r)) when many fibres are synchronously activated. Our kinetic analysis revealed that an approximately 5-fold increase in P(r) from the beginning to the end of an action potential train resulted in a slowing down of the decay of evoked EPSCs, suggesting neurotransmitter spillover between neighbouring synapses. In agreement with this prediction, the slowing of the decay was reversed by the application of the low-affinity antagonist gamma-D-glutamyl-glycine. In contrast, altering P(r) had no effect on the kinetics of unitary EPSCs. Our data demonstrate that synapse independence breaks down during synchronous presynaptic activity, but the point-to-point communication is preserved when PCs fire asynchronously.
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- Agota A Biró
- Laboratory of Cellular Neurophysiology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szigony Street 43, 1083 Budapest, Hungary
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Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has provided remarkable benefits for people with a variety of neurologic conditions. Stimulation of the ventral intermediate nucleus of the thalamus can dramatically relieve tremor associated with essential tremor or Parkinson disease (PD). Similarly, stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus or the internal segment of the globus pallidus can substantially reduce bradykinesia, rigidity, tremor, and gait difficulties in people with PD. Multiple groups are attempting to extend this mode of treatment to other conditions. Yet, the precise mechanism of action of DBS remains uncertain. Such studies have importance that extends beyond clinical therapeutics. Investigations of the mechanisms of action of DBS have the potential to clarify fundamental issues such as the functional anatomy of selected brain circuits and the relationship between activity in those circuits and behavior. Although we review relevant clinical issues, we emphasize the importance of current and future investigations on these topics.
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- Joel S. Perlmutter
- Departments of Neurology, Radiology, Physical Therapy and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
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- Departments of Neurology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, and Pediatrics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14642
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Leung LS, Wu K. Epilepsy-based changes in hippocampal excitability: causes and effects. Adv Neurol 2006; 97:63-8. [PMID: 16383115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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- L Stan Leung
- Physiology and Pharmacology and Clinical Neurological Sciences and Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Raisinghani M, Faingold CL. Evidence for the perirhinal cortex as a requisite component in the seizure network following seizure repetition in an inherited form of generalized clonic seizures. Brain Res 2005; 1048:193-201. [PMID: 15919063 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.04.070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2004] [Revised: 04/22/2005] [Accepted: 04/25/2005] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Perirhinal cortex (PRh) is strongly implicated in neuronal networks subserving forebrain-driven partial onset seizures, but whether PRh plays a role in generalized onset seizures is unclear. The moderate seizure severity substrain of genetically epilepsy-prone rats (GEPR-3s) exhibits generalized onset clonic audiogenic seizures (AGS), but following repetitive AGS (AGS kindling), an additional behavior, facial and forelimb (F&F) clonus emerges immediately following generalized clonus. F&F clonus is thought to be driven from forebrain structures. The present in vivo study used PRh focal blockade or extracellular PRh neuronal recording with simultaneous behavioral observations to examine the role played by PRh in AGS neuronal networks before and after AGS kindling in GEPR-3s. Bilateral microinjection of an NMDA receptor antagonist [2-amino-7-phosphonoheptanoic acid, AP7 (0.2-7.5 nmol/side)] into PRh did not affect generalized clonus before or after AGS kindling. However, complete and reversible blockade of only the F&F clonic seizure behavior was induced by AP7 (1 and 7.5 nmol) in AGS-kindled GEPR-3s. Significant increases in PRh neuronal responses to acoustic stimuli occurred after AGS kindling. Tonic PRh neuronal firing patterns appeared during generalized clonus before and after AGS kindling. During F&F clonus, burst firing, an indicator of increased excitability, appeared in PRh neurons. These neurophysiological and microinjection findings support a critical role of PRh in generation of this AGS kindling-induced convulsive behavior. These data are the first indication that PRh participates importantly in the neuronal network for AGS as a result of AGS kindling and demonstrate a previously unknown involvement of PRh in generalized onset seizures.
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- Manish Raisinghani
- Department of Pharmacology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, PO Box 19629, Springfield, IL 62794-9629, USA
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Denslow S, Lomarev M, George MS, Bohning DE. Cortical and subcortical brain effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)-induced movement: an interleaved TMS/functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Biol Psychiatry 2005; 57:752-60. [PMID: 15820232 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2004.12.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2004] [Revised: 12/06/2004] [Accepted: 12/09/2004] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND To date, interleaved transcranial magnetic stimulation and functional magnetic resonance imaging (TMS/fMRI) studies of motor activation have not recorded whole brain patterns. We hypothesized that TMS would activate known motor circuitry with some additional regions plus some areas dropping out. METHODS We used interleaved TMS/fMRI (11 subjects, three scans each) to elucidate whole brain activation patterns from 1-Hz TMS over left primary motor cortex. RESULTS Both TMS (110% motor threshold) and volitional movement of the same muscles excited by TMS caused blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) patterns encompassing known motor circuitry. Additional activation was observed bilaterally in superior temporal auditory areas. Decreases in BOLD signal with unexpected post-task "rebounds" were observed for both tasks in the right motor area, right superior parietal lobe, and in occipital regions. Paired t test of parametric contrast maps failed to detect significant differences between TMS- and volition-induced effects. Differences were detectable, however, in primary data time-intensity profiles. CONCLUSIONS Using this interleaved TMS/fMRI technique, TMS over primary motor cortex produces a whole brain pattern of BOLD activation similar to known motor circuitry, without detectable differences from mimicked volitional movement. Some differences may exist between time courses of BOLD intensity during TMS circuit activation and volitional circuit activation.
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- Stewart Denslow
- Department of Radiology, Center for Advanced Imaging Research and Brain Stimulation Laboratories, Medical University of South Carolina, Charlestown, SC 29425, USA.
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Neocortical neurons integrate inputs from thousands of presynaptic neurons that fire in vivo with frequencies that can reach 20 Hz. An important issue in understanding cortical integration is to determine the actual impact of presynaptic firing on postsynaptic neuron in the context of an active network. We used dual intracellular recordings from synaptically connected neurons or microstimulation to study the properties of spontaneous and evoked single-axon excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) in vivo, in barbiturate or ketamine-xylazine anaesthetized cats. We found that active states of the cortical network were associated with higher variability and decrease in amplitude and duration of the EPSPs owing to a shunting effect. Moreover, the number of apparent failures markedly increased during active states as compared with silent states. Single-axon EPSPs in vivo showed mainly paired-pulse facilitation, and the paired-pulse ratio increased during active states as compare to silent states, suggesting a decrease in release probability during active states. Raising extracellular Ca(2+) concentration to 2.5-3.0 mm by reverse microdialysis reduced the number of apparent failures and significantly increased the mean amplitude of individual synaptic potentials. Quantitative analysis of spontaneous synaptic activity suggested that the proportion of presynaptic activity that impact at the soma of a cortical neuron in vivo was low because of a high failure rate, a shunting effect and probably dendritic filtering. We conclude that during active states of cortical network, the efficacy of synaptic transmission in individual synapses is low, thus safe transmission of information requires synchronized activity of a large population of presynaptic neurons.
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- Sylvain Crochet
- Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Laval University, Québec, G1K 7P4, Canada
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Fujita K, Kashimori Y, Zheng M, Kambara T. A role of burst firings in encoding of spatiotemporally-varying stimulus. Biosystems 2004; 76:21-31. [PMID: 15351127 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2004.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2003] [Revised: 07/11/2003] [Accepted: 08/01/2003] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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To investigate a role of burst firings of neurons in encoding of spatiotemporally-varying stimulus, we focus on electrosensory system of a weakly electric fish. Weakly electric fish generates electric field around its body using electric organ discharge and can accurately detect the location of an object using the modulation of electric field induced by the object. We developed a model of fish body by which we numerically describe the spatiotemporal patterns of electric field around the fish body. We also made neural models of electroreceptor distributed on the fish body and of electrosensory lateral-line lobe (ELL) to investigate what kinds of information of electric field distorted by an object they detect. Here we show that the spatiotemporal features of electric field around the fish body are encoded by the timing of burst firings of ELL neurons. The information of object distance is extracted by the area of synchronous firings of neurons in a higher nucleus, torus semicircularis.
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- Kazuhisa Fujita
- Department of Information Network Science, Graduate School of Information Systems, University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan.
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Chizhenkova RA. Pulse activity of populations of cortical neurons under microwave exposures of different intensity. Bioelectrochemistry 2004; 63:343-6. [PMID: 15110300 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2003.10.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2003] [Revised: 10/13/2003] [Accepted: 10/16/2003] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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In rabbit pulse flows of populations of cortical neurons were investigated prior to, during, and after 1-min microwave irradiation (wavelength 37.5 cm, power density 0.2-40 mW/cm2). It was found that the microwave irradiation produced shifts in mean values of interspike intervals and in the number of spike bursts. Peculiarities of rearrangements of pulse flows of cortical neurons were conditioned by an intensity of exposures.
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- R A Chizhenkova
- Institute of Cell Biophysics, Russian Academy of Science, Pushchino, Moscow region 142290, Russia.
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Görtz P, Hoinkes A, Fleischer W, Otto F, Schwahn B, Wendel U, Siebler M. Implications for hyperhomocysteinemia: not homocysteine but its oxidized forms strongly inhibit neuronal network activity. J Neurol Sci 2004; 218:109-14. [PMID: 14759642 DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2003.11.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2003] [Revised: 10/28/2003] [Accepted: 11/16/2003] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Severe hyperhomocysteinemia (50-200 microM) often presents itself with acute neuronal dysfunction including seizures and psychosis. Its moderate form (15-50 microM) is associated with cognitive impairment and dementia. We investigated the neuropharmacological effects of homocysteine and its oxidized forms, homocysteinesulfinic acid (HCSA) and homocysteic acid (HCA), on neuronal network function utilizing dissociated cortical neurons from embryonic Wistar rats on microelectrode arrays. All substances inhibited dose-dependently and reversibly spontaneous neuronal network activity within seconds: L-HCSA and L-HCA blocked spontaneous spike rate (SSR) significantly at very low concentrations, with an IC50 of 1.9 and 1.3 microM, respectively; whereas the dose-response curve of D,L-homocysteine revealed an IC50 of 401 microM. These effects were antagonized by 2-amino-5-phosphonovaleric acid (APV) pointing to the NMDA receptor as mediator of this fast and reversible inhibition of network activity. We conclude that a neuronal dysfunction observed in hyperhomocysteinemia is likely due to HCSA and HCA since effective concentrations of homocysteine are not reached in patients.
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- Philipp Görtz
- Department of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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We modeled the inhibitory effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) on a neural population. TMS is a noninvasive technique, with high temporal resolution, that can stimulate the brain via a brief magnetic pulse from a coil placed on the scalp. Because of these advantages, TMS is extensively used as a powerful tool in experimental studies of motor, perception, and other functions in humans. However, the mechanisms by which TMS interferes with neural activities, especially in terms of theoretical aspects, are totally unknown. In this study, we focused on the temporal properties of TMS-induced perceptual suppression, and we computationally analyzed the response of a simple network model of a sensory feature detector system to a TMS-like perturbation. The perturbation caused the mean activity to transiently increase and then decrease for a long period, accompanied by a loss in the degree of activity localization. When the afferent input consisted of a dual phase, with a strong transient component and a weak sustained component, there was a critical latency period of the perturbation during which the network activity was completely suppressed and converged to the resting state. The range of the suppressive period increased with decreasing afferent input intensity and reached more than 10 times the time constant of the neuron. These results agree well with typical experimental data for occipital TMS and support the conclusion that dynamical interaction in a neural population plays an important role in TMS-induced perceptual suppression.
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Wirth C, Lüscher HR. Spatiotemporal evolution of excitation and inhibition in the rat barrel cortex investigated with multielectrode arrays. J Neurophysiol 2003; 91:1635-47. [PMID: 14627664 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00950.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We investigated the spatiotemporal evolution of activity in the rat barrel cortex using multielectrode arrays (MEAs). In acute brain slices, field potentials were recorded simultaneously from 60 electrodes with high spatial and temporal resolution. This new technique allowed us to map functionally discrete barrels and to observe the interplay between the excitatory and inhibitory network. The local field potentials (LFPs) were elicited by focal electrical stimulation in layer 4 (L4). Excitation recorded in a single barrel was first confined to the stimulated barrel and subsequently spread in a columnar manner to layer 2/3 (L2/3). This excitation in L4 and lower L2/3 was followed by inhibition curtailing excitation to a short period lasting only approximately 2 ms. In the uppermost layer, a long-lasting (approximately 10 ms), laterally spreading band of excitation remained active. Blockade of GABAA-receptors resulted in a long-lasting and diffuse activation of L4 and lower L2/3 and abolition of activation of the upper L2/3. Thus inhibition not only shaped the spatial-temporal map of excitation in L4 and lower L2/3 but also resulted indirectly in an excitatory action in the superficial layers. Stimulation in L6 revealed a feedforward inhibition to L4 and subsequently an excitatory L6-L4-L6 loop. The complex interplay between excitation and inhibition opens two spatial windows of excitation in the infra- and supragranular layers. They may prepare the L5 pyramidal neuron for associating top-down input from other cortical regions with bottom-up input from the whisker pad to generate behaviorally relevant output.
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- Corina Wirth
- Institute of Physiology, University of Bern, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
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It now appears feasible to be able to subject to experimental test Ghirardi's proposal concerning utilizing superposed photon states to check reduction mechanisms in perceptual processes which may be governed by nonlinear evolution laws. This can be accomplished with existing techniques involving superposed single photon states and living retinal tissue mounted on microelectrode arrays.
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The human brain is a biological organ. On one hand it is soft, flexible and adaptive, but on the other hand is relatively stable and coherent with well developed intelligence. In order to retain intelligent thinking in a soft and adaptive organ there needs to be a constant, globally available, synchronization system that continuously stabilizes the brain. Rapid intelligence and reactions requires and electromagnetic signalling system, supported by a biochemical system. The Schumann Resonance signal provides a brain frequency range matching electromagnetic signal, providing the synchronization needed for intelligence.
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- N J Cherry
- Human Sciences Department, Lincoln University, New Zealand.
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Pavlovian conditioning in Hermissenda consists of pairing light, the conditioned stimulus (CS) with activation of statocyst hair cells, the unconditioned stimulus (US). Conditioning produces CS-elicited foot shortening and inhibition of light-elicited locomotion, the two conditioned responses (CRs). Conditioning correlates have been identified in the primary sensory neurons (photoreceptors) of the CS pathway, interneurons that receive monosynaptic input from identified photoreceptors, and putative pedal motor neurons. While cellular mechanisms of acquisition produced by the synaptic interaction between the CS and US pathways are well-documented, little is known about the mechanisms responsible for the generation or expression of the CR. Here we show that in conditioned animals light reduced tonic firing of ciliary activating pedal neurons (VP1) below their pre-CS baseline levels. In contrast, pseudorandom controls expressed a significant increase in CS-elicited tonic firing of VP1 as compared to pre-CS baseline activity. Identified interneurons in the visual pathway that have established polysynaptic connections with VP1 were examined in conditioned animals and pseudorandom controls. Depolarization of identified type Ie interneurons with extrinsic current elicited a significant increase in IPSPs recorded in VP1 pedal neurons of conditioned animals as compared with pseudorandom controls. Conditioning also enhanced intrinsic excitability of type Ie interneurons of conditioned animals as compared to pseudorandom controls. Light evoked a modest increase in IPSP frequency in VP1 of conditioned preparations and a significant decrease in IPSP frequency in VP1 of pseudorandom controls. Our results show that a combination of synaptic facilitation and intrinsic enhanced excitability in identified components of the CS pathway may explain light-elicited inhibition of locomotion in conditioned animals.
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- Terry Crow
- Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
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Pakhomov AG, Doyle J, Stuck BE, Murphy MR. Effects of high power microwave pulses on synaptic transmission and long term potentiation in hippocampus. Bioelectromagnetics 2003; 24:174-81. [PMID: 12669300 DOI: 10.1002/bem.10079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Effects of short, extremely high power microwave pulses (EHPP) on neuronal network function were explored by electrophysiological techniques in the isolated rat hippocampal slice model. Population spikes (PS) in the CA1 area were evoked by repeated stimulation (1 per 30 s) of the Schaffer collateral pathway. A brief tetanus (2 s at 50 Hz) was used to induce long term potentiation (LTP) of synaptic transmission. In three different series of experiments with a total of 160 brain slices, the EHPP irradiation was performed before, during, or after the tetanus. The EHPP carrier frequency was 9.3 GHz, the pulse width and repetition rate were from 0.5 to 2 micros and from 0.5 to 10 Hz, respectively, and the peak specific absorption rate (SAR) in brain slices reached up to 500 MW/kg. Microwave heating of the preparation ranged from 0.5 degrees C (at 0.3 kW/kg time average SAR) to 6 degrees C (at 3.6 kW/kg). The experiments established that the only effect caused by EHPP exposure within the studied range of parameters was a transient and fully reversible decrease in the PS amplitude. Recovery took no more than a few minutes after the cessation of exposure and return to the initial temperature. This effect's features were characteristic of an ordinary thermal response: it was proportional to the temperature rise but not to any specific parameter of EHPP, and it could also be induced by a continuous wave (CW) irradiation or conventional heating. Irradiation did not affect the ability of neurons to develop LTP in response to tetanus or to retain the potentiated state that was induced before irradiation. No lasting or delayed effects of EHPP were observed. The results are consistent with the thermal mechanism of EHPP action and thus far provided no indication of EHPP-specific effects on neuronal function.
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- Andrei G Pakhomov
- McKesson BioServices Corporation, Brooks Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas 78235-5324, USA.
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