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Regulation of melanin-based pigmentation is complex, involving multiple genes. Because different genes can contribute to the same pigmentation phenotype, the genes identified in model organisms may not necessarily apply to wild species. In the barn owl (Ty ...

WILEY2025

A bistable inhibitory optoGPCR for multiplexed optogenetic control of neural circuits

Mauro Pulin

Information is transmitted between brain regions through the release of neurotransmitters from long-range projecting axons. Understanding how the activity of such long-range connections contributes to behavior requires efficient methods for reversibly mani ...

Nature Publishing Group2024

Modeling and Simulation of Neocortical Micro- and Mesocircuitry. Part I: Anatomy

Henry Markram, Kathryn Hess Bellwald, Felix Schürmann, Daniel Keller, Eilif Benjamin Muller, Michael Reimann, Werner Alfons Hilda Van Geit, Lida Kanari, Srikanth Ramaswamy, Matthias Wolf, James Gonzalo King, Alexis Arnaudon, Ying Shi, András Ecker, Jean-Denis Georges Emile Courcol, Armando Romani, Pramod Shivaji Kumbhar, Judit Planas Carbonell, Michael Emiel Gevaert, Fernando Joaquim Leite Pereira, Liesbeth Maria L Vanherpe, Huanxiang Lu, Daniela Egas Santander, James Bryden Isbister, Ran Levi, Benoît Jean-Albert Coste, Samuel Lieven D. Lapere, Sirio Bolaños Puchet, Juan Bautista Hernando Vieites, Cyrille Pierre Henri Favreau, Joni Henrikki Herttuainen, Christoph Pokorny, Vishal Sood, Thomas Brice Delemontex, Adrien Michel Achille Devresse, Nicolas René Jean Ninin, Alexander Dietz, Hugo Thabo Dictus, Gianluca Ficarelli

The function of the neocortex is fundamentally determined by its repeating microcircuit motif, but also by its rich, hierarchical, interregional structure with a highly specific laminar architecture. The last decade has seen the emergence of extensive new ...

2024

A multi-modal fitting approach to construct single-neuron models with patch clamp and high-density microelectrode arrays

Henry Markram, Werner Alfons Hilda Van Geit, Tanguy Pierre Louis Damart, Darshan Mandge, Aurélien Tristan Jaquier, Mickael Maurice Zbili

In computational neuroscience, multicompartment models are among the most biophysically realistic representations of single neurons. Constructing such models usually involves the use of the patch-clamp technique to record somatic voltage signals under diff ...

2024

Fear learning induces synaptic potentiation between engram neurons in the rat lateral amygdala

Henry Markram, Rodrigo de Campos Perin

The lateral amygdala (LA) encodes fear memories by potentiating sensory inputs associated with threats and, in the process, recruits 10-30% of its neurons per fear memory engram. However, how the local network within the LA processes this information and w ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Subcortical correlates of consciousness with human single neuron recordings

Olaf Blanke, Fosco Bernasconi, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Michael Eric Anthony Pereira

Subcortical brain structures such as the basal ganglia or the thalamus are involved in regulating motor and cognitive behavior. However, their contribution to perceptual consciousness is still unclear, due to the inherent difficulties of recording subcorti ...

2024

Uncovering interactions between Descending Neurons as a functional principle of behavioural control

Jonas Friedrich Braun

Animals, including humans, exhibit a remarkable variety of complex behaviours. How the nervous system controls all these behaviours ranging from simple, stereotyped movements to flexible, adaptive actions is a central questions of neuroscience. One of the ...

EPFL2024

Enhancement of brain atlases with region-specific coordinate systems: flatmaps and barrel column annotations

Felix Schürmann, Michael Reimann, Armando Romani, Huanxiang Lu, Sirio Bolaños Puchet, Juan Bautista Hernando Vieites, Aleksandra Zuzanna Teska

Digital brain atlases define a hierarchy of brain regions and their locations in three-dimensional space. They provide a standard coordinate system in which diverse datasets can be integrated for visualization and analysis. They also enable building of dat ...

2024

Trio preserves motor synapses and prolongs motor ability during aging

Evelyne Ruchti, Brian Donal McCabe, Wei Jiao, Soumya Banerjee, Greta Limoni, Samuel William Vernon, Marine Van Campenhoudt

The decline of motor ability is a hallmark feature of aging and is accompanied by degeneration of motor synaptic terminals. Consistent with this, Drosophila motor synapses undergo characteristic age -dependent structural fragmentation co -incident with dim ...

Cell Press2024

Task-driven neural network models predict neural dynamics of proprioception: Neural network model weights

Alexander Mathis, Alberto Silvio Chiappa, Alessandro Marin Vargas, Axel Bisi

Proprioception tells the brain the state of the body based on distributed sensors in the body. However, the principles that govern proprioceptive processing from those distributed sensors are poorly understood. Here, we employ a task-driven neural network ...

Zenodo2024

Principles of Network Plasticity in Neocortical Microcircuits

András Ecker

Synaptic plasticity underlies our ability to learn and adapt to the constantly changing environment. The phenomenon of synapses changing their efficacy in an activity-dependent manner is often studied in small groups of neurons in vitro or indirectly throu ...

EPFL2023

Assemblies, synapse clustering and network topology interact with plasticity to explain structure-function relationships of the cortical connectome

Eilif Benjamin Muller, Michael Reimann, Marwan Muhammad Ahmed Abdellah, James Gonzalo King, András Ecker, Pramod Shivaji Kumbhar, Giuseppe Chindemi, Daniela Egas Santander, James Bryden Isbister, Ioannis Magkanaris, Sirio Bolaños Puchet, Jorge Blanco Alonso

Synaptic plasticity underlies the brain’s ability to learn and adapt. While experiments in brain slices have revealed mechanisms and protocols for the induction of plasticity between pairs of neurons, how these synaptic changes are coordinated in biologica ...

2024

Different responses of mice and rats hippocampus CA1 pyramidal neurons to in vitro and in vivo-like inputs

Ying Shi, Armando Romani, Maurizio Ferdinando Pezzoli

The fundamental role of any neuron within a network is to transform complex spatiotemporal synaptic input patterns into individual output spikes. These spikes, in turn, act as inputs for other neurons in the network. Neurons must execute this function acro ...

2023

Modeling and simulation of neocortical micro- and mesocircuitry. Part II: Physiology and experimentation

Weina Ji, Henry Markram, Felix Schürmann, Daniel Keller, Eilif Benjamin Muller, Michael Reimann, Werner Alfons Hilda Van Geit, Srikanth Ramaswamy, Matthias Wolf, James Gonzalo King, Alexis Arnaudon, András Ecker, Rajnish Ranjan, Jean-Denis Georges Emile Courcol, Armando Romani, Pramod Shivaji Kumbhar, Judit Planas Carbonell, Giuseppe Chindemi, Michael Emiel Gevaert, Christian Andreas Rössert, Fernando Joaquim Leite Pereira, Omar Awile, Mustafa Anil Tuncel, Daniela Egas Santander, James Bryden Isbister, Natali Barros Zulaica, Samuel Lieven D. Lapere, Sirio Bolaños Puchet, Maria Reva, Genrich Ivaska, Tanguy Pierre Louis Damart, Darshan Mandge, Joni Henrikki Herttuainen, Christoph Pokorny, Elvis Boci, Vishal Sood, Thomas Brice Delemontex, Aleksandra Zuzanna Teska, Polina Litvak, Alexander Dietz, Jorge Blanco Alonso, Gianluca Ficarelli

Cortical dynamics underlie many cognitive processes and emerge from complex multi-scale interactions, which are challenging to study in vivo. Large-scale, biophysically detailed models offer a tool which can complement laboratory approaches. We present a m ...

2024

Plasticity of sensory representations in the posterior insular cortex during fear learning

Denys Osypenko

Aversively-motivated associative learning allows animals to avoid harm and thus ensures survival. Aversive learning can be studied by the fear learning paradigm, in which an innocuous sensory stimulus like a tone (conditioned stimulus, CS), acquires a nega ...

EPFL2023

Fast-Spiking Interneurons of the Premotor Cortex Contribute to Initiation and Execution of Spontaneous Actions

Silvestro Micera

Planning and execution of voluntary movement depend on the contribution of distinct classes of neurons in primary motor and premotor areas. However, timing and pattern of activation of GABAergic cells during specific motor behaviors remain only partly unde ...

SOC NEUROSCIENCE2023

Axonal projections from mouse whisker-related sensory cortex

Yanqi Liu

Neurons primarily communicate through release of neurotransmitter from presynaptic specialisations along their axonal arborisations. In order to understand the functional role of a specific neuron, it is therefore of great interest to know the structure of ...

EPFL2023

Loss of Motor Cortical Inputs to the Red Nucleus after CNS Disorders in Nonhuman Primates

Simon Borgognon

The premotor (PM) and primary motor (M1) cortical areas broadcast voluntary motor commands through multiple neuronal pathways, including the corticorubral projection that reaches the red nucleus (RN). However, the respective contribution of M1 and PM to co ...

SOC NEUROSCIENCE2023

Neuronal correlates of goal-directed sensorimotor transformation in sensory, motor and higher-order cortical areas

Anastasiia Oryshchuk

An important function of the brain is to interpret incoming sensory information from the outside world to guide adaptive behavior. Understanding how and where sensory information is transformed into motor commands in a context- and learning-dependent manne ...

EPFL2023

GABAergic-like dopamine synapses in the brain

Maria Reva

Dopamine synapses play a crucial role in volitional movement and reward-related behaviors, while dysfunction of dopamine synapses causes various psychiatric and neurological disorders. Despite this significance, the true biological nature of dopamine synap ...

2023