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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

Label-Free Long-Term Methods for Live Cell Imaging of Neurons: New Opportunities

Georg Fantner, Zahra Ayar Dulabi, Samuel Mendes Leitão

Time-lapse light microscopy combined with in vitro neuronal cultures has provided a significant contribution to the field of Developmental Neuroscience. The establishment of the neuronal polarity, i.e., formation of axons and dendrites, key structures resp ...

MDPI2023

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

Epigenetic plasticity as a signature for memory allocation

Giulia Santoni

Long-lasting memories are stored in a small set of neurons scattered throughout the brain, so-called engram cells. To define a stable engram each region of the brain involved in memory storage recruits between 5 and 20 percent of excitatory neurons. In par ...

EPFL2022

A computational biophysical model of thalamic and reticular nucleus microcircuitry: from neurons to emergent network dynamics

Elisabetta Iavarone

The thalamus, once believed to be a simple relay station between the body periphery and the neocortex, has started to be recognized as a key player in higher-order functions, such as attention. It participates in the transition between brain states, such a ...

EPFL2020

Endogenous SHG and 2PEF coherence imaging of substructures in neurons in 3D

Sylvie Roke, Carlos Alberto Macias Romero, Marie Eve Pascale Didier, Claire Jacqueline Léa Teulon

Neuronal morphology, long-distance transport and signalling critically depend on the organization of microtubules in the cytoskeleton. Second harmonic generation (SHG) imaging has been recognized as a potentially powerful tool for in situ label-free neuroi ...

2019

A null model of the mouse whole-neocortex micro-connectome

Henry Markram, Eilif Benjamin Muller, Michael Reimann, Ying Shi, Huanxiang Lu

In connectomics, the study of the network structure of connected neurons, great advances are being made on two different scales: that of macro- and meso-scale connectomics, studying the connectivity between populations of neurons, and that of micro-scale c ...

Nature Research2019

A cell fitness selection model for neuronal survival during development

Gioele La Manno

Developmental cell death plays an important role in the construction of functional neural circuits. In vertebrates, the canonical view proposes a selection of the surviving neurons through stochastic competition for target-derived neurotrophic signals, imp ...

Nature Research2019

Data-driven reconstruction of a point neuron mouse brain

Csaba Erö

In this work, we present a semi-automatic method to reconstruct a mouse whole-brain model at the point-neuron level by integrating a wide array of biological data. Our process has three parts: cell position and type assignment, connectivity mapping, and si ...

EPFL2018

Ultrastructural basis of strong unitary inhibition in a binaural neuron

Graham Knott, Ralf Schneggenburger, Enida Gjoni, Clémentine Léa Aguet

Binaural neurons in the lateral superior olive (LSO) integrate sound information arriving from each ear, and powerful glycinergic inhibition of these neurons plays an important role in this process. In the present study, we investigated the ultrastructural ...

WILEY2018

The physiological variability of channel density in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells and interneurons explored using a unified data-driven modeling workflow

Henry Markram, Eilif Benjamin Muller, Ying Shi, Armando Romani, Felix Schürmann, Jean-Denis Georges Emile Courcol, Werner Alfons Hilda Van Geit, Christian Andreas Rössert, Maurizio Ferdinando Pezzoli, Michele Migliore, Olivier Richard Hagens, Stefano Maximiliano Antonel, Szabolcs Kali, Carmen Alina Lupascu, Rosanna Migliore, Luca Leonardo Bologna, Audrey Mercer

Every neuron is part of a network, exerting its function by transforming multiple spatiotemporal synaptic input patterns into a single spiking output. This function is specified by the particular shape and passive electrical properties of the neuronal memb ...

2018

Neural assemblies as core elements for modeling neural networks in the brain

Hesam Setareh

How does the brain process and memorize information? We all know that the neuron (also known as nerve cell) is the processing unit in the brain. But how do neurons work together in networks? The connectivity structure of neural networks plays an important ...

EPFL2017

Artificial spatiotemporal touch inputs reveal complementary decoding in neocortical neurons

Silvestro Micera

Investigations of the mechanisms of touch perception and decoding has been hampered by difficulties in achieving invariant patterns of skin sensor activation. To obtain reproducible spatiotemporal patterns of activation of sensory afferents, we used an art ...

Nature Research2017

All-memristive neuromorphic computing with level-tuned neurons

Stanislaw Andrzej Wozniak, Evangelos Eleftheriou, Angeliki Pantazi

In the new era of cognitive computing, systems will be able to learn and interact with the environment in ways that will drastically enhance the capabilities of current processors, especially in extracting knowledge from vast amount of data obtained from m ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Lactate release from astrocytes to neurons contributes to cocaine memory formation

Pierre Magistretti, Benjamin Boutrel, Benjamin Boury-Jamot

The identification of neural substrates underlying the long lasting debilitating impact of drug cues is critical for developing novel therapeutic tools. Metabolic coupling has long been considered a key mechanism through which astrocytes and neurons active ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Towards brain-on-a-chip : microfluidic and microelectrode array platforms for morphological and electrophysiological observations on the propagation of Alzheimer's disease

Yufei Ren

Since the first compartmentalized neuronal culture described by Robert B. Campenot in 1977, compartmentalized microfluidic devices have been widely used to engineer the cellular environment for cell culture. In previous research by Dr. Anja Kunze, a microf ...

EPFL2016

Modeling Brain Circuitry over a Wide Range of Scales

Pascal Fua, Graham Knott

If we are ever to unravel the mysteries of brain function at its most fundamental level, we will need a precise understanding of how its component neurons connect to each other. Electron Microscopes (EM) can now provide the nanometer resolution that is nee ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2015

Recapitulating De Novo Alpha-Synuclein Fibrillization in a Novel Neuronal Model of Parkinson's Disease

Mohamed Bilal Fares

Athough it has been established for over 100 years that Lewy bodies (LBs) represent the major pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD), we still do not know why these fibrillar intra-neuronal inclusions of the α-Synuclein (α-Syn) protein form, and ...

EPFL2015

In Vivo Measurement of Cell-Type-Specific Synaptic Connectivity and Synaptic Transmission in Layer 2/3 Mouse Barrel Cortex

Carl Petersen, Aurélie Pala

Intracellular recordings of membrane potential in vitro have defined fundamental properties of synaptic communication. Much less is known about the properties of synaptic connectivity and synaptic transmission in vivo. Here, we combined single-cell opto-ge ...

Cell Press2015

Cell-type- and activity-dependent extracellular correlates of intracellular spiking

Henry Markram, Rodrigo de Campos Perin, Constantinos Anastassiou

Despite decades of extracellular action potential (EAP) recordings monitoring brain activity, the biophysical origin and inherent variability of these signals remains enigmatic. We performed whole-cell patch recordings of excitatory and inhibitory neurons ...

2015