NeuronPub Date : 2024-12-18DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2024.11.013
Karen S Rommelfanger, Darrell Porcello, Arleen Salles, Lucille Nalbach Tournas
{"title":"Neuroethics hackathons bridge theory to practice.","authors":"Karen S Rommelfanger, Darrell Porcello, Arleen Salles, Lucille Nalbach Tournas","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2024.11.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2024.11.013","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ethical practice is a vital component in neuroscience innovation, and that practice must reflect the interests of society. However, truly ethical and responsible innovation may require moving beyond current theory toward more creative and imaginative approaches. Here, we present neuroethics hackathons as a case study in bridging theory to practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":"112 24","pages":"3994-3998"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142865020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NeuronPub Date : 2024-12-18Epub Date: 2024-11-06DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2024.10.005
Reza Rajimehr, Haoran Xu, Asa Farahani, Simon Kornblith, John Duncan, Robert Desimone
{"title":"Functional architecture of cerebral cortex during naturalistic movie watching.","authors":"Reza Rajimehr, Haoran Xu, Asa Farahani, Simon Kornblith, John Duncan, Robert Desimone","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2024.10.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuron.2024.10.005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Characterizing the functional organization of cerebral cortex is a fundamental step in understanding how different kinds of information are processed in the brain. However, it is still unclear how these areas are organized during naturalistic visual and auditory stimulation. Here, we used high-resolution functional MRI data from 176 human subjects to map the macro-architecture of the entire cerebral cortex based on responses to a 60-min audiovisual movie stimulus. A data-driven clustering approach revealed a map of 24 functional areas/networks, each explicitly linked to a specific aspect of sensory or cognitive processing. Novel features of this map included an extended scene-selective network in the lateral prefrontal cortex, separate clusters responsive to human-object and human-human interaction, and a push-pull interaction between three executive control (domain-general) networks and domain-specific regions of the visual, auditory, and language cortex. Our cortical parcellation provides a comprehensive and unified map of functionally defined areas in the human cerebral cortex.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":"4130-4146.e3"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142604305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NeuronPub Date : 2024-12-18Epub Date: 2024-11-05DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2024.10.010
Guillermo Aquino-Miranda, Dounya Jalloul, Xu O Zhang, Sa Li, Gilbert J Kirouac, Michael Beierlein, Fabricio H Do Monte
{"title":"Functional properties of corticothalamic circuits targeting paraventricular thalamic neurons.","authors":"Guillermo Aquino-Miranda, Dounya Jalloul, Xu O Zhang, Sa Li, Gilbert J Kirouac, Michael Beierlein, Fabricio H Do Monte","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2024.10.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuron.2024.10.010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Corticothalamic projections to sensorimotor thalamic nuclei show modest firing rates and serve to modulate the activity of thalamic relay neurons. By contrast, here we find that high-order corticothalamic projections from the prelimbic (PL) cortex to the anterior paraventricular thalamic nucleus (aPVT) maintain high-frequency activity and evoke strong synaptic excitation of aPVT neurons in rats. In a significant fraction of aPVT cells, such high-frequency excitation of PL-aPVT projections leads to a rapid decay of action potential amplitudes, followed by a depolarization block (DB) that strongly limits aPVT maximum firing rates, thereby regulating both defensive and appetitive behaviors in a frequency-dependent manner. Strong inhibitory inputs from the anteroventral portion of the thalamic reticular nucleus (avTRN) inhibit the firing rate of aPVT neurons during periods of high-spike fidelity but restore it during prominent DB, suggesting that avTRN activity can modulate the effects of PL inputs on aPVT firing rates to ultimately control motivated behaviors.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":"4060-4080.e7"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142591265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NeuronPub Date : 2024-12-18DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2024.11.017
Talha Soluoku, James M Hyman
{"title":"Complexity demands more flexibility and the prefrontal cortex has an answer.","authors":"Talha Soluoku, James M Hyman","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2024.11.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2024.11.017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cognitive flexibility allows us to adapt our behavior to keep up with a changing environment. In this issue of Neuron, Mugan and colleagues<sup>1</sup> manipulate the complexity of an environment to demonstrate how the medial prefrontal cortex controls a cognitive flexibility circuit featuring the dorsolateral striatum and hippocampus.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":"112 24","pages":"3989-3991"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142865018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NeuronPub Date : 2024-12-18DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2024.11.014
Se-Bum Paik
{"title":"Split-second insights from the brain's dual-stream visual system.","authors":"Se-Bum Paik","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2024.11.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2024.11.014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this issue of Neuron, Thompson et al.<sup>1</sup> demonstrate that the brain's dual-stream architecture enables zero-shot recognition of novel objects and scenes, highlighting the role of motor signals from eye movements as both inputs to and outputs from cognitive computation.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":"112 24","pages":"3991-3993"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142865021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NeuronPub Date : 2024-12-18Epub Date: 2024-10-16DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2024.09.020
Ji-Il Kim, Yuki Miura, Min-Yin Li, Omer Revah, Sridhar Selvaraj, Fikri Birey, Xiangling Meng, Mayuri Vijay Thete, Sergey D Pavlov, Jimena Andersen, Anca M Pașca, Matthew H Porteus, John R Huguenard, Sergiu P Pașca
{"title":"Human assembloids reveal the consequences of CACNA1G gene variants in the thalamocortical pathway.","authors":"Ji-Il Kim, Yuki Miura, Min-Yin Li, Omer Revah, Sridhar Selvaraj, Fikri Birey, Xiangling Meng, Mayuri Vijay Thete, Sergey D Pavlov, Jimena Andersen, Anca M Pașca, Matthew H Porteus, John R Huguenard, Sergiu P Pașca","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2024.09.020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuron.2024.09.020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abnormalities in thalamocortical crosstalk can lead to neuropsychiatric disorders. Variants in CACNA1G, which encodes the α1G subunit of the thalamus-enriched T-type calcium channel, are associated with absence seizures, intellectual disability, and schizophrenia, but the cellular and circuit consequences of these genetic variants in humans remain unknown. Here, we developed a human assembloid model of the thalamocortical pathway to dissect the contribution of genetic variants in T-type calcium channels. We discovered that the M1531V CACNA1G variant associated with seizures led to changes in T-type currents in thalamic neurons, as well as correlated hyperactivity of thalamic and cortical neurons in assembloids. By contrast, CACNA1G loss, which has been associated with risk of schizophrenia, resulted in abnormal thalamocortical connectivity that was related to both increased spontaneous thalamic activity and aberrant axonal projections. These results illustrate the utility of multi-cellular systems for interrogating human genetic disease risk variants at both cellular and circuit level.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":"4048-4059.e7"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142471083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NeuronPub Date : 2024-12-18Epub Date: 2024-10-29DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2024.10.004
Ugurcan Mugan, Samantha L Hoffman, A David Redish
{"title":"Environmental complexity modulates information processing and the balance between decision-making systems.","authors":"Ugurcan Mugan, Samantha L Hoffman, A David Redish","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2024.10.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuron.2024.10.004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Behavior in naturalistic scenarios occurs in diverse environments. Adaptive strategies rely on multiple neural circuits and competing decision systems. However, past studies of rodent decision making have largely measured behavior in simple environments. To fill this gap, we recorded neural ensembles from hippocampus (HC), dorsolateral striatum (DLS), and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) while rats foraged for food under changing rules in environments with varying topological complexity. Environmental complexity increased behavioral variability, lengthened HC nonlocal sequences, and modulated action caching. We found contrasting representations between DLS and HC, supporting a competition between decision systems. dmPFC activity was indicative of setting this balance, in particular predicting the extent of HC non-local coding. Inactivating mPFC impaired short-term behavioral adaptation and produced long-term deficits in balancing decision systems. Our findings reveal the dynamic nature of decision-making systems and how environmental complexity modulates their engagement with implications for behavior in naturalistic environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":"4096-4114.e10"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142546571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NeuronPub Date : 2024-12-18DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2024.11.012
Kunal S Patel, Lindsey Dudley, Harley I Kornblum
{"title":"Give me a sign(ature): Converging on the CSC of glioblastoma.","authors":"Kunal S Patel, Lindsey Dudley, Harley I Kornblum","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2024.11.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2024.11.012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The identification of stem cells in glioblastomas has been controversial. In this issue of Neuron, Xie et al.<sup>1</sup> establish gene signatures for cellular states and a quiescent cancer stem cell (qCSC) and demonstrate that the qCSC population expands in recurrence.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":"112 24","pages":"3987-3988"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142865019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NeuronPub Date : 2024-12-18Epub Date: 2024-10-16DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2024.09.018
Andres Agudelo-Toro, Jonathan A Michaels, Wei-An Sheng, Hansjörg Scherberger
{"title":"Accurate neural control of a hand prosthesis by posture-related activity in the primate grasping circuit.","authors":"Andres Agudelo-Toro, Jonathan A Michaels, Wei-An Sheng, Hansjörg Scherberger","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2024.09.018","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuron.2024.09.018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have the potential to restore hand movement for people with paralysis, but current devices still lack the fine control required to interact with objects of daily living. Following our understanding of cortical activity during arm reaches, hand BCI studies have focused primarily on velocity control. However, mounting evidence suggests that posture, and not velocity, dominates in hand-related areas. To explore whether this signal can causally control a prosthesis, we developed a BCI training paradigm centered on the reproduction of posture transitions. Monkeys trained with this protocol were able to control a multidimensional hand prosthesis with high accuracy, including execution of the very intricate precision grip. Analysis revealed that the posture signal in the target grasping areas was the main contributor to control. We present, for the first time, neural posture control of a multidimensional hand prosthesis, opening the door for future interfaces to leverage this additional information channel.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":"4115-4129.e8"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142471080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NeuronPub Date : 2024-12-18Epub Date: 2024-10-22DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2024.09.021
Xize Xu, Mitchell P Morton, Sachira Denagamage, Nyomi V Hudson, Anirvan S Nandy, Monika P Jadi
{"title":"Spatial context non-uniformly modulates inter-laminar information flow in the primary visual cortex.","authors":"Xize Xu, Mitchell P Morton, Sachira Denagamage, Nyomi V Hudson, Anirvan S Nandy, Monika P Jadi","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2024.09.021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuron.2024.09.021","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Our visual experience is a result of the concerted activity of neuronal ensembles in the sensory hierarchy. Yet, how the spatial organization of objects influences this activity remains poorly understood. We investigate how inter-laminar information flow within the primary visual cortex (V1) is affected by visual stimuli in isolation or with flankers at spatial configurations that are known to cause non-uniform degradation of perception. By employing dimensionality reduction approaches to simultaneous, layer-specific population recordings, we establish that information propagation between cortical layers occurs along a structurally stable communication subspace. The spatial configuration of contextual stimuli differentially modulates inter-laminar communication efficacy, the balance of feedforward and effective feedback signaling, and contextual signaling in the superficial layers. Remarkably, these modulations mirror the spatially non-uniform aspects of perceptual degradation. Our results suggest a model of retinotopically non-uniform cortical connectivity in the output layers of V1 that influences information flow in the sensory hierarchy.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":"4081-4095.e5"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142504952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}