NeuronPub Date : 2025-03-19DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.022
Hong Bao, Shuxin Zheng, Yong Shen
{"title":"Sexual dimorphism in cerebrovascular dysfunction: The pivotal role of endothelial CD2AP in Alzheimer's disease.","authors":"Hong Bao, Shuxin Zheng, Yong Shen","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.022","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Why there is sex-biased susceptibility to cerebrovascular dysfunction remains enigmatic. Vandal et al.<sup>1</sup> reveal a sex-specific vulnerability to endothelial deficiency in CD2AP, an Alzheimer's disease risk gene, with impaired cerebrovascular reactivity, compromised cerebrovascular function, and cognitive decline, highlighting sex as an important biological variable in Alzheimer's disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":"113 6","pages":"797-800"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143670270","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 : 2025-03-19Epub Date: 2025-01-28DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.01.002
Hermany Munguba, Ipsit Srivastava, Vanessa A Gutzeit, Ashna Singh, Akshara Vijay, Melanie Kristt, Anisul Arefin, Sonal Thukral, Johannes Broichhagen, Joseph M Stujenske, Conor Liston, Joshua Levitz
{"title":"Projection-targeted photopharmacology reveals distinct anxiolytic roles for presynaptic mGluR2 in prefrontal- and insula-amygdala synapses.","authors":"Hermany Munguba, Ipsit Srivastava, Vanessa A Gutzeit, Ashna Singh, Akshara Vijay, Melanie Kristt, Anisul Arefin, Sonal Thukral, Johannes Broichhagen, Joseph M Stujenske, Conor Liston, Joshua Levitz","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.01.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.01.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dissecting how membrane receptors regulate neural circuits is critical for deciphering principles of neuromodulation and mechanisms of drug action. Here, we use a battery of optical approaches to determine how presynaptic metabotropic glutamate receptor 2 (mGluR2) in the basolateral amygdala (BLA) controls anxiety-related behavior in mice. Using projection-specific photopharmacological activation, we find that mGluR2-mediated presynaptic inhibition of ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC)-BLA, but not posterior insular cortex (pIC)-BLA, connections produces a long-lasting decrease in spatial avoidance. In contrast, presynaptic inhibition of pIC-BLA connections decreases social avoidance and novelty-induced hypophagia without impairing working memory, establishing this projection as a novel target for the treatment of anxiety disorders. Fiber photometry and viral mapping reveal distinct activity patterns and anatomical organization of vmPFC-BLA and pIC-BLA circuits. Together, this work reveals new aspects of BLA neuromodulation with therapeutic implications while establishing a powerful approach for optical mapping of drug action.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":"912-930.e6"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11925682/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143066981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NeuronPub Date : 2025-03-19Epub Date: 2025-01-20DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2024.12.023
Michael E Coulter, Anna K Gillespie, Joshua Chu, Eric L Denovellis, Trevor Thai K Nguyen, Daniel F Liu, Katherine Wadhwani, Baibhav Sharma, Kevin Wang, Xinyi Deng, Uri T Eden, Caleb Kemere, Loren M Frank
{"title":"Closed-loop modulation of remote hippocampal representations with neurofeedback.","authors":"Michael E Coulter, Anna K Gillespie, Joshua Chu, Eric L Denovellis, Trevor Thai K Nguyen, Daniel F Liu, Katherine Wadhwani, Baibhav Sharma, Kevin Wang, Xinyi Deng, Uri T Eden, Caleb Kemere, Loren M Frank","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2024.12.023","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuron.2024.12.023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Humans can remember specific remote events without acting on them and influence which memories are retrieved based on internal goals. However, animal models typically present sensory cues to trigger memory retrieval and then assess retrieval based on action. Thus, it is difficult to determine whether measured neural activity patterns relate to the cue(s), the memory, or the behavior. We therefore asked whether retrieval-related neural activity could be generated in animals without cues or a behavioral report. We focused on hippocampal \"place cells,\" which primarily represent the animal's current location (local representations) but can also represent locations away from the animal (remote representations). We developed a neurofeedback system to reward expression of remote representations and found that rats could learn to generate specific spatial representations that often jumped directly to the experimenter-defined target location. Thus, animals can deliberately engage remote representations, enabling direct study of retrieval-related activity in the brain.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":"949-961.e3"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143009073","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 : 2025-03-19Epub Date: 2025-03-10DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.019
Jinhyun Kim, Thomas J McHugh, Chul Hoon Kim, Hakwan Lau, Min-Ho Nam
{"title":"The future of neurotechnology: From big data to translation.","authors":"Jinhyun Kim, Thomas J McHugh, Chul Hoon Kim, Hakwan Lau, Min-Ho Nam","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.019","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.019","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Advances in neurotechnologies, including molecular tools, neural sensors, and large-scale recording, are transforming neuroscience and generating vast datasets. A recent meeting highlighted the resulting challenges in global collaboration, data management, and effective translation, emphasizing the need for innovative strategies to harness big data for diagnosing and treating brain disorders.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":"814-816"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143605326","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 : 2025-03-19DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.008
Marzia Malcangio, George Sideris-Lampretsas
{"title":"A look into the future: Your biological sex may guide chronic pain treatment.","authors":"Marzia Malcangio, George Sideris-Lampretsas","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Neuropathic pain constitutes a clinical problem more prevalent among women. In this issue of Neuron, Fan et al.<sup>1</sup> identify distinct sex-dependent pathways driving nociception. Importantly, T cells release the adipokine leptin in female but not male rodents, offering a novel approach for pain relief in women.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":"113 6","pages":"800-802"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143670258","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 : 2025-03-19DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.025
Lars Bollmann, Peter Baracskay, Federico Stella, Jozsef Csicsvari
{"title":"Sleep stages antagonistically modulate reactivation drift.","authors":"Lars Bollmann, Peter Baracskay, Federico Stella, Jozsef Csicsvari","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hippocampal reactivation of waking neuronal assemblies in sleep is a key initial step of systems consolidation. Nevertheless, it is unclear whether reactivated assemblies are static or whether they reorganize gradually over prolonged sleep. We tracked reactivated CA1 assembly patterns over ∼20 h of sleep/rest periods and related them to assemblies seen before or after in a spatial learning paradigm using rats. We found that reactivated assembly patterns were gradually transformed and started to resemble those seen in the subsequent recall session. Periods of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and non-REM (NREM) had antagonistic roles: whereas NREM accelerated the assembly drift, REM countered it. Moreover, only a subset of rate-changing pyramidal cells contributed to the drift, whereas stable-firing-rate cells maintained unaltered reactivation patterns. Our data suggest that prolonged sleep promotes the spontaneous reorganization of spatial assemblies, which can contribute to daily cognitive map changes or encoding new learning situations.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143710908","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 : 2025-03-19DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.020
Matthia A Karreman, Varun Venkataramani
{"title":"Calm in the chaos: Targeting mTOR to reduce glioma-driven neuronal hyperexcitability.","authors":"Matthia A Karreman, Varun Venkataramani","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Primary brain tumors induce neuronal hyperexcitability, leading to epileptic seizures. In this issue of Neuron, Goldberg et al.<sup>1</sup> demonstrate genetic, structural, and functional alterations to excitatory tumor-associated neurons and how mTOR inhibition rapidly reverses these changes in a mouse model.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":"113 6","pages":"795-797"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143670261","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 : 2025-03-19Epub Date: 2025-01-31DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.01.006
Milène Vandal, Adam Institoris, Louise Reveret, Ben Korin, Colin Gunn, Sotaro Hirai, Yulan Jiang, Sukyoung Lee, Jiyeon Lee, Philippe Bourassa, Ramesh C Mishra, Govind Peringod, Faye Arellano, Camille Belzil, Cyntia Tremblay, Mada Hashem, Kelsea Gorzo, Esteban Elias, Jinjing Yao, Bill Meilandt, Oded Foreman, Meron Roose-Girma, Steven Shin, Daniel Muruve, Wilten Nicola, Jakob Körbelin, Jeff F Dunn, Wayne Chen, Sang-Ki Park, Andrew P Braun, David A Bennett, Grant R J Gordon, Frédéric Calon, Andrey S Shaw, Minh Dang Nguyen
{"title":"Loss of endothelial CD2AP causes sex-dependent cerebrovascular dysfunction.","authors":"Milène Vandal, Adam Institoris, Louise Reveret, Ben Korin, Colin Gunn, Sotaro Hirai, Yulan Jiang, Sukyoung Lee, Jiyeon Lee, Philippe Bourassa, Ramesh C Mishra, Govind Peringod, Faye Arellano, Camille Belzil, Cyntia Tremblay, Mada Hashem, Kelsea Gorzo, Esteban Elias, Jinjing Yao, Bill Meilandt, Oded Foreman, Meron Roose-Girma, Steven Shin, Daniel Muruve, Wilten Nicola, Jakob Körbelin, Jeff F Dunn, Wayne Chen, Sang-Ki Park, Andrew P Braun, David A Bennett, Grant R J Gordon, Frédéric Calon, Andrey S Shaw, Minh Dang Nguyen","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.01.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.01.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Polymorphisms in CD2-associated protein (CD2AP) predispose to Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. Here, we show that loss of CD2AP in cerebral blood vessels is associated with cognitive decline in AD subjects and that genetic downregulation of CD2AP in brain vascular endothelial cells impairs memory function in male mice. Animals with reduced brain endothelial CD2AP display altered blood flow regulation at rest and during neurovascular coupling, defects in mural cell activity, and an abnormal vascular sex-dependent response to Aβ. Antagonizing endothelin-1 receptor A signaling partly rescues the vascular impairments, but only in male mice. Treatment of CD2AP mutant mice with reelin glycoprotein that mitigates the effects of CD2AP loss function via ApoER2 increases resting cerebral blood flow and even protects male mice against the noxious effect of Aβ. Thus, endothelial CD2AP plays critical roles in cerebrovascular functions and represents a novel target for sex-specific treatment in AD.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":"876-895.e11"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143075276","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 : 2025-03-19Epub Date: 2025-02-10DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.01.011
Yuriy Shymkiv, Jordan P Hamm, Sean Escola, Rafael Yuste
{"title":"Slow cortical dynamics generate context processing and novelty detection.","authors":"Yuriy Shymkiv, Jordan P Hamm, Sean Escola, Rafael Yuste","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.01.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.01.011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The cortex amplifies responses to novel stimuli while suppressing redundant ones. Novelty detection is necessary to efficiently process sensory information and build predictive models of the environment, and it is also altered in schizophrenia. To investigate the circuit mechanisms underlying novelty detection, we used an auditory \"oddball\" paradigm and two-photon calcium imaging to measure responses to simple and complex stimuli across mouse auditory cortex. Stimulus statistics and complexity generated specific responses across auditory areas. Neuronal ensembles reliably encoded auditory features and temporal context. Interestingly, stimulus-evoked population responses were particularly long lasting, reflecting stimulus history and affecting future responses. These slow cortical dynamics encoded stimulus temporal context and generated stronger responses to novel stimuli. Recurrent neural network models trained on the oddball task also exhibited slow network dynamics and recapitulated the biological data. We conclude that the slow dynamics of recurrent cortical networks underlie processing and novelty detection.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":"847-857.e8"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11925667/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143399695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NeuronPub Date : 2025-03-19Epub Date: 2025-03-06DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.004
Samira Parhizkar, David M Holtzman
{"title":"The night's watch: Exploring how sleep protects against neurodegeneration.","authors":"Samira Parhizkar, David M Holtzman","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sleep loss is often regarded as an early manifestation of neurodegenerative diseases given its common occurrence and link to cognitive dysfunction. However, the precise mechanisms by which sleep disturbances contribute to neurodegeneration are not fully understood, nor is it clear why some individuals are more susceptible to these effects than others. This review addresses critical unanswered questions in the field, including whether sleep disturbances precede or result from neurodegenerative diseases, the functional significance of sleep changes during the preclinical disease phase, and the potential role of sleep homeostasis as an adaptive mechanism enhancing resilience against cognitive decline and neurodegeneration.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":"817-837"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11925672/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143586396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}