Neuroscience bulletinPub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-02-08DOI: 10.1007/s12264-025-01359-7
Long Li, Hao Bai, Linyan Wu, Liang Zheng, Liang Huang, Yang Li, Wenlong Zhang, Jue Wang, Shunnan Ge, Yan Qu, Tian Liu
{"title":"Non-invasive Modulation of Deep Brain Nuclei by Temporal Interference Stimulation.","authors":"Long Li, Hao Bai, Linyan Wu, Liang Zheng, Liang Huang, Yang Li, Wenlong Zhang, Jue Wang, Shunnan Ge, Yan Qu, Tian Liu","doi":"10.1007/s12264-025-01359-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12264-025-01359-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Temporal interference (TI) is a form of stimulation that epitomizes an innovative and non-invasive approach for profound neuromodulation of the brain, a technique that has been validated in mice. Yet, the thin cranial bone structure of mice has a marginal influence on the effect of the TI technique and may not effectively showcase its effectiveness in larger animals. Based on this, we carried out TI stimulation experiments on rats. Following the TI intervention, analysis of electrophysiological data and immunofluorescence staining indicated the generation of a stimulation focus within the nucleus accumbens (depth, 8.5 mm) in rats. Our findings affirm the viability of the TI methodology in the presence of thick cranial bones, furnishing efficacious parameters for profound stimulation with TI administered under such conditions. This experiment not only sheds light on the intervention effects of TI deep in the brain but also furnishes robust evidence in support of its prospective clinical utility.</p>","PeriodicalId":19314,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"853-865"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12014995/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143370810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Neuroscience bulletinPub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1007/s12264-025-01368-6
Shuo Zhang, Lingyu Xu, Yila Ding, Cenglin Xu
{"title":"\"CATCH ME IF YOU CAN\": Unlocking the Hidden Key in Obesity Intervention via the Vagus-Jejunum Axis.","authors":"Shuo Zhang, Lingyu Xu, Yila Ding, Cenglin Xu","doi":"10.1007/s12264-025-01368-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12264-025-01368-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19314,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"929-931"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12014880/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143537488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Neuroscience bulletinPub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-02-20DOI: 10.1007/s12264-024-01347-3
Tingting Wu, Qiuxuan Yu, Ximei Zhu, Yinjiao Li, Mingyue Zhang, Jiahui Deng, Lin Lu
{"title":"Embracing Internal States: A Review of Optimization of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Treating Depression.","authors":"Tingting Wu, Qiuxuan Yu, Ximei Zhu, Yinjiao Li, Mingyue Zhang, Jiahui Deng, Lin Lu","doi":"10.1007/s12264-024-01347-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12264-024-01347-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a rapid and effective therapy for major depressive disorder; however, there is significant variability in therapeutic outcomes both within and across individuals, with approximately 50% of patients showing no response to rTMS treatment. Many studies have personalized the stimulation parameters of rTMS (e.g., location and intensity of stimulation) according to the anatomical and functional structure of the brain. In addition to these parameters, the internal states of the individual, such as circadian rhythm, behavior/cognition, neural oscillation, and neuroplasticity, also contribute to the variation in rTMS effects. In this review, we summarize the current literature on the interaction between rTMS and internal states. We propose two possible methods, multimodal treatment, and adaptive closed-loop treatment, to integrate patients' internal states to achieve better rTMS treatment for depression.</p>","PeriodicalId":19314,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"866-880"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12014982/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143458737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prediction of Pharmacoresistance in Drug-Naïve Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Using Ictal EEGs Based on Convolutional Neural Network.","authors":"Yiwei Gong, Zheng Zhang, Yuanzhi Yang, Shuo Zhang, Ruifeng Zheng, Xin Li, Xiaoyun Qiu, Yang Zheng, Shuang Wang, Wenyu Liu, Fan Fei, Heming Cheng, Yi Wang, Dong Zhou, Kejie Huang, Zhong Chen, Cenglin Xu","doi":"10.1007/s12264-025-01350-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12264-025-01350-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Approximately 30%-40% of epilepsy patients do not respond well to adequate anti-seizure medications (ASMs), a condition known as pharmacoresistant epilepsy. The management of pharmacoresistant epilepsy remains an intractable issue in the clinic. Its early prediction is important for prevention and diagnosis. However, it still lacks effective predictors and approaches. Here, a classical model of pharmacoresistant temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) was established to screen pharmacoresistant and pharmaco-responsive individuals by applying phenytoin to amygdaloid-kindled rats. Ictal electroencephalograms (EEGs) recorded before phenytoin treatment were analyzed. Based on ictal EEGs from pharmacoresistant and pharmaco-responsive rats, a convolutional neural network predictive model was constructed to predict pharmacoresistance, and achieved 78% prediction accuracy. We further found the ictal EEGs from pharmacoresistant rats have a lower gamma-band power, which was verified in seizure EEGs from pharmacoresistant TLE patients. Prospectively, therapies targeting the subiculum in those predicted as \"pharmacoresistant\" individual rats significantly reduced the subsequent occurrence of pharmacoresistance. These results demonstrate a new methodology to predict whether TLE individuals become resistant to ASMs in a classic pharmacoresistant TLE model. This may be of translational importance for the precise management of pharmacoresistant TLE.</p>","PeriodicalId":19314,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"790-804"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12014894/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143047400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Glutamate-gated Chloride Channel Facilitates Sleep by Enhancing the Excitability of Two Pairs of Neurons in the Ventral Nerve Cord of Drosophila.","authors":"Yaqian Fan, Yao Tian, Junhai Han","doi":"10.1007/s12264-025-01397-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-025-01397-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sleep, an essential and evolutionarily conserved behavior, is regulated by numerous neurotransmitter systems. In mammals, glutamate serves as the wake-promoting signaling agent, whereas in Drosophila, it functions as the sleep-promoting signal. However, the precise molecular and cellular mechanisms through which glutamate promotes sleep remain elusive. Our study reveals that disruption of glutamate signaling significantly diminishes nocturnal sleep, and a neural cell-specific knockdown of the glutamate-gated chloride channel (GluClα) markedly reduces nocturnal sleep. We identified two pairs of neurons in the ventral nerve cord (VNC) that receive glutamate signaling input, and the GluClα derived from these neurons is crucial for sleep promotion. Furthermore, we demonstrated that GluClα mediates the glutamate-gated inhibitory input to these VNC neurons, thereby promoting sleep. Our findings elucidate that GluClα enhances nocturnal sleep by mediating the glutamate-gated inhibitory input to two pairs of VNC neurons, providing insights into the mechanism of sleep promotion in Drosophila.</p>","PeriodicalId":19314,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143983582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Meng-Ge Li, Shu-Ting Qu, Yang Yu, Zhenhua Xu, Fu-Chao Zhang, Yong-Chang Li, Rong Gao, Guang-Yin Xu
{"title":"Upregulation of NR2A in Glutamatergic VTA Neurons Contributes to Chronic Visceral Pain in Male Mice.","authors":"Meng-Ge Li, Shu-Ting Qu, Yang Yu, Zhenhua Xu, Fu-Chao Zhang, Yong-Chang Li, Rong Gao, Guang-Yin Xu","doi":"10.1007/s12264-025-01402-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-025-01402-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Chronic visceral pain is a persistent and debilitating condition arising from dysfunction or sensitization of the visceral organs and their associated nervous pathways. Increasing evidence suggests that imbalances in central nervous system function play an essential role in the progression of visceral pain, but the exact mechanisms underlying the neural circuitry and molecular targets remain largely unexplored. In the present study, the ventral tegmental area (VTA) was shown to mediate visceral pain in mice. Visceral pain stimulation increased c-Fos expression and Ca<sup>2+</sup> activity of glutamatergic VTA neurons, and optogenetic modulation of glutamatergic VTA neurons altered visceral pain. In particular, the upregulation of NMDA receptor 2A (NR2A) subunits within the VTA resulted in visceral pain in mice. Administration of a selective NR2A inhibitor decreased the number of visceral pain-induced c-Fos positive neurons and attenuated visceral pain. Pharmacology combined with chemogenetics further demonstrated that glutamatergic VTA neurons regulated visceral pain behaviors based on NR2A. In summary, our findings demonstrated that the upregulation of NR2A in glutamatergic VTA neurons plays a critical role in visceral pain. These insights provide a foundation for further comprehension of the neural circuits and molecular targets involved in chronic visceral pain and may pave the way for targeted therapies in chronic visceral pain.</p>","PeriodicalId":19314,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144020374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancement of Ca<sup>2+</sup> Signal Strength in Astrocytes in the Lateral Septum Improves Cognitive Disorders in Mice After Hemorrhagic Shock and Resuscitation.","authors":"Wen-Guang Li, Lan-Xin Li, Rong-Xin Song, Xu-Peng Wang, Shi-Yan Jia, Xiao-Yi Ma, Jing-Yu Zhang, Gang-Feng Yin, Xiao-Ming Li, Li-Min Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s12264-025-01404-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-025-01404-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hemorrhagic shock is a common clinical emergency that can aggravate cell injury after resuscitation. Astrocytes are crucial for the survival of neurons because they regulate the surrounding ionic microenvironment of neurons. Although hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation (HSR) injury can impair cognition, it remains unclear how this insult directly affects astrocytes. In this study, we established an HSR model by bleeding and re-transfusion in mice. The social interaction test and new object recognition test were applied to evaluate post-operative cognitive changes, and the results suggest that mice experience cognitive impairment following exposure to HSR. In the HSR group, the power spectral density of β and γ oscillations decreased, and the coupling of the θ oscillation phase and γ oscillation amplitude was abnormal, which indicated abnormal neuronal oscillation and cognitive impairment after HSR exposure. In brief, cognitive impairment in mice is strongly correlated with Ca<sup>2+</sup> signal strength in lateral septum astrocytes following HSR.</p>","PeriodicalId":19314,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144004848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neural Responses to Hypoxic Injury in a Vascularized Cerebral Organoid Model.","authors":"Yang Li, Xin-Yao Sun, Peng-Ming Zeng, Zhen-Ge Luo","doi":"10.1007/s12264-025-01396-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-025-01396-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hypoxic injury (HI) in the prenatal period often causes neonatal neurological disabilities. Due to the difficulty in obtaining clinical samples, the molecular and cellular mechanisms remain unclear. Here we use vascularized cerebral organoids to investigate the hypoxic injury phenotype and explore the intercellular interactions between vascular and neural tissues under hypoxic conditions. Our results indicate that fused vascularized cerebral organoids exhibit broader hypoxic responses and larger decreases in panels of neural development-related genes when exposed to low oxygen levels compared to single cerebral organoids. Interestingly, vessels also exhibit neural protective effects on T-box brain protein 2<sup>+</sup> intermediate progenitors (IPs), which are markedly lost in HI cerebral organoids. Furthermore, we identify the role of bone morphogenic protein signaling in protecting IPs. Thus, this study has established an in vitro organoid system that can be used to study the contribution of vessels to brain injury under hypoxic conditions and provides a strategy for the identification of intervention targets.</p>","PeriodicalId":19314,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144002953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolution of the Rich Club Properties in Mouse, Macaque, and Human Brain Networks: A Study of Functional Integration, Segregation, and Balance.","authors":"Xiaoru Zhang, Ming Song, Wentao Jiang, Yuheng Lu, Congying Chu, Wen Li, Haiyan Wang, Weiyang Shi, Yueheng Lan, Tianzi Jiang","doi":"10.1007/s12264-025-01393-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-025-01393-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The rich club, as a community of highly interconnected nodes, serves as the topological center of the network. However, the similarities and differences in how the rich club supports functional integration and segregation in the brain across different species remain unknown. In this study, we first detected and validated the rich club in the structural networks of mouse, monkey, and human brains using neuronal tracing or diffusion magnetic resonance imaging data. Further, we assessed the role of rich clubs in functional integration, segregation, and balance using quantitative metrics. Our results indicate that the presence of a rich club facilitates whole-brain functional integration in all three species, with the functional networks of higher species exhibiting greater integration. These findings are expected to help to understand the relationship between brain structure and function from the perspective of brain evolution.</p>","PeriodicalId":19314,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144030179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mo Wang, Sixian Song, Dan Li, Guangchao Zhao, Yu Luo, Yi Tian, Jiajia Zhang, Quanying Liu, Pengfei Wei
{"title":"Transcranial temporal interference stimulation precisely targets deep brain regions to regulate eye movements.","authors":"Mo Wang, Sixian Song, Dan Li, Guangchao Zhao, Yu Luo, Yi Tian, Jiajia Zhang, Quanying Liu, Pengfei Wei","doi":"10.1007/s12264-025-01387-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-025-01387-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transcranial temporal interference stimulation (tTIS) is a novel non-invasive neuromodulation technique with the potential to precisely target deep brain structures. This study explores the neural and behavioral effects of tTIS on the superior colliculus (SC), a region involved in eye movement control, in mice. Computational modeling revealed that tTIS delivers more focused stimulation to the SC than traditional transcranial alternating current stimulation. In vivo experiments, including Ca<sup>2+</sup> signal recordings and eye movement tracking, showed that tTIS effectively modulates SC neural activity and induces eye movements. A significant correlation was found between stimulation frequency and saccade frequency, suggesting direct tTIS-induced modulation of SC activity. These results demonstrate the precision of tTIS in targeting deep brain regions and regulating eye movements, highlighting its potential for neuroscientific research and therapeutic applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":19314,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144012660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}