Oxford open neurosciencePub Date : 2025-06-11eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1093/oons/kvaf002
Dvija Mehta
{"title":"Brain-Computer Interface tool use and the Contemplation Conundrum: a blueprint of mental action, agency, and control.","authors":"Dvija Mehta","doi":"10.1093/oons/kvaf002","DOIUrl":"10.1093/oons/kvaf002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper approaches the role of intentional action in brain-computer interface (BCI) tool use to allow for an ethical discourse regarding the development and usage of neurotechnology. The exploration of mental actions and user control in BCI tool use brings us closer to understanding the philosophical underpinnings of intentions and agency for BCI-mediated actions. The author presents that under some theories of intentional action, certain BCI-mediated overt movements qualify as both voluntary and unintentional. This plausibly magnifies the ethical considerations surrounding BCI tool use. This problem is referred by the author as the contemplation conundrum. Thus, the paper proposes research scope for the neural correlates of intention formation and the neural correlates of imagination aimed at clarifying implementational control and safeguarding privacy of thought in BCI tool use.</p>","PeriodicalId":74386,"journal":{"name":"Oxford open neuroscience","volume":"4 ","pages":"kvaf002"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12199723/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144509877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oxford open neurosciencePub Date : 2025-05-16eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1093/oons/kvaf001
Mike Gilbert, Anders Rasmussen
{"title":"Computational anatomy: the cerebellar microzone computation.","authors":"Mike Gilbert, Anders Rasmussen","doi":"10.1093/oons/kvaf001","DOIUrl":"10.1093/oons/kvaf001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The cerebellum is a large brain structure. Most of the mass and volume of the cerebellum is made up by the cerebellar cortex. The outer layer of the cerebellar cortex is divided functionally into long, thin strips called microzones. We argue that the cerebellar microzone computation is the aggregate of simple unit computations and a passive effect of anatomy, unaided and unlearned, which we recreate <i>in silico.</i> This is likely to polarise opinion. In the traditional view, data processing by the cerebellum (stated very briefly) is the effect of learned synaptic changes. However, this has become difficult to reconcile with evidence that rate information is linearly conserved in cerebellar signalling. We present an alternative interpretation of cell morphologies and network architecture in the light of linear communication. Parallel fibre synaptic memory has a supporting role in the network computation.</p>","PeriodicalId":74386,"journal":{"name":"Oxford open neuroscience","volume":"4 ","pages":"kvaf001"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12089033/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144121626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oxford open neurosciencePub Date : 2024-11-23eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1093/oons/kvae012
Minerva Rodriguez, Anapaula Themann, Daniel E Calvo, Jessica A Garcia, Omar Lira, Israel Garcia-Carachure, Sergio D Iñiguez
{"title":"Social defeat stress induces an anxiety-like outcome in male prairie voles (<i>Microtus ochrogaster</i>).","authors":"Minerva Rodriguez, Anapaula Themann, Daniel E Calvo, Jessica A Garcia, Omar Lira, Israel Garcia-Carachure, Sergio D Iñiguez","doi":"10.1093/oons/kvae012","DOIUrl":"10.1093/oons/kvae012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Anxiety-related illnesses constitute one of the leading causes of disability across the globe. Consequently, the need for validated preclinical models to uncover the etiology of anxiety phenotypes remains essential. Given the link between social stress experience and the manifestation of anxiogenic-like outcomes, we evaluated whether social defeat stress (SDS) reduces open-space exploratory behavior in prairie voles (<i>Microtus ochrogaster</i>). Thus, we exposed adult sexually-naïve male voles to 10 consecutive days of SDS episodes and evaluated responses to the anxiogenic environment of the light/dark box test or the elevated plus-maze, 24 hours later. We found that, when compared to non-stressed controls, SDS-exposed voles displayed longer latency to enter the light compartment of the light/dark box. Similarly, on the elevated plus-maze, SDS-exposed voles displayed decreases in the number of entries into the open arms, while spending more time in the closed arms of the maze. No differences in locomotor activity were noted between the experimental groups. Collectively, these data indicate that chronic SDS exposure induces anxiety-like responses in adult male prairie voles, thus, providing a preclinical model for the study of social stress-induced anxiogenic phenotypes.</p>","PeriodicalId":74386,"journal":{"name":"Oxford open neuroscience","volume":"3 ","pages":"kvae012"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11629977/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142808590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oxford open neurosciencePub Date : 2024-11-14eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1093/oons/kvae011
Ahmad Abujaber, Said Yaseen, Yahia Imam, Abdulqadir Nashwan, Naveed Akhtar
{"title":"Machine learning-based prediction of one-year mortality in ischemic stroke patients.","authors":"Ahmad Abujaber, Said Yaseen, Yahia Imam, Abdulqadir Nashwan, Naveed Akhtar","doi":"10.1093/oons/kvae011","DOIUrl":"10.1093/oons/kvae011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Accurate prediction of mortality following an ischemic stroke is essential for tailoring personalized treatment strategies. This study evaluates the effectiveness of machine learning models in predicting one-year mortality after an ischemic stroke.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Five machine learning models were trained using data from a national stroke registry, with logistic regression demonstrating the highest performance. The SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) analysis explained the model's outcomes and defined the influential predictive factors.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Analyzing 8183 ischemic stroke patients, logistic regression achieved 83% accuracy, 0.89 AUC, and an F1 score of 0.83. Significant predictors included stroke severity, pre-stroke functional status, age, hospital-acquired pneumonia, ischemic stroke subtype, tobacco use, and co-existing diabetes mellitus (DM).</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The model highlights the importance of predicting mortality in enhancing personalized stroke care. Apart from pneumonia, all predictors can serve the early prediction of mortality risk which supports the initiation of early preventive measures and in setting realistic expectations of disease outcomes for all stakeholders. The identified tobacco paradox warrants further investigation.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study offers a promising tool for early prediction of stroke mortality and for advancing personalized stroke care. It emphasizes the need for prospective studies to validate these findings in diverse clinical settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":74386,"journal":{"name":"Oxford open neuroscience","volume":"3 ","pages":"kvae011"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11576476/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142683658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oxford open neurosciencePub Date : 2024-06-22eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1093/oons/kvae010
Mastura Akter, Zhongqi Fu, Xianlin Zheng, Zafar Iqbal, Na Zhang, Anwarul Karim, Ying Li
{"title":"Astrocytic GPCR signaling in the anterior cingulate cortex modulates decision making in rats.","authors":"Mastura Akter, Zhongqi Fu, Xianlin Zheng, Zafar Iqbal, Na Zhang, Anwarul Karim, Ying Li","doi":"10.1093/oons/kvae010","DOIUrl":"10.1093/oons/kvae010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Decision making is a process of selecting a course of action by assessing the worth or value of the potential consequences. Rat Gambling Task (RGT) is a well-established behavioral paradigm that allows for assessment of the decision-making performance of rats. Astrocytes are emerging as key players in modulating cognitive functions. Using repeated RGTs with short intersession time intervals (48 h), the current study demonstrates that G<sub>i</sub> pathway activation of astrocytes in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) leads to impaired decision-making in consistently good decision-making rats. On the other hand, ACC astrocytic G<sub>q</sub> pathway activation improves decision-making in a subset of rats who are not consistently good decision-makers. Furthermore, we show that astrocytic G<sub>q</sub> activation is associated with an increase in the L-lactate level in the extracellular fluid of the ACC. Together, these results expand our knowledge of the role of astrocytic GPCR signaling in modulating cognitive functions.</p>","PeriodicalId":74386,"journal":{"name":"Oxford open neuroscience","volume":"3 ","pages":"kvae010"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11194462/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141447729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modulation of marble-burying behavior in adult versus adolescent C57BL/6J mice of both sexes by ethologically relevant chemosensory stimuli","authors":"C. L. J. Chavez, K. Szumlinski","doi":"10.1093/oons/kvae009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oons/kvae009","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The marble-burying test is a pharmacologically validated paradigm used to study anxiety-like behaviors in laboratory rodents. Our laboratory has employed this assay as part of a behavioral screen to examine drug-induced negative affective states. Historically, the majority of our prior binge alcohol-drinking studies employed male subjects exclusively and reliably detected adolescent-adult differences in both basal and alcohol withdrawal-induced negative affect. However, age-related differences in marble-burying behavior were either absent or opposite those observed in our prior work when female subjects were included in the experimental design. As chemosensory cues from females are reported to be anxiolytic in males, the present study examined how odors from adult members of the opposite and same sex (obtained from soiled bedding) influence marble-burying behavior in adult, as well as adolescent, mice. Control studies examined the responsiveness of mice in the presence of novel neutral (vanilla) and aversive (tea tree) odors. Adult males exhibited reduced signs of anxiety-like behavior in the presence of female-soiled bedding, while adult females and adolescent mice of both sexes increased marble-burying behavior in the presence of both male- and female-soiled bedding. All mice exhibited increased burying in the presence of an aversive odor, while only adolescents increased marble-burying in response to the novel neutral odor. These data indicate sex by age interactions in the effects of volatile and nonvolatile odors from sexually-naive adult conspecifics on indices of anxiety-like behavior in the marble-burying test of relevance to the experimental design and procedural timing of experiments including sex as a biological variable.","PeriodicalId":74386,"journal":{"name":"Oxford open neuroscience","volume":"13 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141102681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Retina regeneration: lessons from vertebrates","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/oons/kvae008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oons/kvae008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74386,"journal":{"name":"Oxford open neuroscience","volume":"142 17","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141114727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kruttika Phalnikar, M. Srividya, S. Mythri, N. S. Vasavi, Archisha Ganguly, Aparajita Kumar, Padmaja S, Kishan Kalia, Srishti S Mishra, S. Dhanya, P. Paul, B. Holla, Suhas Ganesh, Puli Chandramouli Reddy, R. Sud, B. Viswanath, Bhavana Muralidharan
{"title":"Altered neuroepithelial morphogenesis and migration defects in iPSC-derived cerebral organoids and 2D neural stem cells in familial bipolar disorder","authors":"Kruttika Phalnikar, M. Srividya, S. Mythri, N. S. Vasavi, Archisha Ganguly, Aparajita Kumar, Padmaja S, Kishan Kalia, Srishti S Mishra, S. Dhanya, P. Paul, B. Holla, Suhas Ganesh, Puli Chandramouli Reddy, R. Sud, B. Viswanath, Bhavana Muralidharan","doi":"10.1093/oons/kvae007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oons/kvae007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Bipolar disorder (BD) is a severe mental illness that can result from neurodevelopmental aberrations, particularly in familial BD, which may include causative genetic variants. In the present study, we derived cortical organoids from BD patients and healthy (control) individuals from a clinically dense family in the Indian population. Our data reveal that the patient organoids show neurodevelopmental anomalies, including organisational, proliferation and migration defects. The BD organoids show a reduction in both the number of neuroepithelial buds/cortical rosettes and the ventricular zone size. Additionally, patient organoids show a lower number of SOX2-positive and EdU-positive cycling progenitors, suggesting a progenitor proliferation defect. Further, the patient neurons show abnormal positioning in the ventricular/intermediate zone of the neuroepithelial bud. Transcriptomic analysis of control and patient organoids supports our cellular topology data and reveals dysregulation of genes crucial for progenitor proliferation and neuronal migration. Lastly, time-lapse imaging of neural stem cells in 2D in vitro cultures reveals abnormal cellular migration in BD samples. Overall, our study pinpoints a cellular and molecular deficit in BD patient-derived organoids and neural stem cell cultures.","PeriodicalId":74386,"journal":{"name":"Oxford open neuroscience","volume":"103 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140747022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Monfils, Michael Pasala, Cassidy A. Malone, L. Agee, R. Roquet, Lawrence Cormack
{"title":"Effects of group size on movement patterns and clustering dynamics in rats","authors":"M. Monfils, Michael Pasala, Cassidy A. Malone, L. Agee, R. Roquet, Lawrence Cormack","doi":"10.1093/oons/kvae005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oons/kvae005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Environment is a determining factor that can facilitate or hinder social interactions. A precursor to meaningfully engaging with conspecifics is being exposed to opportunistic encounters with others. Increasing the number of individuals in a given space (thus increasing density) would, statistically speaking, increase the likelihood of accidental encounters. This might have consequences on the formation of social networks—an idea that has not reliably been explored. If true, we would expect that increasing density would lead to an increase in the number and the duration of ‘clusters’ of animals. Here, we examined whether varying the number of rats in an open field environment differentially affected their movement dynamics or their propensity to aggregate into clusters and, if so, whether such effects are dependent solely on statistical factors due to increases in density, the potential for actively-sought social interactions, or both. We found that the number of rats in an environment impacts ambulation speed, distance traveled, cluster formation and approaches, and that number and duration of clusters are highly dependent on the propensity for the rats to engage in social interactions.","PeriodicalId":74386,"journal":{"name":"Oxford open neuroscience","volume":"178 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140755106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. De Felice, U. Hakim, N. Gunasekara, P. Pinti, I. Tachtsidis, A. Hamilton
{"title":"Having a chat and then watching a movie: how social interaction synchronises our brains during co-watching","authors":"S. De Felice, U. Hakim, N. Gunasekara, P. Pinti, I. Tachtsidis, A. Hamilton","doi":"10.1093/oons/kvae006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oons/kvae006","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 How does co-presence change our neural experience of the world? Can a conversation change how we synchronise with our partner during later events? Using fNIRS hyperscanning, we measured brain activity from 27 pairs of familiar adults simultaneously over frontal, temporal and parietal regions bilaterally, as they co-watched two different episodes of a short cartoon. In-between the two episodes, each pair engaged in a face-to-face conversation on topics unrelated to the cartoon episodes. Brain synchrony was calculated using wavelet transform coherence and computed separately for real pairs and shuffled (pseudo) pairs. Findings reveal that real pairs showed increased brain synchrony over right Dorso-Lateral Pre-Frontal cortex (DLPFC) and right Superior Parietal Lobe (SPL), compared to pseudo pairs (who had never seen each other and watched the same movie at different times; uncorrected for multiple comparisons). In addition, co-watching after a conversation was associated with greater synchrony over right TPJ compared to co-watching before a conversation, and this effect was significantly higher in real pairs (who engaged in conversation with each other) compared to pseudo pairs (who had a conversation with someone else; uncorrected for multiple comparisons). The present study has shed the light on the role of social interaction in modulating brain synchrony across people not just during social interaction, but even for subsequent non-social activities. These results have implications in the growing domain of naturalistic neuroimaging and interactive neuroscience.","PeriodicalId":74386,"journal":{"name":"Oxford open neuroscience","volume":"112 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140381344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}