New pub! 🥳 Selective control of synaptically-connected circuit elements by all-optical synapses disq.us/t/44aicgv & highlight by Divya Abhat neuronex.org/news/22 #NSFfunded #NeuroNex #BrownBrainScience Central Michigan U. UC San Diego Carney Institute for Brain Science

Grid cells 2.0 - the collective life of grid cells: They live on a 🍩 and can never leave it. 🥂 to an outstanding #Neuropixels team: Rich Gardner Erik Hermansen Nils Baas Yoram Burak Benjamin Dunn May-Britt Moser Marius Pachitariu Kavli Neuroscience ELSC Brain #Gridcell #KiloNeurons nature

Here, we deconstruct the molecular, spatial, and functional organization of the PAG by combining snRNA-seq and MERFISH. Our data provide the first comprehensive cell atlas of the PAG, with detailed spatial coordinates and functional annotations of molecularly defined cell types.

stumbled upon this essay on the importance of unsupervised play in children and its relation to democracy cosmosandtaxis.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/horwit… Very motivating for our #brainplay ERC synergy research on brain mechanisms of play behavior by Dietmar Schmitz Lab Brecht Lab Bavellier Gütig labs.

🥳New preprint is out (finally!) 🥳 We developed a behavioral paradigm that uses SWR-triggered neurofeedback to modulate awake replay in rats!

Has anyone solved the light artifact problem on NeuroPixel probes?

“We show that LaTeX users were slower than Word users, wrote less text in the same amount of time, and produced more typesetting, orthographical, grammatical, and formatting errors. “ journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… Thanks Florian Buehler

Why is 1/f everywhere? So many reasons. So little self organized criticality.

Our new review on interneurons and memory is out in Neuron Neuron sciencedirect.com/science/articl… I hope someone finds it useful! Thanks to fellow first authors Alexandra Tzilivaki and Nikolaus Maier, Dietmar Schmitz Lab, and all co-authors for making this happen. Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin Collaborative Research Center 1315 @DZNE_en

Storytime! Please RT/share! I am hyped to share that my PhD work is now preprinted (also my 1st-1st author paper). It was quite a journey! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… It’s a story about binge eating and flavor, a short thread here: 1/n

Happy to share an essay I´ve been working on in the last months about 5-HT and the psychedelic experience t.ly/O7rjA . It comes with a 5-HT2A RNA online visualizer …4875678597657-5-ht2a-merfish.hf.space

"maladaptive perseveration as a consequence of an inappropriate bias to exploitation via positive reinforcement", sounds familiar 😁🤔. Interesting read suggesting at least one mechanism/pathway underlying this.

So pleased to see this out finally! 🥳 We investigated the spatiotemporal neocortical dynamic during CA1 Ripples! Hippocampus 🤝 Retrosplenial Work with: Neuronal Networks of Memory (Battaglia lab), Federico Stella, Majid Mohajerani, Christophe Bernard, Mojtaba and Loig Kergoat Link: academic.oup.com/cercor/article…

So happy to finally see this out! We harnessed the simplicity of coding in the cortical head-direction circuit (which represents a 1D circular variable 🧭) to look for principles governing interneuron tuning, which is notoriously fuzzy😵‍💫 [1/n] nature.com/articles/s4159…

A German initiative (in German) to change the law, giving scientists similar rights to "normal" employees, pls support: weact.campact.de/petitions/stop…

Ultraslow serotonin oscillations in the hippocampus delineate substates across NREM and waking biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

proud to play a small part in this preprint by the amazing Claire Cooper et al, showing ultraslow oscillations of serotonin in hippocampus, with the *change* (ie rise or fall), rather than serotonin level itself, correlating with all sorts of brain states: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

our latest paper is out Dietmar Schmitz Lab ! MD student Ze Chen did a great job with modified rabies virus tracing, suggesting novel direct connections from memory- and navigation-relevant brain areas onto L3 pyramidal cells in the medial entorhinal cortex rdcu.be/ec0ha