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Ash RT, Palagina G, Fernandez-Leon JA, Park J, Seilheimer R, Lee S, Sabharwal J, Reyes F, Wang J, Lu D, Sarfraz M, Froudarakis E, Tolias AS, Wu SM, Smirnakis SM. Increased Reliability of Visually-Evoked Activity in Area V1 of the MECP2-Duplication Mouse Model of Autism. J Neurosci 2022; 42:6469-6482. [PMID: 35831173 PMCID: PMC9398540 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0654-22.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2022] [Revised: 05/15/2022] [Accepted: 06/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Atypical sensory processing is now thought to be a core feature of the autism spectrum. Influential theories have proposed that both increased and decreased neural response reliability within sensory systems could underlie altered sensory processing in autism. Here, we report evidence for abnormally increased reliability of visual-evoked responses in layer 2/3 neurons of adult male and female primary visual cortex in the MECP2-duplication syndrome animal model of autism. Increased response reliability was due in part to decreased response amplitude, decreased fluctuations in endogenous activity, and an abnormal decoupling of visual-evoked activity from endogenous activity. Similar to what was observed neuronally, the optokinetic reflex occurred more reliably at low contrasts in mutant mice compared with controls. Retinal responses did not explain our observations. These data suggest that the circuit mechanisms for combining sensory-evoked and endogenous signal and noise processes may be altered in this form of syndromic autism.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Atypical sensory processing is now thought to be a core feature of the autism spectrum. Influential theories have proposed that both increased and decreased neural response reliability within sensory systems could underlie altered sensory processing in autism. Here, we report evidence for abnormally increased reliability of visual-evoked responses in primary visual cortex of the animal model for MECP2-duplication syndrome, a high-penetrance single-gene cause of autism. Visual-evoked activity was abnormally decoupled from endogenous activity in mutant mice, suggesting in line with the influential "hypo-priors" theory of autism that sensory priors embedded in endogenous activity may have less influence on perception in autism.
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- Ryan T Ash
- Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305
- Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
- Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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- Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
- Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
- Centro de Investigaciones en Física e Ingeniería del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires and Instituto de Investigación en Tecnología Informática Avanzada, Exact Sciences Faculty-Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Tandil, Argentina
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- Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
- Program in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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- Program in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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- Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
- Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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- Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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- Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
- FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece 70013
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- Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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- Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
- Department of Ophthalmology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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- Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
- Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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Dai X, Zhang T, Yang H, Tang J, Carney PR, Jiang H. Fast noninvasive functional diffuse optical tomography for brain imaging. JOURNAL OF BIOPHOTONICS 2018; 11:e201600267. [PMID: 28696034 DOI: 10.1002/jbio.201600267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2016] [Revised: 04/23/2017] [Accepted: 06/29/2017] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Advances in epilepsy studies have shown that specific changes in hemodynamics precede and accompany seizure onset and propagation. However, it has been challenging to noninvasively detect these changes in real time and in humans, due to the lack of fast functional neuroimaging tools. In this study, we present a functional diffuse optical tomography (DOT) method with the guidance of an anatomical human head atlas for 3-dimensionally mapping the brain in real time. Central to our DOT system is a human head interface coupled with a technique that can incorporate topological information of the brain surface into the DOT image reconstruction. The performance of the DOT system was tested by imaging motor tasks-involved brain activities on N = 6 subjects (3 epilepsy patients and 3 healthy controls). We observed diffuse areas of activations from the reconstructed [HbT] images of patients, relative to more focal activations for healthy subjects. Moreover, significant pretask hemodynamic activations were also seen in the motor cortex of patients, which indicated abnormal activities persistent in the brain of an epilepsy patient. This work demonstrates that fast functional DOT is a valuable tool for noninvasive 3-dimensional mapping of brain hemodynamics.
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- Xianjin Dai
- J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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- J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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- J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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- J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Neurology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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Antic SD, Empson RM, Knöpfel T. Voltage imaging to understand connections and functions of neuronal circuits. J Neurophysiol 2016; 116:135-52. [PMID: 27075539 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00226.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2016] [Accepted: 04/11/2016] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Understanding of the cellular mechanisms underlying brain functions such as cognition and emotions requires monitoring of membrane voltage at the cellular, circuit, and system levels. Seminal voltage-sensitive dye and calcium-sensitive dye imaging studies have demonstrated parallel detection of electrical activity across populations of interconnected neurons in a variety of preparations. A game-changing advance made in recent years has been the conceptualization and development of optogenetic tools, including genetically encoded indicators of voltage (GEVIs) or calcium (GECIs) and genetically encoded light-gated ion channels (actuators, e.g., channelrhodopsin2). Compared with low-molecular-weight calcium and voltage indicators (dyes), the optogenetic imaging approaches are 1) cell type specific, 2) less invasive, 3) able to relate activity and anatomy, and 4) facilitate long-term recordings of individual cells' activities over weeks, thereby allowing direct monitoring of the emergence of learned behaviors and underlying circuit mechanisms. We highlight the potential of novel approaches based on GEVIs and compare those to calcium imaging approaches. We also discuss how novel approaches based on GEVIs (and GECIs) coupled with genetically encoded actuators will promote progress in our knowledge of brain circuits and systems.
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- Srdjan D Antic
- Stem Cell Institute, Institute for Systems Genomics, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut
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- Department of Physiology, Brain Research New Zealand, Otago School of Medical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand; and
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- Division of Brain Sciences, Department of Medicine and Centre for Neurotechnology, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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Zhang T, Zhou J, Carney PR, Jiang H. Towards real-time detection of seizures in awake rats with GPU-accelerated diffuse optical tomography. J Neurosci Methods 2014; 240:28-36. [PMID: 25445250 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2014.10.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2014] [Revised: 09/06/2014] [Accepted: 10/21/2014] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND Advancement in clinically relevant studies like seizure interruption using functional neuro imaging tools has shown that specific changes in hemodynamics precede and accompany seizure onset and propagation. However, preclinical seizure experiments need to be conducted in awake animals with images reconstructed and displayed in real-time. METHODS This article describes an approach that can be utilized to tackle these challenges. A subject specific head interface and restraining method was designed to allow for DOT to imaging of hemodynamic changes in unanesthetized rats during evoked acute seizures. Using CUDA programming model, the finite-element based nonlinear iterative algorithm for image reconstruction was parallelized. RESULTS Early hemodynamic changes were monitored in real time and observed tens of seconds prior to seizure onset. Utilizing the massive parallelization offered by graphic processing units (GPU), DOT was extended to online image reconstruction within 1s. COMPARISON WITH EXISTING METHODS Pre-seizure state related hemodynamic changes were detected in awake rats. 3D monitoring of hemodynamic changes was performed in real time with our parallelized image reconstruction procedure. CONCLUSION Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is a promising neuroimaging tool for the investigation of seizures in awake animals.
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- Tao Zhang
- J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA; Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA; Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
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Zhang T, Zhou J, Jiang R, Yang H, Carney PR, Jiang H. Pre-seizure state identified by diffuse optical tomography. Sci Rep 2014; 4:3798. [PMID: 24445927 PMCID: PMC3896905 DOI: 10.1038/srep03798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2013] [Accepted: 12/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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In epilepsy it has been challenging to detect early changes in brain activity that occurs prior to seizure onset and to map their origin and evolution for possible intervention. Here we demonstrate using a rat model of generalized epilepsy that diffuse optical tomography (DOT) provides a unique functional neuroimaging modality for noninvasively and continuously tracking such brain activities with high spatiotemporal resolution. We detected early hemodynamic responses with heterogeneous patterns, along with intracranial electroencephalogram gamma power changes, several minutes preceding the electroencephalographic seizure onset, supporting the presence of a "pre-seizure" state. We also observed the decoupling between local hemodynamic and neural activities. We found widespread hemodynamic changes evolving from local regions of the bilateral cortex and thalamus to the entire brain, indicating that the onset of generalized seizures may originate locally rather than diffusely. Together, these findings suggest DOT represents a powerful tool for mapping early seizure onset and propagation pathways.
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- Tao Zhang
- J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
- Department of Neurology, University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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Gilad A, Meirovithz E, Leshem A, Arieli A, Slovin H. Collinear stimuli induce local and cross-areal coherence in the visual cortex of behaving monkeys. PLoS One 2012. [PMID: 23185325 PMCID: PMC3501522 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Background Collinear patterns of local visual stimuli are used to study contextual effects in the visual system. Previous studies have shown that proximal collinear flankers, unlike orthogonal, can enhance the detection of a low contrast central element. However, the direct neural interactions between cortical populations processing the individual flanker elements and the central element are largely unknown. Methodology/Principal Findings Using voltage-sensitive dye imaging (VSDI) we imaged neural population responses in V1 and V2 areas in fixating monkeys while they were presented with collinear or orthogonal arrays of Gabor patches. We then studied the spatio-temporal interactions between neuronal populations processing individual Gabor patches in the two conditions. Time-frequency analysis of the stimulus-evoked VSDI signal showed power increase mainly in low frequencies, i.e., the alpha band (α; 7–14 Hz). Power in the α-band was more discriminative at a single trial level than other neuronal population measures. Importantly, the collinear condition showed an increased intra-areal (V1-V1 and V2-V2) and inter-areal (V1-V2) α-coherence with shorter latencies than the orthogonal condition, both before and after the removal of the stimulus contribution. α-coherence appeared between discrete neural populations processing the individual Gabor patches: the central element and the flankers. Conclusions/Significance Our findings suggest that collinear effects are mediated by synchronization in a distributed network of proximal and distant neuronal populations within and across V1 and V2.
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- Ariel Gilad
- The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
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Surmeier DJ, Carrillo-Reid L, Bargas J. Dopaminergic modulation of striatal neurons, circuits, and assemblies. Neuroscience 2011; 198:3-18. [PMID: 21906660 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.08.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2011] [Revised: 08/18/2011] [Accepted: 08/23/2011] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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In recent years, there has been a great deal of progress toward understanding the role of the striatum and dopamine in action selection. The advent of new animal models and the development of optical techniques for imaging and stimulating select neuronal populations have provided the means by which identified synapses, cells, and circuits can be reliably studied. This review attempts to summarize some of the key advances in this broad area, focusing on dopaminergic modulation of intrinsic excitability and synaptic plasticity in canonical microcircuits in the striatum as well as recent work suggesting that there are neuronal assemblies within the striatum devoted to particular types of computation and possibly action selection.
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- D J Surmeier
- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
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Nicolelis MAL, Lebedev MA. Principles of neural ensemble physiology underlying the operation of brain-machine interfaces. Nat Rev Neurosci 2009; 10:530-40. [PMID: 19543222 DOI: 10.1038/nrn2653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 232] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Research on brain-machine interfaces has been ongoing for at least a decade. During this period, simultaneous recordings of the extracellular electrical activity of hundreds of individual neurons have been used for direct, real-time control of various artificial devices. Brain-machine interfaces have also added greatly to our knowledge of the fundamental physiological principles governing the operation of large neural ensembles. Further understanding of these principles is likely to have a key role in the future development of neuroprosthetics for restoring mobility in severely paralysed patients.
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- Miguel A L Nicolelis
- Duke University Center for Neuroengineering and the Department of Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.
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Churchland MM, Yu BM, Sahani M, Shenoy KV. Techniques for extracting single-trial activity patterns from large-scale neural recordings. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2008; 17:609-18. [PMID: 18093826 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2007.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2007] [Revised: 10/15/2007] [Accepted: 11/03/2007] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Large, chronically implanted arrays of microelectrodes are an increasingly common tool for recording from primate cortex and can provide extracellular recordings from many (order of 100) neurons. While the desire for cortically based motor prostheses has helped drive their development, such arrays also offer great potential to advance basic neuroscience research. Here we discuss the utility of array recording for the study of neural dynamics. Neural activity often has dynamics beyond that driven directly by the stimulus. While governed by those dynamics, neural responses may nevertheless unfold differently for nominally identical trials, rendering many traditional analysis methods ineffective. We review recent studies - some employing simultaneous recording, some not - indicating that such variability is indeed present both during movement generation and during the preceding premotor computations. In such cases, large-scale simultaneous recordings have the potential to provide an unprecedented view of neural dynamics at the level of single trials. However, this enterprise will depend not only on techniques for simultaneous recording but also on the use and further development of analysis techniques that can appropriately reduce the dimensionality of the data, and allow visualization of single-trial neural behavior.
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- Mark M Churchland
- Neurosciences Program and Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, CISX, 330 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305-4075, United States.
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This special issue of the Journal of Physiology, Paris, is an outcome of NeuroComp'06, the first French conference in Computational Neuroscience. The preparation for this conference, held at Pont-à-Mousson in October 2006, was accompanied by a survey which has resulted in an up-to-date inventory of human resources and labs in France concerned with this emerging new field of research (see team directory in http://neurocomp.risc.cnrs.fr/). This thematic JPP issue gathers some of the key scientific presentations made on the occasion of this first interdisciplinary meeting, which should soon become recognized as a yearly national conference representative of a new scientific community. The present introductory paper presents the general scientific context of the conference and reviews some of the historical and conceptual foundations of Systems and Computational Neuroscience in France.
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Egger V. Imaging the activity of neuronal populations: when spikes don't flash and flashes don't spike. J Physiol 2007; 582:7. [PMID: 17510175 PMCID: PMC2075296 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2007.136036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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