Dennis Nestvogel @neural_nestbird@qoto.org
Neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
Brain States / Thalamocortical Interactions / Psychiatry
Hey everyone! Happy to be "over here" 🐘 and excited to share our latest work: gamma oscillations enable precise spike timing and visual coding across the mouse visual system! Fantastic #neuroscience team effort by Donghoon, Kayla, Tony, and Joseph. Free share link: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1gspg3BtfH5Loh
Distinct roles of forward and backward alpha-band waves in spatial visual attention
Suppression of distracting inputs by visual-spatial cues is driven by anticipatory alpha activity
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002014
Happy birthday…to us! 😉😃 🎂🥳 We're celebrating a milestone anniversary today: 75 years ago, on February 26, 1948, the Max Planck Society was formally founded in Göttingen as the successor organization to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. #maxplanck75 #maxplanckhistory
P300 linked to alpha oscillations! 🔥
Event-related modulation of alpha rhythm explains the auditory P300 evoked response in EEG
Nanthia Suthana
A wearable platform for closed-loop stimulation and recording of single-neuron and local field potential activity in freely moving humans https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01260-4.pdf
Having a 2nd go at Wanderwolf's "An odyssey through the brain, behavior and the mind". Lots of good tidbits, such as:
"Research is sometimes compared to putting together a jigsaw puzzle. If this analogy is to be accepted, it is important to understand that in the research puzzle the number of pieces is unknown, many of the pieces are missing or belonging to a different puzzle, some of the pieces are simply random bits of material [...], and one has no idea what the final picture will look like".
How does the brain organize spontaneous behavior? Our latest (from the amazing Jeff Markowitz, Win Gillis and Maya Jay), reveals a surprising role for dopamine as a teaching signal during free exploration, even without an explicit task or exogenous reward.
Our new work with @TimGollisch and team is now out as a @biorxivpreprint!
We found that gaze shifts in natural movies drive concerted responses in populations of retinal ganglion cells. We think that these concerted responses violate the decorrelation prediction of efficient coding in a cell-type-specific manner in both marmosets and mice.
Check the manuscript for more details!
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.10.523412v1?rss=1
Spontaneous cortical dynamics from the first years to the golden years
Neuronal oscillations: early biomarkers of psychiatric disease?
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.1038981/full
You were interested in capturing retinal axons in mouse superior colliculus in vivo (doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32775-2)? You will be excited by thalamocortical axons in mouse cortex! Check out our latest story on mapping thalamocortical monosynaptic connectivity in vivo (doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.28.522000) using #Neuropixels. By @JeremieSibille and Carolin Gehr, funded by the DFG.
1/ Please check out our recent review "The plasticitome of cortical interneurons" that just came out in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-022-00663-9
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I do #NeuroScience and am interested in the #Circuit dynamics of adaptive but reliable visually guided #Behavior.
In our group at the University of #Bonn, we study
- the stabilization of the neural code in #Vision, #Perception, #Learning, and #Memory
- the pathway-specific processing of #Sensory and #SelfMotion signals
We emphasize ethologically relevant behavior, longitudinal #Optophysiology, and miniaturized and benchtop #TwoPhoton microscopy.
www.troselab.de
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What a pre-Xmas treat: Exciting study on FKBP5 expression in humans considering cell type, age and psychiatric disorders. Congratulations to Nathalie Matosin
@postmortemgirl@twitter
and the whole team.
https://twitter.com/postmortemgirl/status/1604804759986536449?s=20&t=0v7tvqtAmVUYZGlY9ut6Lg
Apply for a PhD position in our new lab at SIDB, University of Edinburgh! We will use behavioral approaches, VR, electrophysiology and optical methods to asses locus coeruleus function in wild type and mouse models of autism spectrum disorder. Please share widely!
I am reading Bianchi's classic from 1895, "The functions of the frontal lobes", and I love the introduction ("with wholly unprejudiced mind, I began...") and the method of testing the electrical current ("I used to test the strength of current on my tongue"). The latter is clearly unhealthy, but even a few years ago the process for getting a gigaseal was somewhat similar... (yuck).
https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/18.4.497
Neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
Brain States / Thalamocortical Interactions / Psychiatry
