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Week 0 (9/5) Life as Scientists, this Course - Ivan, Ralph, & Angeliki
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Week 1 (9/8, 9/12) Addiction - Nii Addy
Ito, R. et al. Dissociation in Conditioned Dopamine Release in the Nucleus Accumbens Core and Shell in Response to Cocaine Cues and during Cocaine-Seeking Behavior in Rats. J. Neuro 353, 1393-1398 (2000).
Phillips, P. E. M. et al. Subsecond dopamine release promotes cocaine seeking. Nature 20(19), 7489–7495 (2003).
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Week 2 (9/15, 9/19) Thermosensation - Elena Gracheva
Song, K. et al. The TRPM2 channel is a hypothalamic heat sensor that limits fever and can drive hypothermia. Science 353, 1393-1398 (2016).
Tan, C. H. et al. The TRPM2 ion channel is required for sensitivity to warmth. Nature 536, 460-463 (2016).
Julius, D. TRP Channels and Pain. Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol. 29:355–84 (2013).
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Week 3 (9/22, 9/26) Principles of Unique Mammalian Behaviors - Marcelo Dietrich
Betley, J.N. et al. Neurons for hunger and thirst transmit a
negative-valence teaching signal. Nature 521, 180-185 (2015).
Luquet, S. et al. NPY/AgRP Neurons Are Essential for Feeding in Adult Mice but Can Be Ablated in Neonates. Science 310, 683-685 (2005).
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Week 4 (9/29, 10/3) Neurodegeneration - Janghoo Lim
Bañez-Coronel, M. et al. RAN Translation in Huntington Disease. Neuron 88, 667-677 (2015).
Shi, Y. et al. ApoE4 markedly exacerbates tau-mediated
neurodegeneration in a mouse model of tauopathy. Nature (2017).
Lim, J. Neurodegeneration Slides (2017).
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Week 5 (10/6, 10/10) Spinal Cord Injury - Will Cafferty
Wang, X. et al. Deconstruction of Corticospinal Circuits for Goal- Directed Motor Skills. Cell 171, 440-455 (2017).
Kadoya, K. et al. Spinal cord reconstitution with homologous neural grafts enables robust corticospinal regeneration. Nature Medicine 22, 479-487 (2016).
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Week 6 (10/13, 10/17) GABAergic Neurons and Inhibition in the Cerebral Cortex - Mike Higley
Chen, S.X. et al. Subtype-specific plasticity of inhibitory circuits in motor cortex during motor learning. Nature Neuroscience 18, 1109-1115 (2015).
Fu, Y. et al. A Cortical Circuit for Gain Control by Behavioral State. Cell 156, 1139-1152 (2014).
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Week 7 (10/27, 10/31) Functional Connectivity- Linking Brain to Behavior - Todd Constable
Gabrieli, J.D.E. et al.Prediction as a Humanitarian and Pragmatic Contribution from Human Cognitive Neuroscience. Neuron 85, 11-26 (2015).
Cabral, J. et al. Cognitive performance in healthy older adults relates to spontaneous switching between states of functional connectivity during rest. Scientific Reports 7:5135, 1-13 (2017).
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Week 8 (11/3, 11/7) Retinal Circuitry - Jon Demb
Franke, K. et al. Inhibition decorrelates visual feature representations in the inner retina. Nature 542, 439-444 (2017).
Hsiang, J.C. et al. Local processing in neurites of VGluT3-expressing amacrine cells differentially organizes visual information. eLife (2017).
Demb, J.B. and Singer, J.H. Functional Circuitry of the Retina (2015). [SUGGESTED REVIEW]
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Week 9 (11/10, 11/28) Learning and Decision Making - Hyojung Seo
Walton, M.E. et al. Separable Learning Systems in the Macaque Brain and the Role of Orbitofrontal
Cortex in Contingent Learning. Neuron 65, 927-939 (2010).
Miyamoto, K. et al. Causal neural network of metamemory for retrospection in primates. Science 355, 188-193 (2017).
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Week 10 (12/1, 12/5) Computational Neuroscience - John Murray
Machens, C.K. et al. Flexible Control of Mutual Inhibition: A Neural Model of Two-Interval Discrimination Science 307, 1121-1124 (2005).
Wong, K.F. et al. [UPDATED] A Recurrent Network Mechanism of Time Integration in Perceptual Decisions. Journal of Neuroscience 26(4):1314 –1328 (2006).
Goldman, M.S. et al. [OPTIONAL REVIEW] Neural Integrator Models. Encyclopedia of Neuroscience 6, 165-1788 (2009).
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Week 11 (12/8, 12/12) Prefrontal Cortical Mechanisms in Mental Disorders - Amy Arnsten
Kritzer, M.F. et al. Intrinsic Circuit Organization of the Major Layers and Sublayers of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in the Rhesus Monkey. The Journal of Comparative Neurology 359, 131-143 (1995).
Kolluri, N. et al. Lamina-Specific Reductions in Dendritic Spine Density in the Prefrontal Cortex of Subjects With Schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry 162(6):1200 –1202 (2005).
