A new measure for the strength of electrical synapses [PDF]
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2015 Electrical synapses, like chemical synapses, mediate intraneuronal communication. Electrical synapses are typically quantified by subthreshold measurements of coupling, which fall short in describing their impact on spiking activity in coupled neighbors.
Julie S Haas
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On the Diverse Functions of Electrical Synapses [PDF]
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2022 Electrical synapses are the neurophysiological product of gap junctional pores between neurons that allow bidirectional flow of current between neurons.
Mitchell J. Vaughn, Julie S. Haas
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Electrical synapses regulate both subthreshold integration and population activity of principal cells in response to transient inputs within canonical feedforward circuits. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2019 As information about the world traverses the brain, the signals exchanged between neurons are passed and modulated by synapses, or specialized contacts between neurons.
Tuan Pham, Julie S Haas
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INX-18 and INX-19 play distinct roles in electrical synapses that modulate aversive behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2019 In order to respond to changing environments and fluctuations in internal states, animals adjust their behavior through diverse neuromodulatory mechanisms.
Lisa Voelker +6 more
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A new player in circadian networks: Role of electrical synapses in regulating functions of the circadian clock [PDF]
Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 Several studies have indicated that coherent circadian rhythms in behaviour can be manifested only when the underlying circadian oscillators function as a well-coupled network.
Aishwarya Ramakrishnan Iyer +2 more
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Extensive GJD2 Expression in the Song Motor Pathway Reveals the Extent of Electrical Synapses in the Songbird Brain [PDF]
Biology, 2021 Birdsong is a precisely timed animal behavior. The connectivity of song premotor neural networks has been proposed to underlie the temporal patterns of neuronal activity that control vocal muscle movements during singing.
Pepe Alcami +6 more
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Function and Plasticity of Electrical Synapses in the Mammalian Brain: Role of Non-Junctional Mechanisms [PDF]
Biology, 2022 Electrical transmission between neurons is largely mediated by gap junctions. These junctions allow the direct flow of electric current between neurons, and in mammals, they are mostly composed of the protein connexin36.
Sebastian Curti +2 more
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A genetic basis for molecular asymmetry at vertebrate electrical synapses [PDF]
eLife, 2017 Neural network function is based upon the patterns and types of connections made between neurons. Neuronal synapses are adhesions specialized for communication and they come in two types, chemical and electrical. Communication at chemical synapses occurs
Adam C Miller +6 more
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Feed-forward recruitment of electrical synapses enhances synchronous spiking in the mouse cerebellar cortex [PDF]
eLife, 2020 In the cerebellar cortex, molecular layer interneurons use chemical and electrical synapses to form subnetworks that fine-tune the spiking output of the cerebellum.
Andreas Hoehne +2 more
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Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2020 Electrical and chemical synapses shape the dynamics of neural networks, and their functional roles in information processing have been a longstanding question in neurobiology.
Marius E. Yamakou +5 more
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