Author name: Jami L. Milton

Neuromodulation has the potential to transform how we treat chronic conditions of the nervous system, from pain, injury, and even certain neuropsychiatric conditions. Dr. Kip Ludwig leads the Bioelectronic Medicines Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin. There he develops next-generation neuromodulation therapies that use minimally invasive strategies. One way Kip explores how neuromodulation affects neural

Chronic pain affects 290 million people worldwide, and is an extremely unpleasant experience to endure every day. No wonder global sales of chronic pain medications are the highest of any neuropharmaceutical sales topping over 26 billion globally. The need for pain relief that doesn’t produce unwanted side effects, like a serious addiction, has reached an

Happy New Year! Before we get too far into 2019, check out our must-read list of papers relevant to the circuit neuroscience community published in December. See if there are any papers you may have missed in all the holiday hubbub. Cheers! 1. Stochastic synaptic plasticity underlying compulsion in a model of addiction by Vincent

Every month we pick the must-read research papers of relevance to the circuit neuroscience community. In November, there was again an impressive plethora of papers to peruse across journals, and we highlight 11 of them here. From dopamine circuits in aversion to amygdala → hippocampus circuits in mood, happy reading! 1. Dopamine enhances signal-to-noise ratio

Welcome to the Inscopix podcast series! Here we talk about the latest in neuroscience and neurotechnology with leaders in the field. I’m your host Dr. Jami Milton, and I’m super honored to have interviewed Dr. Kafui Dzirasa. He’s an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Neurobiology and Biomedical Engineering at the Duke University School

October brought enough neural circuit papers to scare you away from reading them all, so at least peruse our list to see which ones are your must reads. 1. Parabrachial CGRP Neurons Establish and Sustain Aversive Taste Memories by Jane Y. Chen by Carlos A. Campos, Brooke C. Jarvie, Richard D. Palmiter. Neuron. They reveal

Here are the original research articles published in September 2018 that make our must-read list from across journals. We hope this list will help guide discovery of papers relevant to the neural circuit research community. 1. Touch and tactile neuropathic pain sensitivity are set by corticospinal projections by Yuanyuan Liu, Alban Latremoliere, Xinjian Li, Zicong

What is your life purpose? If you had only 5-6 years left to live, what would you do? These are questions Vivienne Ming, PhD, theoretical neuroscientist and entrepreneur, asks in her inspirational Inscopix podcast. We’re thrilled to have captured Vivienne’s thoughts on artificial and augmented intelligence, and how her unique path and choices have shaped

There were so many interesting neuroscience papers published in August relevant to neural circuits that curation across journals was extra challenging. Here you go! 1. Calcium Transient Dynamics of Neural Ensembles in the Primary Motor Cortex of Naturally Behaving Monkeys by Takahiro Kondo, Risa Saito, Masaki Otaka, Kimika Yoshino-Saito, Akihiro Yamanaka, Tetsuo Yamamori, Akiya Watakabe,

What leads the pace of novel scientific discovery? Scientist Sydney Brenner famously said: Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order. Recently, Professor Ed Boyden from MIT tweeted Brenner’s quote, and a discussion ensued about whether or not the quote actually reflected the way science progresses, or

We’ve compiled our latest list of the neural circuit research papers published in July with relevance and interest to the Inscopix Community. They include several resource-oriented papers like simultaneous optogenetics and calcium imaging during free behavior, genetically-encoded fluorescent indicators for dopamine, and new calcium sensors, etc., all validated during in vivo behaviors. We include papers

There’s been a predominant view in neuroscience that behaviors like aggression in mice are hard-wired in the brain, especially in deep brain structures such as the hypothalamus. Through the use of Inscopix technology, Dr. David Anderson’s group at Caltech has been able to present evidence that development of aggressive or mating behavior, and the neural