Tag Archives: Data analysis

Four interesting papers on astrocyte physiology

A review of four interesting recent papers on astrocyte neuroscience: (1) Norepinephrine Signals Through Astrocytes To Modulate Synapses (2) A spatial threshold for calcium surge (3) Network-level encoding of local neurotransmitters in cortical astrocytes, and (4) Continue reading

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There is no recipe for discoveries

There is no recipe for discoveries, and there is no cookbook on how to publish a paper. But at least there are typical events and routes that are often encountered. Here, I’d like to share the trajectory of a study … Continue reading

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Why your two-photon images are noisier than you expect

A gallery of calcium imaging recordings of neurons and astrocytes with single noisy frames on the left and averaged beautiful noise-free images on the right side. Continue reading

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Three recent interesting papers on computational neuroscience

Three papers:
1. The Neuron as a Direct Data-Driven Controller
2. A learning algorithm beyond backpropagation
3. Continuous vs. discrete representations in a recurrent network Continue reading

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Useful pieces from Twitter

Twitter used to be (and still is to some extent) a source of useful information for neuroscientists about technical details, clarifications of research findings and open discussions that cannot be obtained so easily otherwise. Here is a list of some … Continue reading

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Two random but interesting papers on neurophysiology with behavior

Bagur, Bourg et al. (2022) from the Bathellier Lab in Paris make the interesting finding that the auditory code is represented as temporal sequences of neuronal activity in early auditory processing stages and as spatial patterns in auditory cortex. I … Continue reading

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Interesting papers on behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity (theory)

Behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity (BTSP) is a form of single-shot learning observed in hippocampal place cells in mice (Bittner et al., 2015, 2017). This finding is both interesting and inspiring for computational neuroscience for several reasons. In the first place, … Continue reading

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Interesting papers on behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity (experiments)

Behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity (BTSP) is a form of single-shot learning observed in hippocampal place cells in mice (Bittner et al., 2015, 2017). The idea is that post-synaptic activations (“eligibility traces”) are potentiated by a dendritic plateau potential/burst (“instructive signal”) … Continue reading

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Interesting papers on recent neuroscience methods

Find below three interesting methods papers relevant for neuroscience. All three of them are, in my opinion, worth a quick read. Acoustic cameras to localize ultrasound vocalization of mice Sterling et al. (2023) from the lab of Bernhard Englitz addressed … Continue reading

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Interesting papers on online motion correction for calcium imaging

In a living animal, the brain is moving up and down in the skull. This brain motion can be due to breathing, heartbeat, tongue movements, but also due to changes of posture or running. For each brain region and posture, … Continue reading

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