Papers by subject


Gamma oscillations

Cho et al., Long-range inhibition synchronizes and updates prefrontal task activity, Nature, April 26, 2023.

Sohal, Transforming Discoveries About Cortical Microcircuits and Gamma Oscillations Into New Treatments for Cognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia, American Journal of Psychiatry, Apr;179(4):267-276.

Cho et al., Cross-hemispheric gamma synchrony between parvalbumin interneurons supports behavioral adaptation during rule shift learning. Nature Neuroscience, Jul;23(7):892-902.

Athilingam et al., Serotonin enhances excitability and gamma frequency temporal integration in mouse prefrontal fast-spiking interneurons. Elife. 2017 Dec 5;6.

Sohal, How Close Are We to Understanding What (if Anything) γ Oscillations Do in Cortical Circuits?. J Neurosci. 2016 Oct 12;36(41):10489-10495.

Cho et al., Gamma rhythms link prefrontal interneuron dysfunction with cognitive inflexibility in Dlx5/6(+/-) mice. Neuron. 2015 Mar 18;85(6):1332-43.

Sohal, Insights into cortical oscillations arising from optogenetic studies. Biol Psychiatry. 2012 Jun 15;71(12):1039-45.


Autism - Excitatory Circuits

Frost et al., Dynamic patterns of correlated activity in the prefrontal cortex encode information about social behavior. PLoS Biology, May 3, 2021.

Fazel Darbandi et al., Enhancing WNT Signaling Restores Cortical Neuronal Spine Maturation and Synaptogenesis in Tbr1 Mutants. Cell Rep. 2020 Apr 14;31(2):107495

Fazel Darbandi et al., Neonatal Tbr1 Dosage Controls Cortical Layer 6 Connectivity. Neuron. 2018 Nov 21;100(4):831-845.

Brumback, Ellwood, and Kjaerby et al., Identifying specific prefrontal neurons that contribute to autism-associated abnormalities in physiology and social behavior. Mol Psychiatry. 2018 Oct;23(10):2078-2089.

Martin et al., DIXDC1 contributes to psychiatric susceptibility by regulating dendritic spine and glutamatergic synapse density via GSK3 and Wnt/β-catenin signaling. Mol Psychiatry. 2018 Feb;23(2):467-475.

Luongo et al., Putative Microcircuit-Level Substrates for Attention Are Disrupted in Mouse Models of Autism. Biol Psychiatry. 2016 Apr 15;79(8):667-75.


Autism - Inhibitory Circuits

Cunniff et al., Altered hippocampal-prefrontal communication during anxiety-related avoidance in mice deficient for the autism-associated gene Pogz. eLife, Nov 6;9:e54835.

Malik et al., Tsc1 represses parvalbumin expression and fast-spiking properties in somatostatin lineage cortical interneurons. Nat Commun. 2019 Nov 1;10(1):4994.

Sohal and Rubenstein, Excitation-inhibition balance as a framework for investigating mechanisms in neuropsychiatric disorders. Mol Psychiatry. 2019 Sep;24(9):1248-1257.

Southwell et al., Interneuron Transplantation Rescues Social Behavior Deficits without Restoring Wild-Type Physiology in a Mouse Model of Autism with Excessive Synaptic Inhibition. J Neurosci. 2020 Mar 11;40(11):2215-2227.

Meda et al., Microcircuit Mechanisms through which Mediodorsal Thalamic Input to Anterior Cingulate Cortex Exacerbates Pain-Related Aversion. Neuron. 2019 Jun 5;102(5):944-959.

Kirkby et al., An Amygdala-Hippocampus Subnetwork that Encodes Variation in Human Mood. Cell. 2018 Nov 29;175(6):1688-1700.

Kjaerby et al., Serotonin 1B Receptors Regulate Prefrontal Function by Gating Callosal and Hippocampal Inputs. Cell Rep. 2016 Dec 13;17(11):2882-2890.


Thalamo-prefrontal circuits

Meda et al., Microcircuit Mechanisms through which Mediodorsal Thalamic Input to Anterior Cingulate Cortex Exacerbates Pain-Related Aversion. Neuron. 2019 Jun 5;102(5):944-959.

Marton et al., Roles of Prefrontal Cortex and Mediodorsal Thalamus in Task Engagement and Behavioral Flexibility. J Neurosci. 2018 Mar 7;38(10):2569-2578.


Dopamine

Robinson and Sohal, Dopamine D2 Receptors Modulate Pyramidal Neurons in Mouse Medial Prefrontal Cortex through a Stimulatory G-Protein Pathway. J Neurosci. 2017 Oct 18;37(42):10063-10073.

Ellwood, Patel and Wadia et al. Tonic or Phasic Stimulation of Dopaminergic Projections to Prefrontal Cortex Causes Mice to Maintain or Deviate from Previously Learned Behavioral Strategies. J Neurosci. 2017 Aug 30;37(35):8315-8329.

Gee et al., Synaptic activity unmasks dopamine D2 receptor modulation of a specific class of layer V pyramidal neurons in prefrontal cortex. J Neurosci. 2012 Apr 4;32(14):4959-71.


Seizures

Khoshkhoo et al. Dynamic, Cell-Type-Specific Roles for GABAergic Interneurons in a Mouse Model of Optogenetically Inducible Seizures. Neuron. 2017 Jan 18;93(2):291-298.


Surprises about 'interneurons'

Malik et al., Top-down control of hippocampal signal-to-noise by prefrontal long-range inhibition, Cell, April 28.

Sohal, Transforming Discoveries About Cortical Microcircuits and Gamma Oscillations Into New Treatments for Cognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia, American Journal of Psychiatry, April.

Malik et al., Tsc1 represses parvalbumin expression and fast-spiking properties in somatostatin lineage cortical interneurons. Nat Commun. 2019 Nov 1;10(1):4994.

Lee et al., A class of GABAergic neurons in the prefrontal cortex sends long-range projections to the nucleus accumbens and elicits acute avoidance behavior. J Neurosci. 2014 Aug 27;34(35):11519-25.

Lee, Gee et al., Pyramidal neurons in prefrontal cortex receive subtype-specific forms of excitation and inhibition. Neuron. 2014 Jan 8;81(1):61-8.


Network analysis

Frost et al., Dynamic patterns of correlated activity in the prefrontal cortex encode information about social behavior. PLoS Biology, May 3, 2021.

Cunniff et al., Altered hippocampal-prefrontal communication during anxiety-related avoidance in mice deficient for the autism-associated gene Pogz. eLife, Nov 6;9:e54835.

Kirkby et al., An Amygdala-Hippocampus Subnetwork that Encodes Variation in Human Mood. Cell. 2018 Nov 29;175(6):1688-1700.

Luongo et al., Correlations between prefrontal neurons form a small-world network that optimizes the generation of multineuron sequences of activity. J Neurophysiol. 2016 May 1;115(5):2359-75.