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Astrocytes regulate oligodendrocyte development and myelination in the mammalian brain
Oligodendrocytes (OLs), a type of glial cell, are the main myelinating cells of the mammalian central nervous system (CNS), enabling efficient saltatory mode of nerve conduction. On the other hand, astrocytes, another glial ... -
Aβ42-mediated dendritic spine loss in an in-vitro model of Alzheimer’s disease
The results from this study establish the molecular mechanism underlying the Aβ42-mediated dendritic spine loss observed in the APP/PS1 mouse model of AD. Further, this study highlights the role of Aβ42 in altering the ... -
Characterization of Neuroprotective Reactive Astrocytes in the Aging Mammalian Brain
The brain manifests cognitive deficits in aging and becomes more vulnerable to neurodegeneration. Astrocytes play several critical roles in the brain, including synapse formation, maturation, elimination, and synaptic ... -
Computational mechanisms underlying eye-head coordination
Gaze or eye-head coordination is an ethologically and physiologically important process that directs the visual system to objects of interest. Due to its relative simplicity, it is an ideal system to study multi-effector ... -
Computational Mechanisms Underlying the Voluntary Control of Reach Movement Planning and Execution
In everyday life we make a variety of reaching movements. Most of these reaching movements have a clear objective of bringing the hand to the spatial location of the object of interest. Although we typically do not explicitly ... -
Differential Regulation of Calcium Dependent Phase Separation and Modular Assembly of Sap97/Hdlg Enriched Molecular Complexes
Recent studies over a few decades have changed the perspective of the molecular architecture of functional zones within synapses and other cell junctions. Observations in the last decade confirm Post Synaptic Density as ... -
Dynamics of Invariant Object Representations in the Monkey Inferotemporal Cortex
(2018-06-18)Vision is computationally challenging because objects in the real world can change in size, position, viewpoint etc., and therefore cast a myriad images on the retina. Viewpoint changes are particularly challenging because ... -
Effect of Stimulus Normalization and Visual Attention at multiple scales of Neural Integration
The effect of visual attention on neural signals has been extensively studied using various techniques such as macaque neurophysiology and human electro/magneto encephalogram (EEG/MEG). Depending on the technique, different ... -
Estimation of the spatial spread of brain signals at multiple scales
Spatial spread of a particular brain signal can be defined as the area of the cortical tissue around the recording electrode that contributes to the electrical activity recorded by the electrode. More specifically, ... -
Evaluation of Early Pathogenic Mechanisms of Synaptic Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease
(2017-12-07)Alzheimer’s disease is a debilitating, progressive neurodegenerative disorder in the elderly, characterized by severe loss of memory and higher cognitive functions. In the hundred years since its discovery, Alzheimer’s ... -
Factors Regulating Cerebellar Granule Neuron Progenitor Proliferation
Cerebella granule neuron progenitors (CGNPs) give rise to a homogenous group of neurons called the cerebellar granule neurons in the developing cerebellum (a hindbrain structure classically associated with fine motor ... -
Is Spatial Map Shaped by Environmental Determinants?
Humans and other animals form internal mental maps of the outer world in order to navigate. Hippocampal place cells and grid cells in MEC (medial entorhinal cortex) are the key components of this navigation system. However, ... -
Maternal Immune Activation Perturbs Gene Expression in the Embryonic Brain Leading to Autism Spectrum Disorders
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) constitutes a spectrum of developmental disorders that share common phenotypes of social and communication deficits and repetitive behaviours. ASDs have many possible underlying causes ... -
Mechanisms of Dopaminergic Neurodegeneration in Parkinson's Disease
(2018-07-18)Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a debilitating movement disorder. The cardinal symptoms of PD are bradykinesia, resting tremors and rigidity. PD is characterized by degeneration of dopaminergic neurons of A9 region, substantia ... -
Neural Correlates and Behavioral Underpinnings of Remote Memories during Systems Consolidation
Remote retrieval of declarative memories has been under investigation for a long time. After acquisition, long-term encoding of memories happens through crosstalk across multiple brain regions. Through systems consolidation, ... -
Neural Mechanisms underlying the planning of sequential saccades
Saccades are rapid eye movements that we continually make (about 2-3 times per second) to look around and scan our visual environment. Though we effortlessly execute saccadic eye movements all the time, they are not just ... -
Novel Therapeutic Targets for Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by impaired memory and other cognitive deficits. Even though the genes associated with familial AD were discovered more than three decades ... -
Optical and behavioural tools to investigate the neural correlates of learning and memory
Events in our everyday life are encoded as memories that can be consciously recollected and remembered, although our ability to retrieve the specific details associated with these events diminish with time. Such losses ... -
Parietal and prefrontal control of distinct components of attention
In this thesis, we investigate behavioural mechanisms and neural substrates of distinct components of endogenous spatial attention. Endogenous attention facilitates neural processing of the selected stimulus through one ... -
Regulation of Lateral Mobility of Amyloid Precursor Protein by an Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Gene: Picalm
Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) is implicated in several functions in neurons, but the altered processing of APP in synapses holds a key to understanding the onset of the molecular progression of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). ...