The striatum: where skills and habits meet

AM Graybiel, ST Grafton - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2015 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
After more than a century of work concentrating on the motor functions of the basal ganglia,
new ideas have emerged, suggesting that the basal ganglia also have major functions in …

[HTML][HTML] Striatal synaptic adaptations in Parkinson's disease

W Shen, S Zhai, DJ Surmeier - Neurobiology of disease, 2022 - Elsevier
The striatum is densely innervated by mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons that modulate
acquisition and vigor of goal-directed actions and habits. This innervation is progressively …

[HTML][HTML] Dopamine is required for the neural representation and control of movement vigor

B Panigrahi, KA Martin, Y Li, AR Graves, A Vollmer… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Progressive depletion of midbrain dopamine neurons (PDD) is associated with deficits in the
initiation, speed, and fluidity of voluntary movement. Models of basal ganglia function focus …

Striatal synapses, circuits, and Parkinson's disease

S Zhai, A Tanimura, SM Graves, W Shen… - Current opinion in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Homeostatic plasticity plays an important role in mitigating striatal
pathophysiology in the early stages of PD.•Aberrant dopamine-dependent synaptic plasticity …

Dopaminergic modulation of striatal function and Parkinson's disease

S Zhai, W Shen, SM Graves, DJ Surmeier - Journal of Neural Transmission, 2019 - Springer
The striatum is richly innervated by mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons that modulate a
diverse array of cellular and synaptic functions that control goal-directed actions and habits …

Inversely active striatal projection neurons and interneurons selectively delimit useful behavioral sequences

N Martiros, AA Burgess, AM Graybiel - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Understanding neural representations of behavioral routines is critical for understanding
complex behavior in health and disease. We demonstrate here that accentuated activity of …

Pallidostriatal projections promote β oscillations in a dopamine-depleted biophysical network model

VL Corbit, TC Whalen, KT Zitelli, SY Crilly… - Journal of …, 2016 - Soc Neuroscience
In the basal ganglia, focused rhythmicity is an important feature of network activity at certain
stages of motor processing. In disease, however, the basal ganglia develop amplified …

The origin of abnormal beta oscillations in the parkinsonian corticobasal ganglia circuits

A Asadi, M Madadi Asl, AH Vahabie… - Parkinson's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative brain disorder associated with motor and
nonmotor symptoms. Exaggerated beta band (15–30 Hz) neuronal oscillations are widely …

Scalable, flexible carbon fiber electrode thread arrays for three-dimensional probing of neurochemical activity in deep brain structures of rodents

M Xia, BN Agca, T Yoshida, J Choi, U Amjad… - Biosensors and …, 2023 - Elsevier
We developed a flexible “electrode-thread” array for recording dopamine neurochemicals
from a lateral distribution of subcortical targets (up to 16) transverse to the axis of insertion …

Striatal cholinergic interneurons and cortico‐striatal synaptic plasticity in health and disease

M Deffains, H Bergman - Movement Disorders, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Basal ganglia disorders such as Parkinson's disease, dystonia, and Huntington's disease
are characterized by a dysregulation of the basal ganglia neuromodulators (dopamine …