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Circuit organization of the rodent medial prefrontal cortex The prefrontal cortex (PFC) orchestrates higher brain function and becomes disrupted in many mental health disorders. The rodent medial PFC (mPFC) possesses an enormous variety of projection neurons a...

This review has turned into my go-to paper for rodent PFC circuit. Useful in the lab and for teaching. Thanks @panastasiades.bsky.social and @carterlab.bsky.social for writing this. www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

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Conjoint generalized and trajectory-specific coding of task structure by prefrontal neurons Neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) show spatially modulated activities. Muysers et al. show that mPFC neurons fall into distinct functional classes that differ in terms of their spatial tu...

Literature highlight, this week from our consortium! Muyers et al. used an olfaction-guided spatial memory task in mice to show that prefrontal neurons encode both generalized and trajectory-specific aspects of task structure.

www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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choice

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01839-5

Literature highlight of the week: Elston and Wallis used a state-dependent choice task in monkeys to show that the hippocampus relays context-based information via theta waves to the orbitofrontal cortex, which informs valuation and...

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elegans.
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)01378-3?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867424013783%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Literature Highlight of the Week:
Almoril-Porras and Calvo et al. demonstrate the necessity of gap junctions in the temperature gradient migration strategies of C....

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Mugan et al. investigate the effects of environmental complexity on ensemble firing and local field potential in the dmPFC, hippocampus, and dlstriatum of freely moving rats during a foraging task.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627324006986?via%3Dihub#bib26

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Qian et al. explore the dynamic interplay between relevant information and distractor representations in the lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) and prearcuate cortex (PAC) of macaque monkeys.
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2024/12/08/JNEUROSCI.1770-24.2024.long

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Literature highlight of the week: Chen et al. explore thalamic representation and thalamocortical interactions that contribute to hierarchical cognitive control in humans

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002937

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Literature highlight of the week: Xu et al. show how robustness and sensitivity coexist in neural networks by analyzing neural dynamics in the monkey prefrontal cortex and using comptational approaches

https://www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.1073/pnas.240948712

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54257-3

Literature highlight of the week: Van de Maele et al. propose a hierarchical active inference model clarifying how the hippocampal-medial prefrontal cortex circuit solves spatial interaction tasks by bridging physical and task-space maps....

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change
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08180-8

Literature highlight of the week: Lam et al. used a decision task with rule reversals in tree shrews and found that relevant thalamic neurons drive prefrontal reconfiguration following a reversal by attributing errors to an environmental...

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tasks

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08145-x

Literature highlight of the week: El-Gaby et al. identify an algorithm that relates medial frontal cortex role in schema formation and sequence memory, by internally organizing mnemonic activity according to an abstract structure shared by different...

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cortex
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627324006986#sec2

Literature highlight of the week: Mugan et al. show that complex naturalistic environments modulate decision-making strategies, neural representations, and interactions among the hippocampus, dorsolateral striatum, and dorsomedial prefrontal...

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