Justin O'Hare

Dendrites help neuroscientists see the forest for the trees Dendritic arbors provide just the right scale to study how individual neurons reciprocally interact with their broader circuitry—and are our best bet to bridge cellular and systems neuroscience.

Dendritic arbors provide neuroscience with an ideal opportunity to study how individual neurons interact with their broader circuitry and are the field’s best bet to bridge cellular and systems neuroscience, writes @justinkohare.bsky.social.

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www.thetransmitter.org/dendrites/de...

Thanks, Aaron. The 2022 paper found branch-specific place fields in radial oblique dendrites as well, which often differed significantly from the soma's. I would agree that *especially* for voltage signals, dimensionality is a very limited metric of soma-dendrite coupling. Have to go event-based.

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Thank you, Kathleen! I'm honored to join the Klingenstein family 🙂

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Dendritic inhibition terminates plateau potentials in CA1 pyramidal neurons
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cellular and subcellular specialization enables biology-constrained deep learning Learning and memory in the brain depend on changes in the strengths of synaptic connections between neurons. While the molecular and cellular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity have been extensively st...

Nice preprint from @neurosutras.bsky.social bringing NN models of the brain more in line with its biology
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...