The Wiring of Developing Sensory Circuits—From Patterned Spontaneous Activity to Synaptic Plasticity Mechanisms

Retinal Wave Patterns Are Governed by Mutual Excitation among Starburst Amacrine Cells and Drive the Refinement and Maintenance of Visual Circuits

(2016) Hong-Ping Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

NMDA Receptors Enhance Spontaneous Activity and Promote Neuronal Survival in the Developing Cochlea

(2016) YingXin Zhang-Hooks et al.   NEURON

Spontaneous Activity of Cochlear Hair Cells Triggered by Fluid Secretion Mechanism in Adjacent Support Cells

(2015) Han Chin Wang et al.   CELL

Spatial pattern of spontaneous retinal waves instructs retinotopic map refinement more than activity frequency

(2015) Hong-Ping Xu et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Increasing Spontaneous Retinal Activity before Eye Opening Accelerates the Development of Geniculate Receptive Fields

(2015) Z. W. Davis et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Laminar differences in the orientation selectivity of geniculate afferents in mouse primary visual cortex

(2015) Satoru Kondo et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Neuronal activity is not required for the initial formation and maturation of visual selectivity

(2015) Kenta M Hagihara et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Spontaneous Activity Drives Local Synaptic Plasticity In Vivo

(2015) Johan Winnubst et al.   NEURON

GABA depolarizes immature neurons and inhibits network activity in the neonatal neocortex in vivo

(2015) Knut Kirmse et al.   Nature Communications

Spontaneous activity in the developing auditory system

(2014) Han Chin Wang et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Synapse elimination and learning rules co-regulated by MHC class I H2-Db

(2014) Hanmi Lee et al.   NATURE

Calcium transient prevalence across the dendritic arbour predicts place field properties

(2014) Mark E. J. Sheffield et al.   NATURE

Eye-specific retinogeniculate segregation proceeds normally following disruption of patterned spontaneous retinal activity

(2014) Colenso M Speer et al.   Neural Development

The Precise Temporal Pattern of Prehearing Spontaneous Activity Is Necessary for Tonotopic Map Refinement

(2014) Amanda Clause et al.   NEURON

Visual Circuit Development Requires Patterned Activity Mediated by Retinal Acetylcholine Receptors

(2014) Timothy J. Burbridge et al.   NEURON

Gap Junctions in Developing Thalamic and Neocortical Neuronal Networks

(2013) D. Niculescu et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Gap junctions

(2013) Kazumichi Shimizu et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Role of emergent neural activity in visual map development

(2013) James B Ackman et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Uncoupling of EphA/ephrinA Signaling and Spontaneous Activity in Neural Circuit Wiring

(2013) I. Benjumeda et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The emergence of functional microcircuits in visual cortex

(2013) Ho Ko et al.   NATURE

Circuit level defects in the developing neocortex of Fragile X mice

(2013) J Tiago Gonçalves et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

A Role for Correlated Spontaneous Activity in the Assembly of Neural Circuits

(2013) Lowry A. Kirkby et al.   NEURON

Early gamma oscillations

(2013) R. Khazipov et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Spontaneous Network Activity and Synaptic Development

(2013) Daniel Kerschensteiner   NEUROSCIENTIST

Peripheral and Central Inputs Shape Network Dynamics in the Developing Visual Cortex In Vivo

(2012) Friederike Siegel et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Synaptic Refinement of an Inhibitory Topographic Map in the Auditory Brainstem Requires Functional CaV1.3 Calcium Channels

(2012) J. J. Hirtz et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Clonally related visual cortical neurons show similar stimulus feature selectivity

(2012) Ye Li et al.   NATURE

Preferential electrical coupling regulates neocortical lineage-dependent microcircuit assembly

(2012) Yong-Chun Yu et al.   NATURE

Nonlinear dendritic processing determines angular tuning of barrel cortex neurons in vivo

(2012) Maria Lavzin et al.   NATURE

Retinal waves coordinate patterned activity throughout the developing visual system

(2012) James B. Ackman et al.   NATURE

Similarity of Visual Selectivity among Clonally Related Neurons in Visual Cortex

(2012) Gen Ohtsuki et al.   NEURON

Synaptic clustering during development and learning: the why, when, and how

(2012) Johan Winnubst et al.   Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

Visual map development depends on the temporal pattern of binocular activity in mice

(2011) Jiayi Zhang et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

An Instructive Role for Patterned Spontaneous Retinal Activity in Mouse Visual Map Development

(2011) Hong-ping Xu et al.   NEURON

Development of Direction Selectivity in Mouse Cortical Neurons

(2011) Nathalie L. Rochefort et al.   NEURON

Activity-Dependent Clustering of Functional Synaptic Inputs on Developing Hippocampal Dendrites

(2011) Thomas Kleindienst et al.   NEURON

Development of auditory cortical synaptic receptive fields

(2011) Robert C. Froemke et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

The single dendritic branch as a fundamental functional unit in the nervous system

(2010) Tiago Branco et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Development of asymmetric inhibition underlying direction selectivity in the retina

(2010) Wei Wei et al.   NATURE

Calcium action potentials in hair cells pattern auditory neuron activity before hearing onset

(2010) Nicolas X Tritsch et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

A Conserved Switch in Sensory Processing Prepares Developing Neocortex for Vision

(2010) Matthew T. Colonnese et al.   NEURON

LTD and LTP at the Developing Retinogeniculate Synapse

(2009) Jokūbas Žiburkus et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Direction-Specific Disruption of Subcortical Visual Behavior and Receptive Fields in Mice Lacking the  2 Subunit of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor

(2009) L. Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Early Postnatal Development of Spontaneous and Acoustically Evoked Discharge Activity of Principal Cells of the Medial Nucleus of the Trapezoid Body: An In Vivo Study in Mice

(2009) M. Sonntag et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Three Patterns of Oscillatory Activity Differentially Synchronize Developing Neocortical Networks In Vivo

(2009) J.-W. Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Internally Mediated Developmental Desynchronization of Neocortical Network Activity

(2009) P. Golshani et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Early NMDA receptor-driven waves of activity in the developing neocortex: physiological or pathological network oscillations?

(2009) Camille Allene et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON

Specific synapses develop preferentially among sister excitatory neurons in the neocortex

(2009) Yong-Chun Yu et al.   NATURE

Tonotopic reorganization of developing auditory brainstem circuits

(2009) Karl Kandler et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Mechanisms underlying spontaneous patterned activity in developing neural circuits

(2009) Aaron G. Blankenship et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Sparsification of neuronal activity in the visual cortex at eye-opening

(2009) N. L. Rochefort et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Synaptic clustering by dendritic signalling mechanisms

(2008) Matthew E Larkum et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Sequential Generation of Two Distinct Synapse-Driven Network Patterns in Developing Neocortex

(2008) C. Allene et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE