Centre for Neuroscience

Park, K., Kohl, M. M., Kwag, J. (2023) Memory encoding and retrieval by retrosplenial parvalbumin interneurons is impaired in Alzheimer's disease model mice. Current Biology, 34, (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.014)

Quillet, R., Gutierrez-Mecinas, M., Polgár, E., Dickie, A. C., Boyle, K. A., Watanabe, M., Todd, A. J. (2023) Synaptic circuits involving gastrin-releasing peptide receptor-expressing neurons in the dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 16, (doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2023.1294994)

Andrianova, L., Yanakieva, S., Margetts-Smith, G., Kohli, S., Brady, E. S., Aggleton, J. P., Craig, M. T. (2023) No evidence from complementary data sources of a direct glutamatergic projection from the mouse anterior cingulate area to the hippocampal formation. eLife, 12, (doi: 10.7554/eLife.77364)

Boyle, K. A., Polgár, E., Gutierrez-Mecinas, M., Dickie, A. C., Cooper, A. H., Bell, A. M., Jumolea, M. E., Casas-Benito, A., Watanabe, M., Hughes, D. I., Weir, G. A., Riddell, J. S., Todd, A. J. (2023) Neuropeptide Y-expressing dorsal horn inhibitory interneurons gate spinal pain and itch signalling. eLife, 12, (doi: 10.7554/eLife.86633)

Davis, O. C., Dickie, A. C., Mustapa, M. B., Boyle, K. A., Browne, T. J., Gradwell, M. A., Smith, K. M., Polgár, E., Bell, A. M., Kókai, É., Watanabe, M., Wildner, H., Zeilhofer, H. U., Ginty, D. D., Callister, R. J., Graham, B. A., Todd, A. J., Hughes, D. I. (2023) Calretinin-expressing islet cells are a source of pre- and post-synaptic inhibition of non-peptidergic nociceptor input to the mouse spinal cord. Scientific Reports, 13, (doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-38605-9)

Brady, E. S., Griffiths, J., Andrianova, L., Bielska, M. H., Saito, T., Saido, T. C., Randall, A. D., Tamagnini, F., Witton, J., Craig, M. T. (2023) Alterations to parvalbumin-expressing interneuron function and associated network oscillations in the hippocampal – medial prefrontal cortex circuit during natural sleep in AppNL-G-F/NL-G-F mice. Neurobiology of Disease, 182, pp. 106151. (doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2023.106151)

Openshaw, R. L., Thomson, D. M., Bristow, G. C., Mitchell, E. J., Pratt, J. A., Morris, B. J., Dawson, N. (2023) 16p11.2 deletion mice exhibit compromised fronto-temporal connectivity, GABAergic dysfunction, and enhanced attentional ability. Communications Biology, 6, (doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-04891-2)

Quillet, R., Dickie, A. C., Polgár, E., Gutierrez-Mecinas, M., Bell, A. M., Goffin, L., Watanabe, M., Todd, A. J. (2023) Characterisation of NPFF-expressing neurons in the superficial dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord. Scientific Reports, 13, (doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-32720-3)

Panniello, M., Limal, S. A.C., Kohl, M. M. (2023) Imaging somatosensory cortex in rodents. Humana

Gutierrez-Mecinas, M., Kókai, É., Polgár, E., Quillet, R., Titterton, H. F., Weir, G. A., Watanabe, M., Todd, A. J. (2023) Antibodies against the gastrin-releasing peptide precursor pro-gastrin-releasing peptide reveal its expression in the mouse spinal dorsal horn. Neuroscience, 510, pp. 60-71. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2022.12.023)

Ronzano, R., Skarlatou, S., Barriga, B. K., Bannatyne, B. A., Bhumbra, G. S., Foster, J. D., Moore, J. D., Lancelin, C., Pocratsky, A. M., Özyurt, M. G., Smith, C. C., Todd, A. J., Maxwell, D. J., Murray, A. J., Pfaff, S. L., Brownstone, R. M., Zampieri, N., Beato, M. (2023) Spinal premotor interneurons controlling antagonistic muscles are spatially intermingled. eLife, 11, (doi: 10.7554/elife.81976)

Visocky, V., Morris, B. J., Dunlop, J., Brandon, N., Sakata, S., Pratt, J. A. (2023) Site-specific inhibition of the thalamic reticular nucleus induces distinct modulations in sleep architecture. European Journal of Neuroscience, (doi: 10.1111/ejn.15908)

Polgár, E., Dickie, A. C., Gutierrez-Mecinas, M., Bell, A. M., Boyle, K. A., Quillet, R., Rashid, E. A., Clark, R. A., German, M. T., Watanabe, M., Riddell, J. S., Todd, A. J. (2023) Grpr expression defines a population of superficial dorsal horn vertical cells that have a role in both itch and pain. Pain, 164, pp. 149-170. (doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002677)

Kwon, J., Arsenis, C., Suessmilch, M., McColl, A., Cavanagh, J., Morris, B. J. (2022) Differential effects of toll-like receptor activation and differential mediation by MAP kinases of immune responses in microglial cells. Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, 42, pp. 2655-2671. (doi: 10.1007/s10571-021-01127-x)

Middleton, S. J., Perini, I., Andreas C., T., Weir, G. A., McCann, K., Barry, A. M., Marshall, A., Lee, M., Mayo, L. M., Bohic, M., Baskozos, G., Morrison, I., Löken, L. S., McIntyre, S., Nagi, S. S., Staud, R., Sehlstedt, I., Johnson, R. D., Wessberg, J., Wood, J. N., Woods, C. G., Moqrich, A., Olausson, H., Bennett, D. L. (2022) Nav1.7 is required for normal C-low threshold mechanoreceptor function in humans and mice. Brain, 145, pp. 3637-3653. (doi: 10.1093/brain/awab482)

Sanders, Z. B., Fleming, M. K., Smejka, T., Marzolla, M. C., Zich, C., Rieger, S. W., Lührs, M., Goebel, R., Sampaio-Baptista, C., Johansen-Berg, H. (2022) Self-modulation of motor cortex activity after stroke: a randomized controlled trial. Brain, 145, pp. 3391-3404. (doi: 10.1093/brain/awac239)

Warwick, C., Salsovic, J., Hachisuka, J., Smith, K. M., Sheahan, T. D., Chen, H., Ibinson, J., Koerber, H. R., Ross, S. E. (2022) Cell type-specific calcium imaging of central sensitization in mouse dorsal horn. Nature Communications, 13, (doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-32608-2)

Trendafilova, T. et al. (2022) Sodium-calcium exchanger-3 regulates pain "wind-up": from human psychophysics to spinal mechanisms. Neuron, 110, pp. 2571-2587.e13. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2022.05.017)

Craig, M. T., Witton, J. (2022) A cellular switchboard in memory circuits. Science, 377, pp. 262-263. (doi: 10.1126/science.add2681)

Gradwell, M. A., Smith, K. M., Dayas, C. V., Smith, D. W., Hughes, D. I., Callister, R. J., Graham, B. A. (2022) Altered intrinsic properties and inhibitory connectivity in aged parvalbumin-expressing dorsal horn neurons. Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 16, (doi: 10.3389/fncir.2022.834173)

Baruchin, L. J., Ghezzi, F., Kohl, M. M., Butt, S. J.B. (2022) Contribution of interneuron subtype-specific GABAergic signalling to emergent sensory processing in mouse somatosensory whisker barrel cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 32, pp. 2538-2554. (doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhab363)

Williams, J. A., Huesa, C., Windmill, J. F. C., Purcell, M., Reid, S., Coupaud, S., Riddell, J. S. (2022) Spatiotemporal responses of trabecular and cortical bone to complete spinal cord injury in skeletally mature rats. Bone Reports, 16, (doi: 10.1016/j.bonr.2022.101592)

Hughes, D. I., Todd, A. J. (2022) Visualizing synaptic connectivity using confocal and electron microscopy: neuroanatomical approaches to define spinal circuits. Humana

Willis, A., Pratt, J. A., Morris, B. J. (2022) Enzymatic degradation of cortical perineuronal nets reverses GABAergic interneuron maturation. Molecular Neurobiology, 59, pp. 2874-2893. (doi: 10.1007/s12035-022-02772-z)

El Khoueiry, C., Alba-Delgado, C., Antri, M., Gutierrez-Mecinas, M., Todd, A. J., Artola, A., Dallel, R. (2022) GABA_A and glycine receptor-mediated inhibitory synaptic transmission onto adult rat lamina IIi PKCγ-interneurons: pharmacological but not anatomical specialization. Cells, 11, (doi: 10.3390/cells11081356)

Todd, A. J. (2022) An historical perspective: the second order neuron in the pain pathway. Frontiers in Pain Research, 3, (doi: 10.3389/fpain.2022.845211)

Barki, N., Bolognini, D., Börjesson, U., Jenkins, L., Riddell, J., Hughes, D. I., Ulven, T., Hudson, B. D., Rexen Ulven, E., Dekker, N., Tobin, A. B., Milligan, G. (2022) Chemogenetics defines the roles of short chain fatty acid receptors within the gut-brain axis. eLife, 11, (doi: 10.7554/eLife.73777)

Gradwell, M. A., Boyle, K. A., Browne, T. J., Bell, A. M., Leonardo, J., Peralta Reyes, F. S., Dickie, A. C., Smith, K. M., Callister, R. J., Dayas, C. V., Hughes, D. I., Graham, B. A. (2022) Diversity of inhibitory and excitatory parvalbumin interneuron circuits in the dorsal horn. Pain, 163, pp. e432-e452. (doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002422)

Openshaw, R. L., Pratt, J. A., Morris, B. J. (2022) The schizophrenia risk gene Map2k7 regulates responding in a novel contingency-shifting rodent touchscreen gambling task. Disease Models and Mechanisms, 15, (doi: 10.1242/dmm.049310)

Akam, T., Lustig, A., Rowland, J. M., Kapanaiah, S. K.T., Esteve-Agraz, J., Panniello, M., Márquez, C., Kohl, M. M., Kätzel, D., Costa, R. M., Walton, M. E. (2022) Open-source, Python-based, hardware and software for controlling behavioural neuroscience experiments. eLife, 11, (doi: 10.7554/eLife.67846)

Kókai, É., Alsulaimain, W. A.A., Dickie, A. C., Bell, A. M., Goffin, L., Watanabe, M., Gutierrez-Mecinas, M., Todd, A. J. (2022) Characterisation of deep dorsal horn projection neurons in the spinal cord of the Phox2a::Cre mouse line. Molecular Pain, 18, pp. 17448069221119614. (doi: 10.1177/17448069221119614)

Kwon, J., Suessmilch, M., McColl, A., Cavanagh, J., Morris, B. J. (2021) Distinct trans-placental effects of maternal immune activation by TLR3 and TLR7 agonists: implications for schizophrenia risk. Scientific Reports, 11, (doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-03216-9)

Lazari, A., Salvan, P., Cottaar, M., Papp, D., Jens van der Werf, O., Johnstone, A., Sanders, Z.-B., Sampaio-Baptista, C., Eichert, N., Miyamoto, K., Winkler, A., Callaghan, M. F., Nichols, T. E., Stagg, C. J., Rushworth, M. F.S., Verhagen, L., Johansen-Berg, H. (2021) Reassessing associations between white matter and behaviour with multimodal microstructural imaging. Cortex, 145, pp. 187-200. (doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.08.017)

Xiao, M.-F., Roh, S.-E., Zhou, J., Chien, C.-C., Lucey, B. P., Craig, M. T., Hayes, L. N., Coughlin, J. M., Leweke, F. M., Jia, M., Xu, D., Zhou, W., Talbot Jr, C. C., Arnold, D. B., Staley, M., Jiang, C., Reti, I. M., Sawa, A., Pelkey, K. A., McBain, C. J., Savonenko, A., Worley, P. F. (2021) A biomarker-authenticated model of schizophrenia implicating NPTX2 loss of function. Science Advances, 7, (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abf6935)

Sampaio-Baptista, C., Neyedli, H. F., Sanders, Z.-B., Biosi, K., Havard, D., Huang, Y., Andersson, J. L.R., Lühr, M., Goebel, R., Johansen-Berg, H. (2021) fMRI neurofeedback in the motor system elicits bidirectional changes in activity and in white matter structure in the adult human brain. Cell Reports, 37, (doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109890)

Roesl, C., Evans, E. R., Dissanayake, K. N., Boczonadi, V., Jones, R. A., Jordan, G., Ledahawsky, L., Allen, G. C.C., Scott, M., Thomson, A., Wishart, T. M., Hughes, D. I., Mead, R. J., Shone, C. C., Slater, C. R., Gillingwater, T. H., Skehel, P. A., Ribchester, R. R. (2021) Confocal endomicroscopy of neuromuscular junctions stained with physiologically inert protein fragments of tetanus toxin. Biomolecules, 11, (doi: 10.3390/biom11101499)

Thomson, D. M., Mitchell, E. J., Openshaw, R. L., Pratt, J. A., Morris, B. J. (2021) Mice lacking melatonin MT2 receptors exhibit attentional deficits, anxiety and enhanced social interaction. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 35, pp. 1265-1276. (doi: 10.1177/02698811211032439)

Alsulaiman, W. A.A., Quillet, R., Bell, A. M., Dickie, A. C., Polgár, E., Boyle, K. A., Watanabe, M., Roome, R. B., Kania, A., Todd, A., Gutierrez-Mecinas, M. (2021) Characterisation of lamina I anterolateral system neurons that express Cre in a Phox2a-Cre mouse line. Scientific Reports, 11, (doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-97105-w)

Chisholm, K. I., Lo Re, L., Polgár, E., Gutierrez-Mecinas, M., Todd, A. J., McMahon, S. B. (2021) Encoding of cutaneous stimuli by lamina I projection neurons. Pain, 162, pp. 2405-2417. (doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002226)

Prince, L. Y., Tran, M. M., Grey, D., Saad, L., Chasiotis, H., Kwag, J., Kohl, M. M., Richards, B. A. (2021) Neocortical inhibitory interneuron subtypes are differentially attuned to synchrony- and rate-coded information. Communications Biology, 4, (doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-02437-y)

Chrysostomidou, L., Cooper, A. H., Weir, G. A. (2021) Cellular models of pain: new technologies and their potential to progress preclinical research. Neurobiology of Pain, 10, (doi: 10.1016/j.ynpai.2021.100063)

Warwick, C., Cassidy, C., Hachisuka, J., Wright, M. C., Baumbauer, K. M., Adelman, P. C., Lee, K. H., Smith, K. M., Sheahan, T. D., Ross, S. E., Koerber, H. R. (2021) MrgprdCre lineage neurons mediate optogenetic allodynia through an emergent polysynaptic circuit. Pain, 162, pp. 2120-2131. (doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002227)

Browne, T. J., Smith, K. M., Gradwell, M. A., Iredale, J. A., Dayas, C. V., Callister, R. J., Hughes, D. I., Graham, B. A. (2021) Spinoparabrachial projection neurons form distinct classes in the mouse dorsal horn. Pain, 162, pp. 1977-1994. (doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002194)

Nothnagel, N. D., Symon, A., Morgan, A. T., Huber, R., Riddell, J., Goense, J. (2021) VASO-fMRI with Nordic-PCA for laminar sensory testing at 7 Tesla.

Willis, A., Pratt, J. A., Morris, B. J. (2021) BDNF and JNK signalling modulate cortical interneuron and perineuronal net development: implications for schizophrenia-linked 16p11.2 duplication syndrome. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 47, pp. 812-826. (doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbaa139)

Nguyen, E., Lim, G., Ding, H., Hachisuka, J., Ko, M.-C., Ross, S. E. (2021) Morphine acts on spinal dynorphin neurons to cause itch through disinhibition. Science Translational Medicine, 13, (doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abc3774)

Barron, H. C., Mars, R. B., Dupret, D., Lerch, J., Sampaio-Baptista, C. (2021) Cross-species neuroscience: closing the explanatory gap. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376, (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0633)

Browne, T. J., Hughes, D. I., Dayas, C. V., Callister, R. J., Graham, B. A. (2020) Projection neuron axon collaterals in the dorsal horn: placing a new player in spinal cord pain processing. Frontiers in Physiology, 11, (doi: 10.3389/fphys.2020.560802)

Polgár, E., Bell, A. M., Gutierrez-Mecinas, M., Dickie, A. C., Akar, O., Costreie, M., Watanabe, M., Todd, A. J. (2020) Substance P-expressing neurons in the superficial dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord: insights into their functions and their roles in synaptic circuits. Neuroscience, 450, pp. 113-125. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.06.038)

Graham, B. A., Hughes, D. I. (2020) Defining populations of dorsal horn interneurons. Pain, 161, pp. 2434-2436. (doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002067)

Choi, S., Hachisuka, J., Brett, M. A., Magee, A. R., Omori, Y., Iqbal, N.-u.-A., Zhang, D., DeLisle, M. M., Wolfson, R. L., Bai, L., Santiago, C., Gong, S., Goulding, M., Heintz, N., Koerber, H. R., Ross, S. E., Ginty, D. D. (2020) Parallel ascending spinal pathways for affective touch and pain. Nature, 587, pp. 258-263. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2860-1)

Bell, A. M., Gutierrez-Mecinas, M., Stevenson, A., Casas-Benito, A., Wildner, H., West, S. J., Watanabe, M., Todd, A. J. (2020) Expression of green fluorescent protein defines a specific population of lamina II excitatory interneurons in the GRP::eGFP mouse. Scientific Reports, 10, (doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-69711-7)

Mitchell, E. J., Thomson, D. M., Openshaw, R. L., Bristow, G. C., Dawson, N., Pratt, J. A., Morris, B. (2020) Drug-responsive autism phenotypes in the 16p11.2 deletion mouse model: a central role for gene-environment interactions. Scientific Reports, 10, (doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-69130-8)

Hosseinzadeh, S., Lindsay, S. L., Gallagher, A. G., Wellings, D. A., Riehle, M. O., Riddell, J. S., Barnett, S. C. (2020) A novel poly-ε-lysine based implant, Proliferate®, for promotion of CNS repair following spinal cord injury. Biomaterials Science, 8, pp. 3611-3627. (doi: 10.1039/D0BM00097C)

Tran, M., Braz, J. M., Hamel, K., Kuhn, J., Todd, A. J., Basbaum, A. I. (2020) Ablation of spinal cord estrogen receptor α-expressing interneurons reduces chemically induced modalities of pain and itch. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 528, pp. 1629-1643. (doi: 10.1002/cne.24847)

Hughes, D. I., Todd, A. (2020) Central nervous system targets: inhibitory interneurons in the spinal cord. Neurotherapeutics, 17, pp. 874-885. (doi: 10.1007/s13311-020-00936-0)

Baskozos, G., Sandy-Hindmarch, O., Clark, A. J., Windsor, K., Karlsson, P., Weir, G. A., McDermott, L. A., Burchall, J., Wiberg, A., Furniss, D., Bennett, D. L.H., Schmid, A. B. (2020) Molecular and cellular correlates of human nerve regeneration: ADCYAP1/PACAP enhance nerve outgrowth. Brain, 143, pp. 2009-2026. (doi: 10.1093/brain/awaa163)

Almarzooq, S., Kwon, J., Willis, A., Craig, J., Morris, B. J. (2020) Novel alternatively-spliced exons of the VRK2 gene in mouse brain and microglial cells. Molecular Biology Reports, 47, pp. 5127-5136. (doi: 10.1007/s11033-020-05584-3)

Madden, J.F., Davis, O.C., Boyle, K.A., Iredale, J.A., Browne, T.J., Callister, R.J., Smith, D.W., Jobling, P., Hughes, D.I., Graham, B.A. (2020) Functional and molecular analysis of proprioceptive sensory neuron excitability in mice. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 13, (doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2020.00036)

Jang, H. J., Chung, H., Rowland, J. M., Richards, B. A., Kohl, M. M., Kwag, J. (2020) Distinct roles of parvalbumin and somatostatin interneurons in gating the synchronization of spike-times in the neocortex. Science Advances, 6, (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aay5333)

Bristow, G. C., Thomson, D. M., Openshaw, R. L., Mitchell, E. J., Pratt, J. A., Dawson, N., Morris, B. J. (2020) 16p11 duplication disrupts hippocampal-orbitofrontal-amygdala connectivity, revealing a neural circuit endophenotype for schizophrenia. Cell Reports, 31, (doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107536)

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Chung, H., Park, K., Jang, H. J., Kohl, M. M., Kwag, J. (2020) Dissociation of somatostatin and parvalbumin interneurons circuit dysfunctions underlying hippocampal theta and gamma oscillations impaired by amyloid β oligomers in vivo. Brain Structure and Function, 225, pp. 935-954. (doi: 10.1007/s00429-020-02044-3)

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Openshaw, R., Thomson, D. M., Thompson, R., Penninger, J. M., Pratt, J. A., Morris, B. J., Dawson, N. (2020) Map2k7 haploinsufficiency induces brain imaging endophenotypes and behavioral phenotypes relevant to schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 46, pp. 211-223. (doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbz044)

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