Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Functional neuronal circuitry and oscillatory dynamics in human brain organoids

  • Tal Sharf,
  • Tjitse van der Molen,
  • Stella M. K. Glasauer,
  • Elmer Guzman,
  • Alessio P. Buccino,
  • Gabriel Luna,
  • Zhuowei Cheng,
  • Morgane Audouard,
  • Kamalini G. Ranasinghe,
  • Kiwamu Kudo,
  • Srikantan S. Nagarajan,
  • Kenneth R. Tovar,
  • Linda R. Petzold,
  • Andreas Hierlemann,
  • Paul K. Hansma,
  • Kenneth S. Kosik

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32115-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Brain organoids replicate cellular organization found in the developing human brain. Here, the authors utilize microelectronics to map activity in brain organoids and assemble functional circuits that mirror complexity found in brain networks in vivo.