Activity-dependent plasticity of hippocampal place maps

Philipp Schoenenberger; Joseph O’Neill; Jozsef Csicsvari

doi:10.1038/ncomms11824

Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Activity-dependent plasticity of hippocampal place maps

Philipp Schoenenberger,
Joseph O’Neill,
Jozsef Csicsvari

Affiliations

Philipp Schoenenberger: Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Am Campus 1, A–3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
Joseph O’Neill: Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Am Campus 1, A–3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
Jozsef Csicsvari: Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Am Campus 1, A–3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11824
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

Read online

Place cells in hippocampus encode a map of space, however the role of activity in place map stability is not known. Schoenenberger and colleagues optogenetically manipulate hippocampal firing rates within place fields and show lasting changes in spatial firing patterns through two separate mechanisms.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

About the journal