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Adv Sci (Weinh) ; : e2308014, 2024 Apr 10.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38600655

RESUMEN

Epidermal electrophysiology is a non-invasive method used in research and clinical practices to study the electrical activity of the brain, heart, nerves, and muscles. However, electrode/tissue interlayer materials such as ionically conducting pastes can negatively affect recordings by introducing lateral electrode-to-electrode ionic crosstalk and reducing spatial resolution. To overcome this issue, biocompatible, anisotropic-conducting interlayer composites (ACI) that establish an electrically anisotropic interface with the skin are developed, enabling the application of dense cutaneous sensor arrays. High-density, conformable electrodes are also microfabricated that adhere to the ACI and follow the curvilinear surface of the skin. The results show that ACI significantly enhances the spatial resolution of epidermal electromyography (EMG) recording compared to conductive paste, permitting the acquisition of single muscle action potentials with distinct spatial profiles. The high-density EMG in developing mice, non-human primates, and humans is validated. Overall, high spatial-resolution epidermal electrophysiology enabled by ACI has the potential to advance clinical diagnostics of motor system disorders and enhance data quality for human-computer interface applications.

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Nat Protoc ; 18(10): 2927-2953, 2023 10.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37697108

RESUMEN

Neuropixels are silicon-based electrophysiology-recording probes with high channel count and recording-site density. These probes offer a turnkey platform for measuring neural activity with single-cell resolution and at a scale that is beyond the capabilities of current clinically approved devices. Our team demonstrated the first-in-human use of these probes during resection surgery for epilepsy or tumors and deep brain stimulation electrode placement in patients with Parkinson's disease. Here, we provide a better understanding of the capabilities and challenges of using Neuropixels as a research tool to study human neurophysiology, with the hope that this information may inform future efforts toward regulatory approval of Neuropixels probes as research devices. In perioperative procedures, the major concerns are the initial sterility of the device, maintaining a sterile field during surgery, having multiple referencing and grounding schemes available to de-noise recordings (if necessary), protecting the silicon probe from accidental contact before insertion and obtaining high-quality action potential and local field potential recordings. The research team ensures that the device is fully operational while coordinating with the surgical team to remove sources of electrical noise that could otherwise substantially affect the signals recorded by the sensitive hardware. Prior preparation using the equipment and training in human clinical research and working in operating rooms maximize effective communication within and between the teams, ensuring high recording quality and minimizing the time added to the surgery. The perioperative procedure requires ~4 h, and the entire protocol requires multiple weeks.


Asunto(s)
Quirófanos , Silicio , Humanos , Electrodos , Neurofisiología , Potenciales de Acción/fisiología , Electrodos Implantados
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Neuron ; 111(16): 2601-2613.e5, 2023 08 16.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37352857

RESUMEN

The brain makes decisions by accumulating evidence until there is enough to stop and choose. Neural mechanisms of evidence accumulation are established in association cortex, but the site and mechanism of termination are unknown. Here, we show that the superior colliculus (SC) plays a causal role in terminating decisions, and we provide evidence for a mechanism by which this occurs. We recorded simultaneously from neurons in the lateral intraparietal area (LIP) and SC while monkeys made perceptual decisions. Despite similar trial-averaged activity, we found distinct single-trial dynamics in the two areas: LIP displayed drift-diffusion dynamics and SC displayed bursting dynamics. We hypothesized that the bursts manifest a threshold mechanism applied to signals represented in LIP to terminate the decision. Consistent with this hypothesis, SC inactivation produced behavioral effects diagnostic of an impaired threshold sensor and prolonged the buildup of activity in LIP. The results reveal the transformation from deliberation to commitment.


Asunto(s)
Toma de Decisiones , Neuronas , Animales , Toma de Decisiones/fisiología , Macaca mulatta , Neuronas/fisiología , Corteza Cerebral
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bioRxiv ; 2023 May 04.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37205406

RESUMEN

High-density, integrated silicon electrodes have begun to transform systems neuroscience, by enabling large-scale neural population recordings with single cell resolution. Existing technologies, however, have provided limited functionality in nonhuman primate species such as macaques, which offer close models of human cognition and behavior. Here, we report the design, fabrication, and performance of Neuropixels 1.0-NHP, a high channel count linear electrode array designed to enable large-scale simultaneous recording in superficial and deep structures within the macaque or other large animal brain. These devices were fabricated in two versions: 4416 electrodes along a 45 mm shank, and 2496 along a 25 mm shank. For both versions, users can programmatically select 384 channels, enabling simultaneous multi-area recording with a single probe. We demonstrate recording from over 3000 single neurons within a session, and simultaneous recordings from over 1000 neurons using multiple probes. This technology represents a significant increase in recording access and scalability relative to existing technologies, and enables new classes of experiments involving fine-grained electrophysiological characterization of brain areas, functional connectivity between cells, and simultaneous brain-wide recording at scale.

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Nat Neurosci ; 25(11): 1492-1504, 2022 11.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36216998

RESUMEN

Voluntary movement requires communication from cortex to the spinal cord, where a dedicated pool of motor units (MUs) activates each muscle. The canonical description of MU function rests upon two foundational tenets. First, cortex cannot control MUs independently but supplies each pool with a common drive. Second, MUs are recruited in a rigid fashion that largely accords with Henneman's size principle. Although this paradigm has considerable empirical support, a direct test requires simultaneous observations of many MUs across diverse force profiles. In this study, we developed an isometric task that allowed stable MU recordings, in a rhesus macaque, even during rapidly changing forces. Patterns of MU activity were surprisingly behavior-dependent and could be accurately described only by assuming multiple drives. Consistent with flexible descending control, microstimulation of neighboring cortical sites recruited different MUs. Furthermore, the cortical population response displayed sufficient degrees of freedom to potentially exert fine-grained control. Thus, MU activity is flexibly controlled to meet task demands, and cortex may contribute to this ability.


Asunto(s)
Neuronas Motoras , Médula Espinal , Animales , Neuronas Motoras/fisiología , Macaca mulatta , Músculo Esquelético/fisiología , Electromiografía , Contracción Muscular/fisiología
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Nat Neurosci ; 25(2): 252-263, 2022 02.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35102333

RESUMEN

Recent advances in multi-electrode array technology have made it possible to monitor large neuronal ensembles at cellular resolution in animal models. In humans, however, current approaches restrict recordings to a few neurons per penetrating electrode or combine the signals of thousands of neurons in local field potential (LFP) recordings. Here we describe a new probe variant and set of techniques that enable simultaneous recording from over 200 well-isolated cortical single units in human participants during intraoperative neurosurgical procedures using silicon Neuropixels probes. We characterized a diversity of extracellular waveforms with eight separable single-unit classes, with differing firing rates, locations along the length of the electrode array, waveform spatial spread and modulation by LFP events such as inter-ictal discharges and burst suppression. Although some challenges remain in creating a turnkey recording system, high-density silicon arrays provide a path for studying human-specific cognitive processes and their dysfunction at unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution.


Asunto(s)
Corteza Cerebral , Neuronas , Animales , Electrodos , Humanos , Neuronas/fisiología , Silicio
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Nature ; 602(7896): 274-279, 2022 02.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35082444

RESUMEN

The brain's remarkable ability to learn and execute various motor behaviours harnesses the capacity of neural populations to generate a variety of activity patterns. Here we explore systematic changes in preparatory activity in motor cortex that accompany motor learning. We trained rhesus monkeys to learn an arm-reaching task1 in a curl force field that elicited new muscle forces for some, but not all, movement directions2,3. We found that in a neural subspace predictive of hand forces, changes in preparatory activity tracked the learned behavioural modifications and reassociated4 existing activity patterns with updated movements. Along a neural population dimension orthogonal to the force-predictive subspace, we discovered that preparatory activity shifted uniformly for all movement directions, including those unaltered by learning. During a washout period when the curl field was removed, preparatory activity gradually reverted in the force-predictive subspace, but the uniform shift persisted. These persistent preparatory activity patterns may retain a motor memory of the learned field5,6 and support accelerated relearning of the same curl field. When a set of distinct curl fields was learned in sequence, we observed a corresponding set of field-specific uniform shifts which separated the associated motor memories in the neural state space7-9. The precise geometry of these uniform shifts in preparatory activity could serve to index motor memories, facilitating the acquisition, retention and retrieval of a broad motor repertoire.


Asunto(s)
Aprendizaje , Corteza Motora , Destreza Motora , Animales , Aprendizaje/fisiología , Macaca mulatta/fisiología , Corteza Motora/fisiología , Destreza Motora/fisiología , Movimiento/fisiología , Músculo Esquelético/fisiología
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Nat Commun ; 12(1): 3689, 2021 06 17.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34140486

RESUMEN

Calcium imaging is a powerful tool for recording from large populations of neurons in vivo. Imaging in rhesus macaque motor cortex can enable the discovery of fundamental principles of motor cortical function and can inform the design of next generation brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Surface two-photon imaging, however, cannot presently access somatic calcium signals of neurons from all layers of macaque motor cortex due to photon scattering. Here, we demonstrate an implant and imaging system capable of chronic, motion-stabilized two-photon imaging of neuronal calcium signals from macaques engaged in a motor task. By imaging apical dendrites, we achieved optical access to large populations of deep and superficial cortical neurons across dorsal premotor (PMd) and gyral primary motor (M1) cortices. Dendritic signals from individual neurons displayed tuning for different directions of arm movement. Combining several technical advances, we developed an optical BCI (oBCI) driven by these dendritic signalswhich successfully decoded movement direction online. By fusing two-photon functional imaging with CLARITY volumetric imaging, we verified that many imaged dendrites which contributed to oBCI decoding originated from layer 5 output neurons, including a putative Betz cell. This approach establishes new opportunities for studying motor control and designing BCIs via two photon imaging.


Asunto(s)
Interfaces Cerebro-Computador , Calcio/metabolismo , Dendritas/fisiología , Microscopía Intravital/instrumentación , Microscopía Intravital/métodos , Corteza Motora/diagnóstico por imagen , Imagen Multimodal/métodos , Animales , Proteínas de Unión al Calcio/metabolismo , Dendritas/metabolismo , Proteínas Fluorescentes Verdes/metabolismo , Implantes Experimentales , Macaca mulatta , Masculino , Modelos Neurológicos , Actividad Motora/fisiología , Corteza Motora/fisiología , Neuronas/fisiología , Fotones
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Neuron ; 105(2): 246-259.e8, 2020 01 22.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31786013

RESUMEN

Though the temporal precision of neural computation has been studied intensively, a data-driven determination of this precision remains a fundamental challenge. Reproducible spike patterns may be obscured on single trials by uncontrolled temporal variability in behavior and cognition and may not be time locked to measurable signatures in behavior or local field potentials (LFP). To overcome these challenges, we describe a general-purpose time warping framework that reveals precise spike-time patterns in an unsupervised manner, even when these patterns are decoupled from behavior or are temporally stretched across single trials. We demonstrate this method across diverse systems: cued reaching in nonhuman primates, motor sequence production in rats, and olfaction in mice. This approach flexibly uncovers diverse dynamical firing patterns, including pulsatile responses to behavioral events, LFP-aligned oscillatory spiking, and even unanticipated patterns, such as 7 Hz oscillations in rat motor cortex that are not time locked to measured behaviors or LFP.


Asunto(s)
Potenciales de Acción/fisiología , Neuronas/fisiología , Reconocimiento de Normas Patrones Automatizadas/métodos , Precursor de Proteína beta-Amiloide/genética , Animales , Técnicas de Sustitución del Gen , Macaca mulatta , Masculino , Ratones , Ratones Transgénicos , Microinyecciones , Corteza Motora/fisiología , Fragmentos de Péptidos/genética , Cultivo Primario de Células , Proteínas/genética , Ratas , Factores de Tiempo
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Neuron ; 103(2): 292-308.e4, 2019 07 17.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31171448

RESUMEN

A central goal of systems neuroscience is to relate an organism's neural activity to behavior. Neural population analyses often reduce the data dimensionality to focus on relevant activity patterns. A major hurdle to data analysis is spike sorting, and this problem is growing as the number of recorded neurons increases. Here, we investigate whether spike sorting is necessary to estimate neural population dynamics. The theory of random projections suggests that we can accurately estimate the geometry of low-dimensional manifolds from a small number of linear projections of the data. We recorded data using Neuropixels probes in motor cortex of nonhuman primates and reanalyzed data from three previous studies and found that neural dynamics and scientific conclusions are quite similar using multiunit threshold crossings rather than sorted neurons. This finding unlocks existing data for new analyses and informs the design and use of new electrode arrays for laboratory and clinical use.


Asunto(s)
Potenciales de Acción/fisiología , Modelos Neurológicos , Corteza Motora/citología , Neuronas/fisiología , Dinámicas no Lineales , Algoritmos , Animales , Simulación por Computador , Macaca mulatta , Masculino
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Nat Methods ; 15(10): 805-815, 2018 10.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30224673

RESUMEN

Neuroscience is experiencing a revolution in which simultaneous recording of thousands of neurons is revealing population dynamics that are not apparent from single-neuron responses. This structure is typically extracted from data averaged across many trials, but deeper understanding requires studying phenomena detected in single trials, which is challenging due to incomplete sampling of the neural population, trial-to-trial variability, and fluctuations in action potential timing. We introduce latent factor analysis via dynamical systems, a deep learning method to infer latent dynamics from single-trial neural spiking data. When applied to a variety of macaque and human motor cortical datasets, latent factor analysis via dynamical systems accurately predicts observed behavioral variables, extracts precise firing rate estimates of neural dynamics on single trials, infers perturbations to those dynamics that correlate with behavioral choices, and combines data from non-overlapping recording sessions spanning months to improve inference of underlying dynamics.


Asunto(s)
Potenciales de Acción , Algoritmos , Modelos Neurológicos , Corteza Motora/fisiología , Neuronas/fisiología , Animales , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Dinámica Poblacional , Primates
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