AIMC Topic: gamma-Aminobutyric Acid

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Improved Perceptual Learning by Control of Extracellular GABA Concentration by Astrocytic Gap Junctions.

Neural computation
Learning of sensory cues is believed to rely on synchronous pre- and postsynaptic neuronal firing. Evidence is mounting that such synchronicity is not merely caused by properties of the underlying neuronal network but could also depend on the integri...

Global and local excitation and inhibition shape the dynamics of the cortico-striatal-thalamo-cortical pathway.

Scientific reports
The cortico-striatal-thalamo-cortical (CSTC) pathway is a brain circuit that controls movement execution, habit formation and reward. Hyperactivity in the CSTC pathway is involved in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), a neuropsychiatric disorder ch...

Tonic regulation of stationary asynchronous firing of a neural network.

Journal of computational neuroscience
The impact of tonic conductance upon population activity was investigated. An extra tonic transmembrane current through GABA-activated extrasynaptic GABA -receptors was found to control stationary asynchronous firing both quantitatively and qualitat...

Optimization of culture conditions for gamma-aminobutyric acid production in fermented adzuki bean milk.

Journal of food and drug analysis
γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA), a nonprotein amino acid, is widely distributed in nature and fulfills several physiological functions. In this study, various lactic acid strains commonly used to produce fermented milk products were inoculated into adzuki...

Reduction of Trial-to-Trial Perceptual Variability by Intracortical Tonic Inhibition.

Neural computation
Variability is a prominent characteristic of cognitive brain function. For instance, different trials of presentation of the same stimulus yield higher variability in its perception: subjects sometimes fail in perceiving the same stimulus. Perceptual...

GABA diffusion across neuronal columns for efficient sensory tuning.

Biological cybernetics
Synaptic (phasic) lateral inhibition between neuronal columns mediated by GABAergic interneurons is, in general, essential for primary sensory cortices to respond selectively to elemental features. We propose here a neural network model with a nonsyn...

Regulation of Local Ambient GABA Levels via Transporter-Mediated GABA Import and Export for Subliminal Learning.

Neural computation
Perception of supraliminal stimuli might in general be reflected in bursts of action potentials (spikes), and their memory traces could be formed through spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP). Memory traces for subliminal stimuli might be formed i...

Identifying responders to gabapentin for the treatment of alcohol use disorder: an exploratory machine learning approach.

Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire)
BACKGROUND: Gabapentin, an anticonvulsant medication, has been proposed as a treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD). A multisite study tested gabapentin enacarbil extended-release (GE-XR; 600 mg/twice a day), a prodrug formulation, combined with a ...

Understanding the role of astrocytic GABA in simulated neural networks.

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Astrocytes actively influence the behavior of the surrounding neuronal network including changes of the synaptic plasticity and neuronal excitability. These dynamics are altered in diseases like Alzheimer's, where the release of the gliotransmitter G...