Christopher E Vaaga
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Carroll J, Myers B, Vaaga C
bioRxiv
. 2024 Oct;
PMID: 39463941
To survive predation, animals must be able to detect and appropriately respond to predator threats in their environment. Such defensive behaviors are thought to utilize hard-wired neural circuits for threat...
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Brown S, Medina-Pizarro M, Holla M, Vaaga C, Raman I
Neuron
. 2024 Mar;
112(11):1848-1861.e4.
PMID: 38492575
Whisker stimulation in awake mice evokes transient suppression of simple spike probability in crus I/II Purkinje cells. Here, we investigated how simple spike suppression arises synaptically, what it encodes, and...
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Vaaga C, Brown S, Raman I
Elife
. 2020 Mar;
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PMID: 32207681
Innate defensive behaviors, such as freezing, are adaptive for avoiding predation. Freezing-related midbrain regions project to the cerebellum, which is known to regulate rapid sensorimotor integration, raising the question of...
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Woods N, Vaaga C, Chatzi C, Adelson J, Collie M, Perederiy J, et al.
J Neurosci
. 2018 May;
38(26):5843-5853.
PMID: 29793975
Mature dentate granule cells in the hippocampus receive input from the entorhinal cortex via the perforant path in precisely arranged lamina, with medial entorhinal axons innervating the middle molecular layer...
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Vaaga C, Miller K, Bodor A, Perkel D
J Comp Neurol
. 2017 Dec;
526(6):944-956.
PMID: 29218745
Songbirds learn to produce vocalizations early in life by listening to, then copying the songs of conspecific males. The anterior forebrain pathway, homologous to a basal ganglia-forebrain circuit, is essential...
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Vaaga C, Westbrook G
J Physiol
. 2017 Aug;
595(19):6349-6362.
PMID: 28791713
Key Points: The release probability of the odorant receptor neuron (ORN) is reportedly one of the highest in the brain and is predicted to impose a transient temporal filter on...
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Vaaga C, Yorgason J, Williams J, Westbrook G
J Neurophysiol
. 2016 Dec;
117(3):1163-1170.
PMID: 28031402
In the olfactory bulb, lateral inhibition mediated by local juxtaglomerular interneurons has been proposed as a gain control mechanism, important for decorrelating odorant responses. Among juxtaglomerular interneurons, short axon cells...
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Vaaga C, Westbrook G
J Physiol
. 2016 Jul;
594(22):6715-6732.
PMID: 27377344
Key Points: The functional synaptic connectivity between olfactory receptor neurons and principal cells within the olfactory bulb is not well understood. One view suggests that mitral cells, the primary output...
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Vaaga C, Tovar K, Westbrook G
J Neurophysiol
. 2014 Jun;
112(6):1241-5.
PMID: 24944213
Glutamate acts as the universal agonist at ionotropic glutamate receptors in part because of its high degree of conformational flexibility. Other amino acids and small peptides, however, can activate N-methyl-d-aspartate...
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Vaaga C, Borisovska M, Westbrook G
Curr Opin Neurobiol
. 2014 May;
29:25-32.
PMID: 24816154
Co-transmission, the ability of a neuron to release multiple transmitters, has long been recognized in selected circuits. However, the release of multiple primary neurotransmitters from a single neuron is only...