Evidence map›Paper›PMID 24198351›Full record

ReviewThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2013

The neuronal code(s) of the cerebellum.

Detlef H Heck, Chris I De Zeeuw, Dieter Jaeger, Kamran Khodakhah, Abigail L Person

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Review in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

46 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Purkinje Cell Spatial Correlation Dynamics Are Key to Cerebellar Cortical Contributions to Behavior.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  4. More Than a Small Brain: The Importance of Studying Neural Function during Development.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  5. Cerebellar Purkinje Cells Control Posture in Larval Zebrafish (bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Detlef H HeckDepartment of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee 38163, Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1105 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado 80045.
Chris I De Zeeuw
Dieter Jaeger
Kamran Khodakhah
Abigail L Person

Funding

Cerebellar Function in Health and DiseaseR01NS050808 · NINDS · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI KHODAKHAH, KAMRAN · 2006 to 2016
$3.9M
Cerebello-Basal Ganglia InteractionsR01NS079750 · NINDS · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI KHODAKHAH, KAMRAN · 2012 to 2016
$1.8M
Cerebellar NeuromodulationR01NS063227 · NINDS · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI KHODAKHAH, KAMRAN · 2010 to 2014
$1.8M
Cerebellar Modulation of Frontal Cortical FunctionR01NS063009 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS · PI BLAHA, CHARLES, GOLDOWITZ, DANIEL · 2009 to 2013
$1.6M
Coordination of orofacial and respiratory movementsR01NS060887 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCI CTR · PI HECK, DETLEF H · 2009 to 2012
$1.3M
CRCNS: Cerebellar cortico-nuclear interactionsR01NS067201 · NINDS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI JAEGER, DIETER · 2009 to 2013
$1.1M
NINDS NIH HHS NS050808NINDS NIH HHS NS060887NINDS NIH HHS NS063009NINDS NIH HHS NS067201NINDS NIH HHS NS079750NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS050808NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS060887NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS063009NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS063227NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS067201NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS079750
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding how neurons encode information in sequences of action potentials is of fundamental importance to neuroscience. The cerebellum is widely recognized for its involvement in the coordination of movements, which requires muscle activation patterns to be controlled with millisecond precision. Understanding how cerebellar neurons accomplish such high temporal precision is critical to understanding cerebellar function. Inhibitory Purkinje cells, the only output neurons of the cerebellar cortex, and their postsynaptic target neurons in the cerebellar nuclei, fire action potentials at high, sustained frequencies, suggesting spike rate modulation as a possible code. Yet, millisecond precise spatiotemporal spike activity patterns in Purkinje cells and inferior olivary neurons have also been observed. These results and ongoing studies suggest that the neuronal code used by cerebellar neurons may span a wide time scale from millisecond precision to slow rate modulations, likely depending on the behavioral context.

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Action PotentialsAnimalsCerebellumNerve NetNeuronsPurkinje CellsSynaptic Transmission

Identifiers

PMID24198351
PMCPMC3818542

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