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ArticleeLife2017

Distinct responses of Purkinje neurons and roles of simple spikes during associative motor learning in larval zebrafish.

Thomas C Harmon, Uri Magaram, David L McLean, Indira M Raman

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30 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Effects of Short-Term Synaptic Plasticity in Feedforward Inhibitory Circuits on Cerebellar Responses to Repetitive Sensory Input.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  4. Cerebellar Purkinje cell firing reduction contributes to aging-related declining motor coordination in mice.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  6. Cerebellar Purkinje Cells Control Posture in Larval Zebrafish (bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  20. Functionally distinct Purkinje cell types show temporal precision in encoding locomotion.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Thomas C HarmonDepartment of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States.
Uri MagaramDepartment of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States.
David L McLeanDepartment of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States.
Indira M RamanDepartment of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5245-8177

Funding

Training Program in Neurobiology of Information StorageT32MH067564 · NIMH · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI Daniel A Dombeck · 2003 to 2026
$4.7M
Functional Development of Motor NetworksR01NS067299 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI MCLEAN, DAVID · 2010 to 2019
$4.0M
Ionic currents and spiking in cerebellar nuclear neuronsR37NS039395 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI RAMAN, INDIRA M · 2014 to 2019
$3.3M
Synaptic physiology in the zebrafish cerebellum during swimming and learningF31NS095476 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI HARMON, THOMAS CURTIS · 2015 to 2018
$102k
NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH067564NINDS NIH HHS F31 NS095476NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS067299NINDS NIH HHS R37 NS039395
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To study cerebellar activity during learning, we made whole-cell recordings from larval zebrafish Purkinje cells while monitoring fictive swimming during associative conditioning. Fish learned to swim in response to visual stimulation preceding tactile stimulation of the tail. Learning was abolished by cerebellar ablation. All Purkinje cells showed task-related activity. Based on how many complex spikes emerged during learned swimming, they were classified as multiple, single, or zero complex spike (MCS, SCS, ZCS) cells. With learning, MCS and ZCS cells developed increased climbing fiber (MCS) or parallel fiber (ZCS) input during visual stimulation; SCS cells fired complex spikes associated with learned swimming episodes. The categories correlated with location. Optogenetically suppressing simple spikes only during visual stimulation demonstrated that simple spikes are required for acquisition and early stages of expression of learned responses, but not their maintenance, consistent with a transient, instructive role for simple spikes during cerebellar learning in larval zebrafish.

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Action PotentialsLearningSwimmingAnimalsCerebellumLarvaPurkinje CellsZebrafisharchaerhodopsincerebellumclassical conditioningcomplex spikeneurosciencesensorimotor integrationzebrafish

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PMID28541889
PMCPMC5444900

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