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ArticleeLife2026

Disrupted hippocampal theta-gamma coupling and spike-field coherence following experimental traumatic brain injury.

Christopher D Adam, Ehsan Mirzakhalili, Kimberly G Gagnon, Carlo Cottone, John D Arena, Alexandra Ulyanova, Victoria E Johnson, John A Wolf

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Article in eLife, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Interneuron theta phase locking controls seizure susceptibility.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  4. Biological psychiatry global open science · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Christopher D AdamCenter for Brain Injury and Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6520-5301
Ehsan MirzakhaliliCenter for Brain Injury and Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1926-0035
Kimberly G GagnonCenter for Brain Injury and Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States.
Carlo CottoneCenter for Brain Injury and Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States.
John D ArenaCenter for Brain Injury and Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4322-4472
Alexandra UlyanovaCenter for Brain Injury and Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States.
Victoria E JohnsonCenter for Brain Injury and Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States.
John A WolfCenter for Brain Injury and Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6950-2303

Funding

Network Dysfunction and Neuromodulation following TBIR01NS101108 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI John Allen Wolf · 2017 to 2026
$3.3M
NINDS NIH HHS NS043126NINDS NIH HHS NS101108NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS101108RRD VA I01 RX002705United States Department of Veterans Affairs RX002705
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) often results in persistent learning and memory deficits, likely due to disrupted hippocampal circuitry underlying these processes. Precise temporal control of hippocampal neuronal activity is thought to be important for memory encoding and retrieval and is supported by oscillations that dynamically organize single-unit firing. Using high-density laminar electrophysiology, we found a loss of oscillatory power across CA1 lamina, with a profound, layer-specific reduction in theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling in injured rats. Interneurons from injured animals were less strongly entrained to theta and gamma oscillations, but both interneurons and pyramidal cells from injured animals became more strongly entrained to theta during periods of high theta power. During quiet immobility, sharp-wave ripple amplitudes were lower in injured animals compared to shams. These results reveal physiological deficits across brain states that may contribute to TBI-associated learning and memory impairments and elucidate potential targets for future neuromodulation therapies.

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Action PotentialsBrain Injuries, TraumaticCA1 Region, HippocampalGamma RhythmHippocampusTheta RhythmAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalInterneuronsMalePyramidal CellsRatsgammahippocampusneuroscienceoscillationratrippleTBItheta

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PMID42284087
PMCPMC13263039

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