Naixin Ren

Decoding instrumental lever pressing from prefrontal, accumbens, and hippocampal local field potentials: conservation across sex, task, and dopamine depletion

This study decodes lever-pressing behavior from multi-region LFP in rats across sex, task, and dopamine depletion conditions, showing stable decoding across animals and conditions.

Tracking long-term natural changes in hippocampal excitatory to inhibitory synapses from spikes

The paper tracks long-term changes in hippocampal excitatory-to-inhibitory synapses using spike data from mice, finding that covariance of pre- and postsynaptic activity improves prediction of synaptic efficacy fluctuations.

The Synaptic Architecture of Layer 5 Thick Tufted Excitatory Neurons in the Visual Cortex of Mice

The paper investigates the synaptic connectivity of thick tufted layer 5 pyramidal neurons in the mouse visual cortex, revealing their local inhibitory and long-range excitatory connections.

Predictable fluctuations in excitatory synaptic strength due to natural variation in presynaptic firing rate

The paper examines how natural variations in presynaptic firing rates affect excitatory synaptic strength over slow timescales in vivo.

Inhibition-Dominated Rich-Club Shapes Dynamics in Cortical Microcircuits

The paper shows that inhibitory neurons dominate the rich-club structure in cortical microcircuits, influencing network dynamics through increased synchrony and longer neuronal avalanches.

Model-based detection of putative synaptic connections from spike recordings with latency and type constraints

This paper develops a statistical model to detect synaptic connections from spike recordings by separating fast synaptic effects from slow background fluctuations and incorporating network properties.

Modeling the short-term dynamics of in vivo excitatory spike transmission

The paper develops a statistical model to disentangle synaptic and non-synaptic effects on spike transmission using pre- and postsynaptic spiking data from in vivo recordings.