lateral inhibition

A novel hypothesis on the role of olfactory bulb granule cells

The role of granule cells in olfactory processing is surrounded by several enigmatic observations, such as the existence of reciprocal spines and the mechanisms for GABA release from them, the missing evidence for functional reciprocal connectivity, and the apparently low inhibitory drive of granule cells, both with respect to recurrent and lateral inhibition. Here, I summarize recent results with regard to GABA release, leading to a novel hypothesis on granule cell function that has the potential to resolve most of these enigmas. I predict that granule cells provide dynamically switched lateral inhibition between coactive glomerular columns and thus possibly a means of olfactory combinatorial coding.

Control of locomotor statistics by contralateral inhibition in a pre-motor center

COSYNE 2023

Anatomical and functional connectivity at the dendrodendritic reciprocal mitral cell-granule cell synapse: Impact on recurrent and lateral inhibition

Auditory tetanization effects in human event-related potential (ERP): long-term potentiation (LTP) and lateral inhibition

Distinct effects of spatial summation and lateral inhibition in cold and warm perception

FENS Forum 2024

Environmental enrichment increases lateral inhibition in the hippocampus

FENS Forum 2024

Towards the cellular substrate of anisotropic lateral inhibition between rat olfactory bulb glomeruli

FENS Forum 2024