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Neocortical excitation/inhibition balance in information processing and social dysfunction
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Severe behavioural deficits in psychiatric diseases such as autism and schizophrenia have been hypothesized to arise from elevations in the cellular balance of excitation and inhibition (E/I balance) within neural microcircuitry. This hypothesis could unify diverse streams of pathophysiological and genetic evidence, but has not been susceptible to direct testing. Here we design and use several novel optogenetic tools to causally investigate the cellular E/I balance hypothesis in freely moving mammals, and explore the associated circuit physiology. Elevation, but not reduction, of cellular E/I balance within the mouse medial prefrontal cortex was found to elicit a profound impairment in cellular information processing, associated with specific behavioural impairments and increased high-frequency power in the 30-80 Hz range, which have both been observed in clinical conditions in humans. Consistent with the E/I balance hypothesis, compensatory elevation of inhibitory cell excitability partially rescued social deficits caused by E/I balance elevation. These results provide support for the elevated cellular E/I balance hypothesis of severe neuropsychiatric disease-related symptoms.
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“Defective synaptic function leading to an excitation–inhibition (E/I) imbalance is commonly invoked as one possible explanation for ASD (Rubenstein and Merzenich 2003), and is supported by evidence in humans and rodents (Yizhar et al. 2011; Hashemi et al. 2017; Selimbeyoglu et al. 2017).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Yizhar, O., Fenno, L. E., Prigge, M., Schneider, F., Davidson, T. J., O’Shea, D. J., Sohal, V. S., Goshen, I., Finkelstein, J., Paz, J. T., Stehfest, K., Fudim, R., Ramakrishnan, C., Huguenard, J. R., Hegemann, P., & Deisseroth, K.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Yizhar, Ofer
- Hegemann, Peter
- Deisseroth, Karl
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2011-07-27
- Volume
- 477
- Issue
- 7363
- Pages
- 171-178
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC4155501
- OpenAlex
- W2072652550
- Cited by
- 2,454
- References
- 52
- Citations by year
- 2026: 138 · 2025: 154 · 2024: 154 · 2023: 193 · 2022: 179 · 2021: 202 · 2020: 183 · 2019: 172 · 2018: 186 · 2017: 165 · 2016: 152 · 2015: 173 · 2014: 143 · 2013: 129 · 2012: 107
- FWCI
- 52.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- National Institutes of Health (DP1OD000616)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH075957, R01MH086373)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS034774, R01NS006477)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Keywords
- excitation-inhibition balance, medial prefrontal cortex, social dysfunction, autism spectrum disorder, schizophrenia, neuropsychiatric disorders, optogenetics, inhibitory interneurons, neuronal excitability, high-frequency oscillations, social behavior, learning behavior
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Autistic Disorder, Mental Disorders, Disease Models, Animal, Hippocampus, Humans, Learning, Models, Neurological, Motor Activity, Neural Inhibition, Neurons, Schizophrenia, Social Behavior, Prefrontal Cortex, Mice, Opsins, HEK293 Cells
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