T K Hensch

Summary

Affiliation: RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Country: Japan

Publications

  1. ncbi Specific GABAA circuits for visual cortical plasticity
    Michela Fagiolini
    Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Development, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2 1 Hirosawa, Wako Shi, Saitama, 351 0198 Japan
    Science 303:1681-3. 2004
  2. ncbi Local GABA circuit control of experience-dependent plasticity in developing visual cortex
    T K Hensch
    Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Development, Brain Science Institute RIKEN, 2 1 Hirosawa, Wako Shi, Saitama 351 0198, Japan
    Science 282:1504-8. 1998
  3. ncbi Controlling the critical period
    Takao K Hensch
    Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Development, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2 1 Hirosawa, Wako Shi, Saitama 351 0198, Japan
    Neurosci Res 47:17-22. 2003
  4. ncbi Inhibitory threshold for critical-period activation in primary visual cortex
    M Fagiolini
    Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Development, Brain Science Institute RIKEN, Saitama, Japan
    Nature 404:183-6. 2000
  5. ncbi Critical period revisited: impact on vision
    Hirofumi Morishita
    Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Curr Opin Neurobiol 18:101-7. 2008
  6. ncbi Nav1.1 localizes to axons of parvalbumin-positive inhibitory interneurons: a circuit basis for epileptic seizures in mice carrying an Scn1a gene mutation
    Ikuo Ogiwara
    Laboratory for Neurogenetics, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama 351 0198, Japan
    J Neurosci 27:5903-14. 2007
  7. ncbi Optimization of somatic inhibition at critical period onset in mouse visual cortex
    Hiroyuki Katagiri
    Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Development, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2 1 Hirosawa, Wako Shi, Saitama 351 0198, Japan
    Neuron 53:805-12. 2007
  8. ncbi Experience-dependent pruning of dendritic spines in visual cortex by tissue plasminogen activator
    Nobuko Mataga
    Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Development, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research RIKEN, Brain Science Institute, 2 1 Hirosawa, Wako Shi, Saitama 351 0198, Japan
    Neuron 44:1031-41. 2004
  9. ncbi Excitatory-inhibitory balance and critical period plasticity in developing visual cortex
    Takao K Hensch
    Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Development, Critical Period Mechanisms Research Group, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
    Prog Brain Res 147:115-24. 2005
  10. ncbi Columnar architecture sculpted by GABA circuits in developing cat visual cortex
    Takao K Hensch
    Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Development, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
    Science 303:1678-81. 2004

Collaborators

  • S Nakanishi
  • Masayoshi Mishina
  • H Mohler
  • V Aidinis
  • John J Renger
  • J M Fritschy
  • Uwe Rudolph
  • Kunihiko Obata
  • Michela Fagiolini
  • Hiroyuki Miyamoto
  • Nobuko Mataga
  • Hiroyuki Katagiri
  • Sayaka Sugiyama
  • Hirofumi Morishita
  • Ikuo Ogiwara
  • Youichi Iwai
  • Piero Carninci
  • M Fagiolini
  • Michel Volovitch
  • Alain Prochiantz
  • Shinichi Aizawa
  • Isao Matsuo
  • Ariel A Di Nardo
  • Nafiseh Atapour
  • Noriyuki Morita
  • Ikuyo Inoue
  • Kazuhiro Yamakawa
  • Yuchio Yanagawa
  • Emi Mazaki
  • Shigeyoshi Itohara
  • Teiichi Furuichi
  • Tamaki Takeuchi
  • Yoko Mizuguchi
  • Karin Löw
  • Hiromitsu Nakauchi
  • Hisashi Mori
  • Paul Lyons
  • Seth G N Grant
  • Christine Wells
  • Peter Mombaerts
  • Toshiyuki Shiraki
  • Yoshihide Hayashizaki
  • Hiroo Iwata
  • Shinji Kondo
  • Michelle Brinkmeier
  • Naoki Osato
  • Yasushi Okazaki
  • Yoshiyuki Ishii
  • Hideaki Konno
  • Stefano Gustincich
  • Tomoko Hirozane-Kishikawa
  • Kazuhiro Shibata
  • Masami Muramatsu
  • Kenjiro Sato
  • David A Hume
  • Takahiro Arakawa
  • Ayako Yasunishi
  • Hidemasa Bono
  • Kazunori Waki
  • Rintaro Saito
  • Sally Camper
  • Moriaki Kusakabe
  • Kirk Beisel
  • Akira Watahiki
  • Atsushi Yoshiki
  • William Pavan
  • Akira Nakagawara
  • Daisuke Sasaki
  • Noriko Kikuchi
  • Yuko Shibata
  • Junji Hirota
  • Mari Nakamura
  • Shiro Fukuda
  • Katsunori Aizawa
  • Tomohiro Kono
  • Yuichi Sugahara
  • Jun Kawai
  • Masayoshi Itoh
  • William A Held
  • Nobuo Nagai

Detail Information

Publications20

  1. ncbi Specific GABAA circuits for visual cortical plasticity
    Michela Fagiolini
    Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Development, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2 1 Hirosawa, Wako Shi, Saitama, 351 0198 Japan
    Science 303:1681-3. 2004
    ..This dissociation carries implications for models of brain development and the safe design of benzodiazepines for use in infants...
  2. ncbi Local GABA circuit control of experience-dependent plasticity in developing visual cortex
    T K Hensch
    Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Development, Brain Science Institute RIKEN, 2 1 Hirosawa, Wako Shi, Saitama 351 0198, Japan
    Science 282:1504-8. 1998
    ..Specific networks of inhibitory interneurons intrinsic to visual cortex may detect perturbations in sensory input to drive experience-dependent plasticity during development...
  3. ncbi Controlling the critical period
    Takao K Hensch
    Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Development, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2 1 Hirosawa, Wako Shi, Saitama 351 0198, Japan
    Neurosci Res 47:17-22. 2003
    ..This overview synthesizes both perspectives across a variety of brain regions and species. A deeper understanding of critical periods will form the basis for novel international efforts to "nurture the brain"...
  4. ncbi Inhibitory threshold for critical-period activation in primary visual cortex
    M Fagiolini
    Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Development, Brain Science Institute RIKEN, Saitama, Japan
    Nature 404:183-6. 2000
    ..A threshold level of inhibition within the visual cortex may thus trigger, once in life, an experience-dependent critical period for circuit consolidation, which may otherwise lie dormant...
  5. ncbi Critical period revisited: impact on vision
    Hirofumi Morishita
    Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Curr Opin Neurobiol 18:101-7. 2008
    ..Novel pharmacological or environmental interventions now hold great therapeutic promise based on a deeper understanding of critical period mechanisms...
  6. ncbi Nav1.1 localizes to axons of parvalbumin-positive inhibitory interneurons: a circuit basis for epileptic seizures in mice carrying an Scn1a gene mutation
    Ikuo Ogiwara
    Laboratory for Neurogenetics, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama 351 0198, Japan
    J Neurosci 27:5903-14. 2007
    ..Our data indicate that Nav1.1 plays critical roles in the spike output from PV interneurons and, furthermore, that the specifically altered function of these inhibitory circuits may contribute to epileptic seizures in the mice...
  7. ncbi Optimization of somatic inhibition at critical period onset in mouse visual cortex
    Hiroyuki Katagiri
    Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Development, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2 1 Hirosawa, Wako Shi, Saitama 351 0198, Japan
    Neuron 53:805-12. 2007
    ..Site-specific optimization of perisomatic GABA response may thus trigger experience-dependent development in visual cortex...
  8. ncbi Experience-dependent pruning of dendritic spines in visual cortex by tissue plasminogen activator
    Nobuko Mataga
    Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Development, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research RIKEN, Brain Science Institute, 2 1 Hirosawa, Wako Shi, Saitama 351 0198, Japan
    Neuron 44:1031-41. 2004
    ..An extracellular mechanism for structural remodeling that is limited to the binocular zone upon proper detection of competing inputs thus links early sensory experience to visual function...
  9. ncbi Excitatory-inhibitory balance and critical period plasticity in developing visual cortex
    Takao K Hensch
    Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Development, Critical Period Mechanisms Research Group, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
    Prog Brain Res 147:115-24. 2005
  10. ncbi Columnar architecture sculpted by GABA circuits in developing cat visual cortex
    Takao K Hensch
    Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Development, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
    Science 303:1678-81. 2004
    ..An inverse agonist (DMCM) produced the opposite effect. Thus, intracortical inhibitory circuits shape the geometry of incoming thalamic arbors, suggesting that cortical columnar architecture depends on neuronal activity...
  11. ncbi Experience-dependent transfer of Otx2 homeoprotein into the visual cortex activates postnatal plasticity
    Sayaka Sugiyama
    Lab for Neuronal Circuit Development, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2 1 Hirosawa, Wako Shi, Saitama 351 0198, Japan
    Cell 134:508-20. 2008
    ..Thus, the experience-dependent transfer of a homeoprotein may establish the physiological milieu for postnatal plasticity of a neural circuit...
  12. ncbi Experience-dependent plasticity without long-term depression by type 2 metabotropic glutamate receptors in developing visual cortex
    John J Renger
    Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Development, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research RIKEN, Brain Science Institute, 2 1 Hirosawa, Wako Shi, Saitama 351 0198, Japan
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:1041-6. 2002
    ..Short-term depression that was unaffected by mGluR2 deletion may better reflect circuit refinement in vivo...
  13. ncbi Rapid critical period induction by tonic inhibition in visual cortex
    Youichi Iwai
    Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Development, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama 351 0198, Japan
    J Neurosci 23:6695-702. 2003
    ..Thus, enhanced tonic signaling through GABA(A) receptors rapidly creates a milieu for plasticity within neocortex capable of triggering a critical period for ocular dominance independent of visual experience itself...
  14. ncbi Permissive proteolytic activity for visual cortical plasticity
    Nobuko Mataga
    Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Development, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research RIKEN, Brain Science Institute, 2 1 Hirosawa, Wako Shi, Saitama, 351 0198, Japan
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:7717-21. 2002
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  15. ncbi Separable features of visual cortical plasticity revealed by N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor 2A signaling
    Michela Fagiolini
    Neuronal Circuit Development, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, RIKEN, Brain Science Institute, 2 1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351 0198, Japan
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:2854-9. 2003
    ..Taken together, our results demonstrate that the cellular basis generating individual sensory response properties is separable in the developing neocortex...
  16. ncbi Critical period plasticity in local cortical circuits
    Takao K Hensch
    RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2 1 Hirosawa, Wako Shi, Saitama, 351 0198, Japan
    Nat Rev Neurosci 6:877-88. 2005
    ..The reactivation of this process, and subsequent recovery of function in conditions such as amblyopia, can now be studied with realistic circuit models that might generalize across systems...
  17. ncbi Recovery in the blink of an eye
    Takao K Hensch
    Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Development, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
    Neuron 48:166-8. 2005
    ..Ramoa and colleagues now find that binocular recovery from monocular occlusion can be extraordinarily rapid, independent of protein synthesis, and precise. Reactivation of latent connections may then reverse amblyopia...
  18. ncbi Targeting a complex transcriptome: the construction of the mouse full-length cDNA encyclopedia
    Piero Carninci
    Laboratory for Genome Exploration Research Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
    Genome Res 13:1273-89. 2003
    ..Clones accounting for about half of the predicted TUs await further sequencing. The continued high-discovery rate suggests that the task of transcriptome discovery is not yet complete...
  19. ncbi Critical period regulation
    Takao K Hensch
    Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Development, Critical Period Mechanisms Research Group, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2 1 Hirosawa, Wako Shi, Saitama 351 0198, Japan
    Annu Rev Neurosci 27:549-79. 2004
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  20. ncbi Reciprocal interaction of sleep and synaptic plasticity
    Hiroyuki Miyamoto
    Neuronal Circuit Development, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama, Japan
    Mol Interv 3:404-17. 2003
    ..This overview synthesizes these converging perspectives across a variety of brain regions and species. We propose the developing visual pathway as a fruitful model for comprehensive understanding of sleep and synaptic plasticity...