Language
English
Publication Date
4-1-2025
Journal
Nature
DOI
10.1038/s41586-024-07780-8
PMID
40205209
PMCID
PMC11981935
PubMedCentral® Posted Date
4-9-2025
PubMedCentral® Full Text Version
Post-print
Abstract
Mammalian cortex features a vast diversity of neuronal cell types, each with characteristic anatomical, molecular and functional properties1. Synaptic connectivity shapes how each cell type participates in the cortical circuit, but mapping connectivity rules at the resolution of distinct cell types remains difficult. Here we used millimetre-scale volumetric electron microscopy2 to investigate the connectivity of all inhibitory neurons across a densely segmented neuronal population of 1,352 cells spanning all layers of mouse visual cortex, producing a wiring diagram of inhibition with more than 70,000 synapses. Inspired by classical neuroanatomy, we classified inhibitory neurons based on targeting of dendritic compartments and developed an excitatory neuron classification based on dendritic reconstructions with whole-cell maps of synaptic input. Single-cell connectivity showed a class of disinhibitory specialist that targets basket cells. Analysis of inhibitory connectivity onto excitatory neurons found widespread specificity, with many interneurons exhibiting differential targeting of spatially intermingled subpopulations. Inhibitory targeting was organized into ‘motif groups’, diverse sets of cells that collectively target both perisomatic and dendritic compartments of the same excitatory targets. Collectively, our analysis identified new organizing principles for cortical inhibition and will serve as a foundation for linking contemporary multimodal neuronal atlases with the cortical wiring diagram.
Keywords
Animals, Male, Mice, Connectome, Dendrites, Interneurons, Neural Inhibition, Neurons, Synapses, Visual Cortex, Volume Electron Microscopy, Microscopy, Electron, Transmission, Datasets as Topic, Neural circuits, Visual system, Computational neuroscience
Published Open-Access
yes
Recommended Citation
Schneider-Mizell, Casey M; Bodor, Agnes L; Brittain, Derrick; et al., "Inhibitory Specificity From a Connectomic Census of Mouse Visual Cortex" (2025). Faculty and Staff Publications. 5325.
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/baylor_docs/5325