{"id":231311,"date":"2026-02-13T21:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/uncovering-the-hidden-synaptic-microarchitecture-of-the-retinal-direction-selective-circuit"},"modified":"2026-02-13T21:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:10:12","slug":"uncovering-the-hidden-synaptic-microarchitecture-of-the-retinal-direction-selective-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/uncovering-the-hidden-synaptic-microarchitecture-of-the-retinal-direction-selective-circuit","title":{"rendered":"Uncovering the \u201chidden\u201d synaptic microarchitecture of the retinal direction selective circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uncovering-the-hidden-synaptic-microarchitecture-of-the-retinal-direction-selective-circuit2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DeRosenroll et al. show that direction selectivity relies on finely patterned ACh and GABA inputs that are \u201chidden\u201d in somatic measurements. Expanding ACh spread disrupts this micro-scale E\/I organization, revealing that subcellular\u2014not global\u2014balance determines DSGC spike output.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeRosenroll et al. show that direction selectivity relies on finely patterned ACh and GABA inputs that are \u201chidden\u201d in somatic measurements. Expanding ACh spread disrupts this micro-scale E\/I organization, revealing that subcellular\u2014not global\u2014balance determines DSGC spike output.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}