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Critical Periods and Beyond: Dynamic Functions of Perineuronal Nets in Cognition, Development, and Disease

2025· article· en· W4416196924 on OpenAlexaff
Jon T. Sakata, Kimberly M. Alonge, Emma J. Diethorn, Keerthi Krishnan, Noah Milman, Adam I. Ramsaran, Xinghaoyun Wan, Barbara A. Sorg

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Neuroscience · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicProteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research
Canadian institutionsSickKids FoundationHospital for Sick ChildrenMcGill University
FundersEunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human DevelopmentNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney DiseasesNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and StrokeNational Institute of Mental Health
KeywordsPerineuronal netContext (archaeology)DiseaseNeuroplasticityFunction (biology)CognitionSensory system

Abstract

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First discovered by Golgi, perineuronal nets (PNNs) are extracellular matrices that surround various neuron types in the nervous system. They have been found to emerge at the end of developmental critical periods and serve as "molecular brakes" on plasticity. Perineuronal nets have traditionally been studied in the context of sensory and cognitive plasticity, but recent studies extend their contributions to brain plasticity involved in substance use disorders, metabolism, neurodegeneration, and more. This review will summarize recent discoveries about the functions of PNNs across diverse circuits, contexts, and species, across different stages of life, and between disease and nondisease states and will integrate fundamental and clinical studies to identify conserved and novel functions of PNNs. Given the recent map of extensive PNN expression, we hope to encourage investigators researching diverse neural systems to examine PNN contributions to circuit function and behavior.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.004

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.310
Teacher spread0.298 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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