arXiv:2607.28068q-bio.NCcs.AI2026-07

用图计算框架发现类脑器官对刺激的反应以同步爆发为主,重复刺激导致反应范围缩小。

Stimulus-Evoked Network Dynamics in Human Cortical Organoids: From a Graph-Computational Framework to Repeated-Stimulation Depression

论文配图:Stimulus-Evoked Network Dynamics in Human Cortical Organoids: From a Graph-Computational Framework to Repeated-Stimulation Depression
图 1 · 摘自论文原文
  • 构建图计算框架量化刺激引发的神经活动传播
  • 发现刺激响应为快速同步爆发,无明显传播特征(斜率=0)
  • 首次通过对照实验证明重复刺激会抑制并收缩反应范围

人类皮层类器官提供了早期神经回路形成的研究模型,但其活动是否反映结构化信息处理而非自发同步尚不明确。我们开发了一套图计算框架,包括条件化功能图、图约束动力学(图神经网络)模型、基于可观测传播深度的生物消息传递原则及一系列图级度量指标。该方法在三个类器官的纵向高密度电极阵列(HD-MEA)记录中完整实施。在恢复真实采样率和刺激时间后,刺激诱发反应表现为快速、近乎同步的网络爆发,未检测到显著向外传播(峰值延迟与距离斜率=0)。因此,传播/整合深度指标(Deff、可达性指数、dmax)不适用,且在现有试验次数下无法可靠估计每日连接图。重新聚焦于同步性、响应群体规模和共享变异性,揭示了受控验证的现象:每日重复刺激逐步抑制并空间收缩刺激响应。尽管已证实重复刺激重塑类器官网络,但纵向设计中每个制备物均被刺激,难以区分其与发育成熟的影响。我们通过发育匹配的未刺激对照打破此混淆:第7天首次刺激的类器官激活93%电极阵列,而经历五次前刺激的类器官仅激活10%。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Human cortical organoids provide an experimentally accessible model of early neural circuit formation, yet whether their activity reflects structured information processing rather than spontaneous synchronization is unclear. We developed a graph-computational framework to quantify stimulus-evoked propagation. This includes stimulus-conditioned functional graphs, a graph-constrained dynamical (graph-neural-network) model used as a system-identification tool, a biological message-passing principle bounding integration depth by observable propagation depth, and a suite of graph-level metrics. We carried this program out in full on longitudinal HD-MEA recordings from three organoids. Once the true acquisition sampling rate and stimulus timing were recovered, the evoked response proved to be a fast, near-synchronous network burst with no measurable outward propagation (peak-latency vs. distance slope = 0). The propagation/integration-depth metrics (Deff ,reachability index, dmax) therefore do not apply, and per-day connectivity graphs were not reliably estimable at the available trial count, a negative result with methodological consequences for applying such metrics to organoid data. Reframing around synchrony, response-population size and shared variability revealed a control-validated phenomenon, i.e., repeated daily stimulation progressively depressed and spatially contracted the evoked response. That repeated stimulation reshapes organoid networks is established, but longitudinal designs in which every preparation is stimulated cannot separate this from developmental maturation. We break that confound with a developmentally-matched, stimulation-naive control, where at day 7, an organoid receiving its first-ever stimulation engaged 93% of the array, whereas organoids with five prior sessions engaged 10%.

类脑类器官神经动力学图计算刺激响应

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