Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    PRRT2 as an auxiliary regulator of Nav channel slow inactivation

    Bin Lu, Qi-Wu Xu ... Zhi-Qi Xiong
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    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    Synthetic torpor in the rat protects the heart from ischaemia-reperfusion injury

    Megan Elley, Ludovico Taddei ... Michael Ambler
    Not revised
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    1. Neuroscience

    Human and mouse cerebellar inhibitory circuits in dystonic crisis and their modulation with therapeutic stimulation

    Alejandro G Rey Hipolito, Michael P Dew ... Roy V Sillitoe
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    1. Neuroscience

    Electroconvulsive stimulation drives cortical spreading depression dependent immediate early gene expression in mice

    Hugo J Ladret, Leonardo Lupori ... Georg B Keller
    Not revised
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    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Whisker-based pre-neuronal and peripheral encoding of surface stickiness

    Isis S Wyche, Michaela A O’Neil, Daniel H O’Connor
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Stable excitatory-inhibitory synapse balance despite dynamic turnover

    Krassimira A Garbett, James P Allen ... Richard C Sando
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    1. Neuroscience

    Medial prefrontal cortex encodes but is not required to generate goal-directed actions under threat

    Muhammad S Sajid, Ji Zhou, Manuel A Castro-Alamancos
    Medial prefrontal cortex activity is not required for learning or execution of adaptive avoidance behavior, despite encoding select task features.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Neuroscience

    Cribriform plate microenvironment assembles a suppressive myeloid network during EAE-induced neuroinflammation

    Collin Laaker, Martin Hsu ... Zsuzsanna Fabry
    Regulatory immune cells accumulate at the nose-to-brain interface during neuroinflammation, potentially dampening damaging immune responses.
    1. Neuroscience

    Disentangling cephalopod chromatophores motor units with computer vision

    Mathieu DM Renard, Johann Ukrow ... Gilles Laurent
    The spatial organization of chromatophore-muscle innervation by motoneurons enables the generation of chromatophore-shaped noise, virtual or composite chromatophores, and shape elements such as lines or small blobs.
    1. Neuroscience

    Visual working memory guides attention rhythmically in humans

    Jiachen Lu, Yaochun Cai, Xilin Zhang
    Working memory alternates between remembered items in a rhythmic theta cycle.
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    1. Neuroscience
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    Stronger memories through smarter stimulation

    Justin Riddle
    1. Neuroscience

    Language acquisition in newborns

    Marcela Peña
    1. Neuroscience

    Insights into perceptual learning

    Zhong-Lin Lu

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