Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of multi-region brain cell count data

    Sydney Dimmock, Benjamin MS Exley ... Cian O’Donnell
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    The electrogenicity of the Na+/K+-ATPase poses challenges for computation in highly active spiking cells

    Liz Weerdmeester, Jan-Hendrik Schleimer, Susanne Schreiber
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    BetaII-Spectrin Gaps and Patches Emerge from the Patterned Assembly of the Actin/Spectrin Membrane Skeleton in Human Motor Neuron Axons

    Nahir Guadalupe Gazal, Maria Jose Castellanos-Montiel ... Nicolás Unsain
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    A novel mouse model for LAMA2-related muscular dystrophy with analysis of molecular pathogenesis and clinical phenotype

    Dandan Tan, Yidan Liu ... Hui Xiong
    Analysis of phenotype and molecular pathogenesis in a new LAMA2-related muscular dystrophy mouse model.
    1. Neuroscience

    In vivo mapping of striatal neurodegeneration in Huntington’s disease with Soma and Neurite Density Imaging

    Vasileios Ioakeimidis, Marco Palombo ... Claudia Metzler-Baddeley
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Neuroscience

    Novel and optimized mouse behavior enabled by fully autonomous HABITS: Home-cage assisted behavioral innovation and testing system

    Bowen Yu, Penghai Li ... Yaoyao Hao
    Fully autonomous home-cage training system HABITS enables mice to learn complex cognitive behaviors without human intervention, expanding behavioral paradigms and optimizing training efficiency through machine teaching algorithms.
    1. Neuroscience

    The ciliary kinesin KIF7 controls the development of the cerebral cortex by acting differentially on SHH signaling in dorsal and ventral forebrain

    María Pedraza, Valentina Grampa ... Justine Masson
    KIF7 loss of function affects several developmental stages of the cerebral cortex and likely causes neurodevelopmental delay, intellectual disability, and epilepsia observed in ciliopathic patients with KIF7 mutations.
    1. Neuroscience

    Structure transfer and consolidation in visual implicit learning

    Dominik Garber, József Fiser
    Sleep is essential for consolidating implicitly acquired perceptual knowledge that enables the knowledge transfer effect via newly learned structured information observed in prior studies of explicit learning.
    1. Neuroscience

    Observational activation of anterior cingulate cortical neurons coordinates hippocampal replay in social learning

    Xiang Mou, Daoyun Ji
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Is 'number sense' a sense?

    Toshiya Matsushima
    1. Neuroscience

    A cell atlas for the dorsal vagal complex

    Greta Lommi, Thomas A Lutz
    1. Neuroscience

    A whole-body connectome

    Alex M Winsor, Paul S Katz

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  1. Christian Büchel
    University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
  2. Merritt Maduke
    Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
  3. Tamar Makin
    University College London, United Kingdom
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