Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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Latest articles

    1. Neuroscience

    PRRT2 as an auxiliary regulator of Nav channel slow inactivation

    Bin Lu, Qi-Wu Xu ... Zhi-Qi Xiong
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Neuroscience

    Neural computations in the foveal and peripheral visual fields during active search

    Jie Zhang, Xiaocang Zhu ... Huihui Zhou
    Foveal attentional processing coordinates with peripheral attention to dynamically shape global attention allocation and fixation behavior during active vision.
    1. Neuroscience

    Visuomotor mismatch EEG responses over occipital cortex of freely moving human subjects

    Magdalena Solyga, Marek Zelechowski, Georg B Keller
    Visuomotor mismatch events elicit robust human prediction error responses that exceed conventional oddball mismatch negativity, enabling translation of sensorimotor prediction mechanisms from mice to humans.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    The Drosophila IR20a Integrates L-arginine and Salt Signals via Distinct Subunit Assemblies

    Bo Wang, Guangnan Qu ... Yan Chen
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    • Incomplete
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Identifying Novel Estrogenic Mitochondrial Targets in Hypothalamic Proopiomelanocortin Neurons by Chemoproteomics

    Jian Qiu, Martha A Bosch ... Martin J Kelly
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Overt visual attention modulates decision-related signals in the frontal cortex

    Blair RK Shevlin, Rachael Gwinn ... Ian Krajbich
    Brain activity in the pre-supplementary motor area and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex represents gaze-weighted accumulated evidence signals in value-based decision-making.
    1. Neuroscience

    Modeling the prodromal phase of Alzheimer’s disease: Selective amyloid-driven failure of cholinergic medial septal neurons perturbs REM sleep, cognition, emotion, and broadcasts pathology in aging mice

    Mathieu Nollet, Wei Ba ... William Wisden
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
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    1. Neuroscience
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Social Influence in Donation Behavior: The Effect of Mean, Variance, and Psychopathy

    Tao Jin, Shen Zhang ... Iris Vilares
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Realistic Coupling enables flexible macroscopic traveling waves in the mouse cortex

    Guanhua Sun, James Hazelden ... Daniel B Forger
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    α/β-Hydrolase domain-containing 6 (ABHD6) accelerates the desensitization and deactivation of TARP γ-2-containing AMPA receptors

    Rixu Cong, Huiran Li ... Chen Zhang
    The gating kinetics of AMPARs are regulated by ABHD6 in a TARP γ-2-dependent manner.
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience
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    How monkeys carve up the visual world

    Binxu Wang
    1. Neuroscience
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    Understanding the cellular architecture of Huntington’s disease

    Dorian Pustina
    1. Neuroscience
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    Stronger memories through smarter stimulation

    Justin Riddle

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    University of Barcelona, Spain
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