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Neuroscience

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    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
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    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
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    • Useful
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    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
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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
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    1. Neuroscience

    Realistic Coupling enables flexible macroscopic traveling waves in the mouse cortex

    Guanhua Sun, James Hazelden ... Daniel B Forger
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    • 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.
    1. Neuroscience

    Economic and social modulations of innate decision-making in mice exposed to visual threats

    Zhe Li, Jiahui Wang ... Ya-tang Li
    Threat, reward, and social hierarchy jointly shape innate defensive decisions through vigilance-dependent value integration.
    1. Neuroscience

    Local inhibitory dynamics underpin temporal integration and functional segregation between barrels and septa in the mouse barrel cortex

    Ali Özgür Argunşah, Tevye Jason Stachniak ... Theofanis Karayannis
    Elfn1-mediated synaptic facilitation onto somatostatin-positive interneurons drives the local lateral inhibition required to functionally segregate cortical barrel and septal processing domains in mice.
    1. Neuroscience

    A single evidence accumulation process informs perceptual choices and subsequent confidence reports

    John P Grogan, Luc Vermeylen ... Redmond G O’Connell
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    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
    1. Neuroscience

    Language acquisition in newborns

    Marcela Peña

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    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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    University of California, Los Angeles, United States
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