Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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

    Hugo J Ladret, Leonardo Lupori ... Georg B Keller
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
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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
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    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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    • Important
    • Convincing
    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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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    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

    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. Neuroscience

    Sensitivity of the human temporal voice areas to nonhuman primate vocalizations

    Leonardo Ceravolo, Coralie Debracque ... Didier Grandjean
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Efficient Working Memory Maintenance via High-Dimensional Rotational Dynamics

    Laura Ritter, Angus Chadwick
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    1. Neuroscience

    Dissociating neuronal signatures of spatial attention and behavioural state in the primary vibrissal cortex of mice

    Guthrie P Dyce, Taylor SEG Singh ... Ehsan Arabzadeh
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    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
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Important
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    Zhong-Lin Lu

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  1. Sofia J Araújo
    University of Barcelona, Spain
  2. Timothy Behrens
    University of Oxford / University College London, United Kingdom
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    University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
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