Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Tau hyperphosphorylation impairs cooperative binding to microtubules and perturbs organelle trafficking in neurons

    Daniel Beaudet, Christopher L Berger, Adam G Hendricks
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Individual differences drive social hierarchies in male mouse societies

    Jonathan Reinwald, Sarah Ghanayem ... Wolfgang Kelsch
    Automated, long-term tracking reveals that social rank in male mice is a stable individual trait that persists across group changes, with chasing serving to negotiate rank among dominant individuals.
    1. Neuroscience

    Circadian photoreceptor CRYPTOCHROME promotes wakefulness under short winter-like days via a GABAergic circuitry

    Lixia Chen, Danya Tian ... Luoying Zhang
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Noradrenergic infraslow rhythm during sleep is the critical link between heart-rate dynamics and memory consolidation

    Sofie S Jacobsen, Allison B Morehouse ... Celia Kjaerby
    Very-low-frequency heart rate variability reflects locus coeruleus activity during sleep and predicts spindle-dependent memory consolidation across mice and humans.
    1. Neuroscience

    Dynamic fMRI networks of human emotion

    Niels Janssen, Uriel KA Elvira ... Theo GM van Erp
    Time-resolved mapping of whole-brain functional MRI networks during human emotional experience reveals a dynamic systems-level organization that links temporal processing with large-scale functional brain architecture.
    1. Neuroscience

    Multi-timescale dynamics organize descending pain modulation

    Carl Ashworth, Melissa Martenson ... Flavia Mancini
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Disrupts γ-Secretase Activity and Impairs Learning and Memory in Wild-Type and 3xTg-AD Mice

    Paola Montenegro, Rachel Kim ... Hermes Yeh
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Evolution imposes an inductive bias that alters and accelerates learning dynamics

    Benjamin Midler, Alejandro Pan Vazquez
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    A Functional Influence Based Circuit Motif That Constrains the Set of Plausible Algorithms of Cortical Function

    Anna Vasilevskaya, Georg B Keller
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    HSSM: A Widely Applicable Toolbox for Hierarchical Bayesian Neurocognitive Modeling

    Alexander Fengler, Yang Xu ... Michael J Frank
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    • Incomplete
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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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