Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Designing optimal perturbation inputs for system identification in neuroscience

    Mikito Ogino, Daiki Sekizawa ... Masafumi Oizumi
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Descending locus coeruleus noradrenergic signaling to spinal astrocyte subset is required for stress-induced mechanical pain hypersensitivity

    Riku Kawanabe-Kobayashi, Sawako Uchiyama ... Makoto Tsuda
    Stress activates a locus coeruleus–spinal dorsal horn noradrenergic circuit that drives mechanical pain hypersensitivity through Hes5-positive astrocytes.
    1. Neuroscience

    Anesthesia Lowers Spatial Frequency Preference in the Primary Visual Cortex

    Jiahao Wu, Taisuke Yoneda ... Yumiko Yoshimura
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    • Useful
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Pupil size reveals the perceptual quality and effortless nature of synesthesia

    Christoph Strauch, Casper Leenaars, Romke Rouw
    Not revised
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    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Multiple Functions of Cerebello-Thalamic Neurons in Learning and Offline Consolidation of a Motor Skill in mice

    Andres P Varani, Caroline Mailhes-Hamon ... Daniela Popa
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Formation of Task Representations and Replay in Mouse Medial Prefrontal Cortex

    Hamed Shabani, Hannah Muysers ... Christian Leibold
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Useful
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    White Matter Stratification in Depression Predicts Multidimensional Antidepressant Responses

    Jiaolong Qin, Xinyi Wang ... Qing Lu
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Ecology

    Drift in Individual Behavioral Phenotype as a Strategy for Unpredictable Worlds

    Ryan Maloney, Athena Ye ... Benjamin L de Bivort
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Neuroscience

    Hugin-AstA circuitry is a novel central energy sensor that directly regulates sweet sensation in Drosophila and mouse

    Wusa Qin, Tingting Song ... Rui Huang
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
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    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    “What” × “When” working memory representations using Laplace Neural Manifolds

    Aakash Sarkar, Shangfu Zuo ... Marc W Howard
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete

Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Non-visual photoreceptors

    N Sören Häfker
    1. Neuroscience

    Encoding time in working memory

    Dhruv Grover, Marissa L Heintschel

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    University of Barcelona, Spain
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