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Neuroscience

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    Population-level temporal decoding and dynamical structure in frontostriatal circuits during decision making

    Adam B Goldring, Anandita De ... Timothy D Hanks
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    Rhythmic temporal structure organizes recurrent dynamics to support sequential working memory

    Yitao Qin, Yun Yang ... Tielin Zhang
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    A transient hypothalamic CRH signal coordinates social investigation in mice

    Ibukun Akinrinade, Meenakshi Pardasani ... Jaideep S Bains
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    Alzheimer disease: The proposed role of tanycytes in the formation of tau tangles and amyloid beta plaques in human brain

    Ruth Fabian-Fine, Abigail G Roman, Adam L Weaver
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    • Inadequate
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    Beyond the Focus of Expansion: Retinal curl as a functional signal for heading estimation

    Kontessa I Zorpala, Joan López-Moliner
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    Ventromedial striatal dopamine dynamically integrates motivated action and reward proximity

    Eugenia Z Poh, Nicky L Buitelaar ... Ingo Willuhn
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    Human brain-wide activation of sleep rhythms

    Haiteng Wang, Qihong Zou ... Yunzhe Liu
    Simultaneous EEG–fMRI recordings in 107 human participants link coupled slow oscillations and sleep spindles to thalamic coordination of hippocampal–prefrontal communication during deep sleep.
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    Closed-loop neurofeedback reshapes preparatory brain states to bias subsequent pain processing

    Yinhua Zhang, Shuang Qiu ... Weiwei Peng
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    A shared neural code for gender across faces, bodies, and objects in the human brain

    Wenjie Liu, Xiqian Lu ... Yi Jiang
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    Essential role for plasma membrane glutamate transporters in stimulus intensity coding in auditory neurons

    Tenzin Ngodup, Laurence O Trussell
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    Understanding the cellular architecture of Huntington’s disease

    Dorian Pustina
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    Stronger memories through smarter stimulation

    Justin Riddle
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    Language acquisition in newborns

    Marcela Peña

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    University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
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    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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