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Neuroscience

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Latest articles

    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Auditory Hair Cells: Examining the role of lipids in hearing

    Yein Christina Park, Angela Ballesteros
    The asymmetry of lipid membranes is tightly regulated in eukaryotic cells, and auditory hair cells are no exception.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Dissociable neural substrates of integration and segregation in exogenous attention

    Yujie Chen, Ai-Su Li ... Yang Zhang
    Dissociable neural signatures of integration and segregation provide the first direct neuroimaging evidence for the integration-segregation theory of exogenous attention.
    1. Neuroscience

    Modeling flexible behavior with remapping-based hippocampal sequence learning

    Yoshiki Ito, Taro Toyoizumi
    A biologically plausible reinforcement learning model that integrates associative memory and hippocampal remapping explains context-dependent flexible behavior, neural dynamics, and psychosis-related symptoms.
    1. Neuroscience

    Characterisation of cold-selective lamina I spinal projection neurons in the mouse

    Aimi N Razlan, Wenhui Ma ... Junichi Hachisuka
    Lamina I projection neurons that respond selectively to skin cooling receive monosynaptic input from Trpm8-expressing primary afferents and innervate brain regions involved in perception of cold and cold defence mechanisms.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Neuroscience

    Intravital calcium imaging of meningeal macrophages reveals niche-specific dynamics and aberrant responses to brain hyperexcitability

    Simone Carneiro-Nascimento, Chao Wei ... Dan Levy
    Intravital microscopy of meningeal macrophage Ca²⁺ dynamics reveals previously unknown population heterogeneity, vasomotion-coupled activity, and diverse responses during steady state and neuroinflammatory conditions, offering relevant insights into brain immune regulation.
    1. Neuroscience

    Brainwide dopamine dynamics across sleep-wake transitions

    Changwan Chen, Xun Tu ... Dana Darmohray
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    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Nicotine-driven hyperactivation of larval locomotion

    Stephanie Dancausse, Jocelyn Robles ... Mason Klein
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Cortical motor activity modulates respiration and reduces apnoea in neonates

    Coen S Zandvoort, Fatima Usman ... Caroline Hartley
    Communication between the cortex and respiration, known as cortico-respiratory coupling, occurs in newborn infants and relates to apnoea rate.
    1. Neuroscience

    Functional imaging of nine distinct neuronal populations under a miniscope in freely behaving animals

    Mary L Phillips, Nicolai T Urban ... Ryohei Yasuda
    Multiplexed spectral fingerprinting through a single implanted GRIN lens enables projection-resolved functional imaging of up to nine neuronal populations in freely behaving animals without post hoc histology.
    1. Ecology
    2. Neuroscience

    Drift in individual behavioral phenotype as a strategy for unpredictable worlds

    Ryan T Maloney, Athena Q Ye ... Benjamin L de Bivort
    Individual flies have idiosyncratic preferences that shift over their lifetime in a way that depends on genotype and may be adaptive to rapidly changing environmental pressures.

Highlights

    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    The role of lipids in hearing

    Yein Christina Park, Angela Ballesteros
    1. Neuroscience

    Cilia reveal their secrets

    Ruth Anne Eatock, Marina Kabirova
    1. Neuroscience

    The sound of neural silence

    Nikki Tjahjono, Yu-Shun Wang, Lin Tian

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  1. Sofia J Araújo
    University of Barcelona, Spain
  2. Christian Büchel
    University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
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    Brown University, United States
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