Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Effort produces after-effects costly for others but valued for self

    Ya Zheng, Rumeng Tang
    Neural reward signals following effort are amplified for self-benefiting outcomes but attenuated for other-benefiting outcomes, contingent upon reward magnitude and individual effort sensitivity.
    1. Neuroscience

    A meta-analysis suggests that TMS targeting the hippocampal network selectively improves episodic memory

    Elena Badillo Goicoechea, Phillip F Agres ... Joel L Voss
    Meta-analysis indicates that network-targeted non-invasive brain stimulation consistently enhances memory function supported by the hippocampal network, thus providing robust evidence that specific memory abilities rely on specific modifiable brain networks.
    1. Neuroscience

    Brain-wide arousal signals are segregated from movement planning in the superior colliculus

    Richard Johnston, Matthew A Smith
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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. 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

    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. Neuroscience

    Locus coeruleus modulation of prefrontal dynamics during attentional switching in mice

    Marco Nigro, Lucas Silva Tortorelli ... Hongdian Yang
    Inhibiting locus coeruleus input to the medial prefrontal cortex in mice impaired task performance, affected the tuning of single cortical neurons and disrupted population dynamics and encoding capacity during attentional switching.
    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

    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

    An altered cell-specific subcellular distribution of translesion synthesis DNA polymerase kappa (POLK) in aging mouse neurons

    Mofida Abdelmageed, Premkumar Palanisamy ... Anirban Paul
    Progressive DNA polymerase kappa relocalization in aging neurons associates with increased DNA damage and identifies a novel cell type- and activity-dependent role in neuronal genome maintenance.

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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    Brown University, United States
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    Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
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    Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas, Greece
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