Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Death receptor 6 does not regulate axon degeneration and Schwann cell injury responses during Wallerian degeneration

    Bogdan Beirowski, Haoran Huang, Elisabetta Babetto
    Rigorous analysis in two knockout mouse lines demonstrates that death receptor 6 is not required for axon degeneration or Schwann cell injury responses following peripheral nerve transection.
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    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Psilocin fosters neuroplasticity in iPSC-derived human cortical neurons

    Malin Schmidt, Anne Hoffrichter ... Philipp Koch
    Psilocin induces a durable neuroplastic state in human cortical neurons by enhancing BDNF signaling, neurite complexity, synaptogenesis, and synaptic network activity through 5-HT2A receptor-dependent mechanisms.
    1. Neuroscience

    Human exploration strategically balances approaching and avoiding uncertainty

    Yaniv Abir, Michael Neil Shadlen, Daphna Shohamy
    Strategic avoidance of uncertainty emerges under high cognitive demands, enabling faster decisions without impairing learning.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Visual information is broadcast among cortical areas in discrete channels

    Yiyi Yu, Jeffery N Stirman ... Spencer LaVere Smith
    Activity fluctuations, or noise correlations, are robust measures of neuronal connectivity and they reveal that neural circuity controls mixing of information at a granular level across millimeter-length scales.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    A deep learning pipeline for mapping in situ network-level neurovascular coupling in multi-photon fluorescence microscopy

    Matthew W Rozak, James R Mester ... Bojana Stefanovic
    A novel pipeline for analyzing longitudinal two-photon microscopy data of cerebrovasculature in mice interrogates the vasculature network before and after optogenetic stimulation, revealing new insights into their coordination.
    1. Neuroscience

    Contributions of insula and superior temporal sulcus to interpersonal guilt and responsibility in social decisions

    Maria Gädeke, Tom Eric Willems ... Johannes Schultz
    Being responsible for a partner's adverse outcomes is associated with anterior insula activation, while the superior temporal sulcus tracks prediction errors for the partner's reward resulting from the participant's decisions.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Sibling chimerism among microglia in marmosets

    Ricardo CH del Rosario, Fenna M Krienen ... Steven A McCarroll
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    • Fundamental
    • Compelling
    1. Neuroscience

    Overt visual attention modulates decision-related signals in ventral and dorsal medial prefrontal cortex

    Blair RK Shevlin, Rachael Gwinn ... Ian Krajbich
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
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    1. Neuroscience

    Dissociable after-effects of prosocial acts: Effort is costly for others but valued for self

    Ya Zheng, Rumeng Tang
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid

Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Chronic neuropathic pain

    Geoffroy Laumet
    1. Neuroscience

    Encoding time in working memory

    Dhruv Grover, Marissa L Heintschel

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  1. Sofia J Araújo
    University of Barcelona, Spain
  2. Laura Colgin
    The University of Texas at Austin Center for Learning and Memory, United States
  3. Jonathan Roiser
    University College London, United Kingdom
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