Neuroscience

Neuroscience

eLife reviews research including brain function, neuronal circuits, synapses, sensory processing and motor pattern generation. Learn more about what we review and sign up for the latest research.
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Latest articles

    1. Neuroscience

    Regional response to light illuminance across the human hypothalamus

    Islay Campbell, Roya Sharifpour ... Gilles Vandewalle
    1. Neuroscience

    Point of View: Five interdisciplinary tensions and opportunities in neurodiversity research

    Olujolagbe Layinka, Luca D Hargitai ... Florence YN Leung
    Improving our understanding of autism, ADHD, dyslexia and other neurodevelopmental conditions requires collaborations between genetics, psychiatry, the social sciences and other fields of research.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Antipsychotic-induced epigenomic reorganization in frontal cortex of individuals with schizophrenia

    Bohan Zhu, Richard I Ainsworth ... Javier González-Maeso
    Age and antipsychotic treatment effects on chromatin organization in the frontal cortex of schizophrenia subjects.
    1. Neuroscience

    Experience transforms crossmodal object representations in the anterior temporal lobes

    Aedan Yue Li, Natalia Ladyka-Wojcik ... Morgan Barense
    1. Neuroscience

    Reactivation strength during cued recall is modulated by graph distance within cognitive maps

    Simon Kern, Juliane Nagel ... Gordon B. Feld
    1. Neuroscience

    Adult neurogenesis through glial transdifferentiation in a CNS injury paradigm

    Sergio Casas-Tintó, Nuria García-Guillen, Maria Losada-Pérez
    1. Neuroscience

    Somatotopic organization among parallel sensory pathways that promote a grooming sequence in Drosophila

    Katharina Eichler, Stefanie Hampel ... Andrew M Seeds
    A synaptic resolution somatotopic map of nearly all mechanosensory neurons on the Drosophila head that individually elicit aimed grooming of specific head locations and collectively elicit a head grooming sequence.
    1. Neuroscience

    Species -shared and -unique gyral peaks on human and macaque brains

    Songyao Zhang, Tuo Zhang ... Tianming Liu
    Having compared cross-species cortical folding patterns between humans and macaques, it is shown that 'Gyral Peaks' can stably exist across different species.

Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Coping with fear

    Sydney Trask, Nicole C Ferrara
    1. Neuroscience

    How to pause fertility

    Aleisha M Moore

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  1. Sofia J Araújo
    University of Barcelona, Spain
  2. Christian Büchel
    University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
  3. Andrew J King
    Andrew J King
    University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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