Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    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
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Neuroscience

    Prolonged oscillating preoptic area kisspeptin neuron activity underlies the preovulatory luteinizing hormone surge in mice

    Ziyue Zhou, Cheng-Yu Huang, Allan E Herbison
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Fundamental
    • Compelling
    1. Neuroscience

    Beyond the Focus of Expansion: Retinal curl as a functional signal for heading estimation

    Kontessa I Zorpala, Joan López-Moliner
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Serotonergic modulation of motor subspace dynamics drives a sleep-independent quiescent state

    Kexin Qi, Yuming Chai ... Quan Wen
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Audiovisual congruency drives confidence in presence and absence

    Perrine Porte, Matan Mazor ... Louise Goupil
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Long-range neural pathways for octopus chemotactile processing revealed from periphery-to-brain by centimeter-field microCT

    Andrew Sugarman, Daniel Vanselow ... Keith C Cheng
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Gene specificity landscapes for comparative transcriptomic analysis across tissues, cell types, and species

    Erik Bot, Jose Davila-Velderrain
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Cross-Species BAC Transgenesis Reveals Long-Range Regulation Drives Variation in Brain Oxytocin Receptor Expression and Social Behaviors

    Mina Tsukamoto, Luis AE Nagai ... Qi Zhang
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    A stress-activated neuronal ensemble in the supramammillary nucleus produces anxiety-like behavior in male mice

    Jinming Zhang, Kexin Yu ... Jing Han
    Stress-recruited neurons can cause anxiety-like avoidance and increase peripheral corticosterone concentration.
    1. Neuroscience

    Endogenous precision of the number sense

    Arthur Prat-Carrabin, Michael Woodford
    A theory of efficient coding wherein the precision of representations is endogenous, task-dependent, and prior-dependent predicts scaling laws for imprecision and is supported by numerosity perception experiments with humans.
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Cocaine disrupts "hidden states" in the brain

    Margo Le, Ronald Keiflin
    1. Neuroscience

    Rethinking how memories are retrieved

    Rocco Pizzarelli, Marilena Griguoli
    1. Neuroscience

    Psychedelic drugs and neuroplasticity

    Jessica L Maltman, Javier González-Maeso

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    Andrew J King
    University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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    Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
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    University of California, San Diego, United States
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