Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    Age-Related Decline in BBB Function is More Pronounced in Males than Females

    Xingfeng Shao, Qinyang Shou ... Danny JJ Wang
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    Targeting resident astrocytes attenuates neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury

    Qing Zhao, Yanjing Zhu ... Ning Xie
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    Disruption of awake sharp-wave ripples does not affect memorization of locations in repeated-acquisition spatial memory tasks

    Lies Deceuninck, Fabian Kloosterman
    Hippocampal sharp-wave ripples are not required for rats to successfully perform spatial tasks that rely on memorization of locations at short timescales.
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    Exposure Therapy: Enhancing fear extinction

    Sydney Trask, Nicole C Ferrara
    Gradually reducing a source of fear during extinction treatments may weaken negative memories in the long term.
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    Tissue-specific O-GlcNAcylation profiling identifies substrates in translational machinery in Drosophila mushroom body contributing to olfactory learning

    Haibin Yu, Dandan Liu ... Kai Yuan
    Brain region-specific profiling of O-GlcNAcylation interactome in Drosophila mushroom body suggests that hypo-O-GlcNAcylation impacts cognitive function by regulating translational activity.
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    A neuronal least-action principle for real-time learning in cortical circuits

    Walter Senn, Dominik Dold ... Mihai A. Petrovici
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    Deciphering molecular heterogeneity and dynamics of human hippocampal neural stem cells at different ages and injury states

    Junjun Yao, Shaoxing Dai ... Tianqing Li
    A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas reveals the molecular signatures and trajectory dynamics of the neurogenic lineage in the human hippocampus during neonatal development, adulthood, aging, and after injury.
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    Cardiac afferent signals can facilitate visual dominance in binocular rivalry

    John P. Veillette, Fan Gao, Howard C. Nusbaum

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    Beijing Normal University, China
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    The University of Texas at Austin Center for Learning and Memory, United States
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    Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Netherlands
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