Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Online reinforcement learning of state representation in recurrent network: the power of random feedback and biological constraints

    Takayuki Tsurumi, Ayaka Kato ... Kenji Morita
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    1. Neuroscience

    On-Demand Seizures Facilitate Rapid Screening of Therapeutics for Epilepsy

    Yuzhang Chen, Brian Litt ... Hajime Takano
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    1. Neuroscience

    A Novel Mouse Model for LAMA2-Related Muscular Dystrophy: Analysis of Molecular Pathogenesis and Clinical Phenotype

    Dandan Tan, Yidan Liu ... Hui Xiong
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    1. Neuroscience

    Perinatal environmental enrichment affects murine neonates’ brain structure before their active engagement with environment

    Malte S Kaller, Clémence Ligneul ... Jason P Lerch
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    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Neuroscience

    Microglia replacement by ER-Hoxb8 conditionally immortalized macrophages provides insight into Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome neuropathology

    Kelsey M Nemec, Genevieve Uy ... F Chris Bennett
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    1. Neuroscience

    Establishing synthetic ribbon-type active zones in a heterologous expression system

    Rohan Kapoor, Thanh Thao Do ... Tobias Moser
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    1. Neuroscience

    3D directional tuning in the orofacial sensorimotor cortex during natural feeding and drinking

    Victoria B Hosack, Fritzie I Arce-McShane
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    1. Neuroscience

    Expansion-assisted selective plane illumination microscopy for nanoscale imaging of centimeter-scale tissues

    Adam Glaser, Jayaram Chandrashekar ... Karel Svoboda
    Large-scale microscopy combined with tissue clearing and expansion enables nanoscale imaging of centimeter scale specimens.
    1. Neuroscience

    Effects of experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic on optimistically biased belief updating

    Iraj Khalid, Orphee Morlaas ... Liane Schmidt
    Exposure to a real-life adversity, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, reduced the optimism bias typically observed in belief updating about future life events, shifting behavior toward more rational, Bayesian-like learning.
    1. Neuroscience

    Sex chromosome gene expression associated with vocal learning following hormonal manipulation in female zebra finches

    Matthew Davenport, Ha Na Choe ... Erich Jarvis
    Hormonal manipulation, laser microdissection, and bulk RNA sequencing indicate that Z chromosome dosage in the brain region HVC during development regulates the subsequent sexually dimorphic transcriptional specialization of zebra finch song nuclei.
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Making a lasting impression

    Rochelle Ackerley, Roger H Watkins
    1. Neuroscience

    Neurodevelopmental disorders

    Bruce Herring
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Taking a close look at the cerebellum

    Héloïse de Vareilles

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    Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas, Greece
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    University of California, San Diego, United States
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    State University of New York Upstate Medical University, United States
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