Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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Latest articles

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    The Crunchometer: A Low-Cost, Open-Source Acoustic Analysis of Feeding Microstructure

    Elvi Gil-Lievana, Benjamin Arroyo ... Ranier Gutierrez
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    BetaII-Spectrin Gaps and Patches Emerge from the Patterned Assembly of the Actin/Spectrin Membrane Skeleton in Human Motor Neuron Axons

    Nahir Guadalupe Gazal, Maria Jose Castellanos-Montiel ... Nicolás Unsain
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    Differential locus coeruleus–hippocampus interactions during offline states

    Mingyu Yang, Oxana Eschenko
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Cell-to-cell signalling mediated via CO2: activity dependent axonal CO2 production opens Cx32 in the Schwann cell paranode

    Jack Butler, Lowell Mott ... Nicholas Dale
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    1. Neuroscience

    Multi-timescale neural adaptation underlying long-term musculoskeletal reorganization

    Roland Philipp, Yuki Hara ... Kazuhiko Seki
    Long-term motor recovery after musculoskeletal alteration relies on gradually developing novel compensatory movements to overcome the rigid, maladaptive timing of stable muscle synergies.
    1. Neuroscience

    Esr1-dependent signaling and transcriptional maturation in the medial preoptic area of the hypothalamus shape the development of mating behavior during adolescence

    Koichi Hashikawa, Yoshiko Hashikawa ... Garret D Stuber
    Esr1 directs adolescent transcriptional maturation of medial preoptic GABAergic neurons, enabling the normal development of mating behavior in male and female mice.
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    Tunable Bessel beam two-photon fluorescence microscopy for high-speed volumetric imaging of brain dynamics

    Mengyang Jacky Li, Jinghui Wang ... Tian-Ming Fu
    Tunable Bessel beam two-photon fluorescence microscopy enables high-speed volumetric intravital imaging of subcellular dynamics within living mouse brains with fully tunable spatial resolution and volume coverage, allowing flexible sampling and measurements of vascular, neuronal, and immune dynamics.
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    Material damage to multielectrode arrays after electrolytic lesioning is insignificant

    Alice Tor, Stephen E Clarke ... Paul Nuyujukian
    An analysis of the largest publicly available collection of scanning electron microscopy images of explanted multielectrode arrays reveals that electrolytic lesioning causes no significant additional damage to array electrodes.
    1. Neuroscience

    Visual Working Memory Guides Attention Rhythmically

    Jiachen Lu, Yaochun Cai, Xilin Zhang
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    1. Neuroscience

    Synaptotagmin isoforms differentially regulate glutamate and GABA release in the lateral habenula

    Dustin N White, J Keenan Kushner ... Michael HB Stowell
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Stronger memories through smarter stimulation

    Justin Riddle
    1. Neuroscience

    Language acquisition in newborns

    Marcela Peña
    1. Neuroscience

    Insights into perceptual learning

    Zhong-Lin Lu

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    University of Barcelona, Spain
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    University of Oxford / University College London, United Kingdom
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    Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Boston, United States
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