Both genetic and pharmacological studies reveal an essential role for the CRF₁ receptor in social behavior deficits induced by a single morphine administration in male, but not in female, mice.

With the new Ankyrin-G-GFP reporter line, researchers can visualize and study neuronal compartments critical for signal transduction without affecting neuronal activity and subcellular integrity of the cells under investigation.

In feedforward networks with random connectivity, connection motifs underlying the detection of short clusters and activity sequences are likely to converge on a subset of postsynaptic neurons purely by chance.