Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Visual information is broadcast among cortical areas in discrete channels

    Yiyi Yu, Jeffery N Stirman ... Spencer LaVere Smith
    Activity fluctuations, or noise correlations, are robust measures of neuronal connectivity and they reveal that neural circuity controls mixing of information at a granular level across millimeter-length scales.
    1. Neuroscience

    Contributions of insula and superior temporal sulcus to interpersonal guilt and responsibility in social decisions

    Maria Gädeke, Tom Eric Willems ... Johannes Schultz
    Being responsible for a partner's adverse outcomes is associated with anterior insula activation, while the superior temporal sulcus tracks prediction errors for the partner's reward resulting from the participant's decisions.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    A deep learning pipeline for mapping in situ network-level neurovascular coupling in multi-photon fluorescence microscopy

    Matthew W Rozak, James R Mester ... Bojana Stefanovic
    A novel pipeline for analyzing longitudinal two-photon microscopy data of cerebrovasculature in mice interrogates the vasculature network before and after optogenetic stimulation, revealing new insights into their coordination.
    1. Neuroscience

    Overt visual attention modulates decision-related signals in ventral and dorsal medial prefrontal cortex

    Blair RK Shevlin, Rachael Gwinn ... Ian Krajbich
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    • Important
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    1. Neuroscience

    Development of Auditory and Spontaneous Movement Responses to Music over the First Postnatal Year

    Trinh Nguyen, Félix Bigand ... Giacomo Novembre
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    • Important
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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Sibling chimerism among microglia in marmosets

    Ricardo CH del Rosario, Fenna M Krienen ... Steven A McCarroll
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    • Fundamental
    • Compelling
    1. Neuroscience

    Dissociable after-effects of prosocial acts: Effort is costly for others but valued for self

    Ya Zheng, Rumeng Tang
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Alcohol attenuates CRF-induced excitatory effects from the extended amygdala to dorsostriatal cholinergic interneurons

    Amanda Essoh, Xueyi Xie ... Jun Wang
    Stress-related corticotropin-releasing factor signaling directly modulates striatal cholinergic circuits, and alcohol exposure disrupts this control, revealing a circuit mechanism linking stress, alcohol use, and impaired behavioral flexibility.
    1. Neuroscience

    Control of innate olfactory valence by segregated cortical amygdala circuits

    James R Howe, Chung Lung Chan ... Cory M Root
    Topographically distributed plCoA populations direct innate olfactory responses by signaling to divergent valence-specific targets, linking upstream olfactory identity to downstream valence behaviors, through a population code.
    1. Neuroscience

    Dynamic regulation of mRNA acetylation at synapses by spatial memory in mouse hippocampus

    Hai-Qian Zhou, Zhen Zhu ... Dong-Min Yin
    NAT10-mediated mRNA acetylation links neural activity to local protein synthesis at synapses, influencing memory consolidation.

Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Chronic neuropathic pain

    Geoffroy Laumet
    1. Neuroscience

    Encoding time in working memory

    Dhruv Grover, Marissa L Heintschel

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    University of Oxford / University College London, United Kingdom
  2. Claude Desplan
    New York University, United States
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    National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, United States
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