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Neuroscience

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Latest articles

    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Removal of developmentally regulated microexons has a minimal impact on larval zebrafish brain morphology and function

    Caleb CS Calhoun, Mary ES Capps ... Summer B Thyme
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    CellSeg3D: self-supervised 3D cell segmentation for light-sheet microscopy

    Cyril Achard, Timokleia Kousi ... Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    1. Neuroscience

    Activity-dependent lateral inhibition enables the synchronization of olfactory bulb projection neurons

    Tal Dalal, Rafi Haddad
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    1. Neuroscience

    The satiety hormone cholecystokinin gates reproduction in fish by controlling gonadotropin secretion

    Lian Hollander-Cohen, Omer Cohen ... Berta Levavi-Sivan
    Genetic loss-of-function approaches and functional calcium imaging reveal cholecystokinin as the primary regulator of follicle-stimulating hormone in zebrafish, redefining our understanding of gonadotropin regulation in vertebrates.
    1. Neuroscience

    Bridging the gap between presynaptic hair cell function and neural sound encoding

    Lina María Jaime Tobón, Tobias Moser
    Synaptic diversity in the ear's inner hair cells significantly empowers sound encoding to enable our processing of sounds across a broad range of intensities.
    1. Neuroscience

    CaBP1 and 2 enable sustained CaV1.3 calcium currents and synaptic transmission in inner hair cells

    David Oestreicher, Shashank Chepurwar ... Tina Pangrsic
    Analysis of Cabp1/2 double knockout phyenotype and rescue by viral delivery of Cabp2 identifies the interplay between two CaBPs to promote sustained synaptic transmission at the inner hair cell synapses.
    1. Neuroscience

    A multisite validation of brain white matter pathways of resilience to chronic back pain

    Mina Mišić, Noah Lee ... Herta Flor
    The structural integrity of the right superior longitudinal fasciculus was identified as a neuroimaging predictor of chronic back pain, with potential for clinical translation.
    1. Neuroscience

    Evaluating hippocampal replay without a ground truth

    Masahiro Takigawa, Marta Huelin Gorriz ... Daniel Bendor
    A novel tool enables cross-checking the quality of replay events and evaluating the effectiveness of a given replay detection method in the absence of a ground truth.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    The effects of 17α-estradiol treatment on endocrine system revealed by single-nucleus transcriptomic sequencing of hypothalamus

    Lei Li, Guanghao Wu ... Yinchuan Li
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    1. Neuroscience

    Differential destinations, dynamics, and functions of high- and low-order features in the feedback signal during object processing

    Wenhao Hou, Sheng He, Jiedong Zhang
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    A close look at locomotion

    Arthur D Kuo
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Taking a close look at the cerebellum

    Héloïse de Vareilles
    1. Neuroscience
    Someone typing at a laptop wearing rings and a smart watch.

    An author from the first revised Reviewed Preprint shares her experience

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    University of Barcelona, Spain
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    Peking University, China
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    National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, United States
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