Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Excitatory cholecystokinin neurons in the CA3 area regulate the navigation learning and neuroplasticity

    Fengwen Huang, Abdul Baset, Stephen Temitayo Bello
    Cholecystokinin release from CA3 inputs to CA1 links local excitatory circuitry to hippocampal plasticity and spatial memory.
    1. Neuroscience

    CellCover defines marker gene panels capturing developmental progression in neocortical neural stem cell identity

    Lanlan Ji, An Wang ... Donald Geman
    In contrast to differential expression-based methods, which evaluate and select individual marker genes, CellCover identifies panels of genes that function together to define cell types.
    1. Neuroscience

    Behavioral signatures of post-decisional attention in preferential choice

    Ariel Zylberberg, Ian Krajbich, Michael N Shadlen
    Gaze patterns during value-based choice may reflect post-decision processes rather than a direct causal influence of attention on preference formation.
    1. Neuroscience

    Brain-Cognitive Gaps in relation to Dopamine and Health-related Factors: Insights from AI-Driven Functional Connectome Predictions

    Morteza Esmaeili, Erin Bjørkeli ... Alireza Salami
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Sensory adaptation and pupil-linked arousal support flexible evidence accumulation during perceptual decision making

    Kara D McGaughey, Joshua I Gold
    Flexible evidence accumulation in dynamic environments relies on multiple mechanisms, including context-dependent modulations of sensory adaptation and pupil-linked arousal.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Stable excitatory-inhibitory synapse balance despite dynamic turnover

    Krassimira A Garbett, James P Allen ... Richard C Sando
    Long-term live imaging and tracking approaches reveal a coordination between excitatory and inhibitory synapse assembly, despite continual spatiotemporal dynamics.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Active dendrites enable robust spiking computations despite timing jitter

    Thomas SJ Burger, Michael E Rule, Timothy O'Leary
    The brain computes rapidly and reliably using brief electrical impulses and likely exploits internal memory in nerve cells to achieve this more efficiently than existing computing hardware and neural networks.
    1. Neuroscience

    Thalamo-accumbal circuit adaptations following extended oxycodone abstinence

    Yanaira Alonso-Caraballo, Yan Li ... Elena H Chartoff
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Compelling
    1. Neuroscience

    Identifying molecular instructions to hard-wire a sensory neuron’s synaptic connectivity

    Júnia Vieira dos Santos, Renee Yin Yu ... Brian E Chen
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Excitation–inhibition balance controls coupling stability and network reorganization in a plastic Kuramoto model

    Satoshi Kuroki, Kenji Mizuseki
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete

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    University of Barcelona, Spain
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    Brown University, United States
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    Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, India
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