Oxytocin neuron projections from two brain regions involved in parental care regulate both parental care and infanticidal behaviors in virgin mandarin voles.
Quynh Anh Thi Nguyen, Andrea Rocha ... Sachiko Haga-Yamanaka
A molecular genetics study reveals an accessory olfactory-to-hypothalamic circuit in mice that optimizes defensive behaviors according to the imminence of predator threats.
Activation of oxytocin (OT) neurons in the paraventricular nucleus or their projections to medial prefrontal cortex or periphery OT administration facilitated pup caring and inhibited infanticide, while inhibitions of these neurons and projections promoted infanticide.
Matthieu K Chardon, Y Curtis Wang ... Charles J Heckman
Estimating the organization of supraspinal input to motoneurons in humans is not currently possible, but a promising reverse engineering technique has been developed using large-scale supercomputing and computational neuroscience.
Adlin Abramian, Rein I Hoogstraaten ... Matthijs Verhage
Live imaging at single-vesicle resolution reveals rabphilin-3A as the first identified negative regulator of neuropeptide release in mammalian neurons.
The hyperpolarization-activated inward current plays an important role in regulating both smooth transitory responses and persistent increases in pyloric frequency during temperature fluctuations in Cancer borealis.
Johannes Oppermann, Andrey Rozenberg ... Peter Hegemann
Engineered anion-conducting channelrhodopsins with enhanced red-light sensitivity and accelerated kinetics enable precise, low-intensity optical silencing of neurons, advancing optogenetic control in neuroscience research.
Intact and local emotional biological motion exerted distinct influences on pupil responses, wherein the emotional modulation observed in intact biological motion is linked to individual autistic traits.
Ilya A Rybak, Natalia A Shevtsova ... Alain Frigon
Spinal circuits performing speed- and context-dependent control of locomotion in mammals can operate in different regimes with prevailing role of central mechanisms, supraspinal signals, or sensory feedback.
Whole-brain light-sheet imaging of axons segmented by trained convolutional networks reveals distinct projection patterns of genetically defined classes of neurons in primary and secondary whisker-related somatosensory cortices.
