Niki Anthoney, Lucy Tainton-Heap ... Bruno van Swinderen
Different methods for inducing sleep in Drosophila flies may be promoting distinct sleep stages with different functions when brain activity and gene expression are compared.
Neurons in the mouse hippocampus, known as place cells, surprisingly show movie-fields, where they reliably encode distinct segments of a black-and-white, silent movie, even without any task demand or rewards.
Dysmyelination of GABAergic hippocampal interneurons causes mislocalization of axonal ionic channels and disturbs their intrinsic physiological properties, suggesting that it may contribute to cognitive deficits observed in multiple sclerosis patients.
A computational neuroanatomy analysis of cerebellar and cerebral folding in 56 mammalian species reveals groups of highly variable 'diverse' phenotypes, and strongly conserved 'stable' phenotypes, providing new insights into the diversity, evolution, and influence of cortical folding on brain organisation.
Advanced glycation end-products (compounds which make the food appetizing and aromatic) intricately modulate organism’s homeostatic and hedonistic signaling pathways thereby inducing preferential consumption of excess nutrients offering preliminary insights into overconsumption of modern-day processed food.
