Synthetic torpor induced in a species that does not naturally hibernate protects the heart from ischaemia-reperfusion injury, pointing to a novel translatable strategy for improving outcomes after myocardial infarction.
Loss of Shank3 destabilizes neuronal activity in the taste cortex and impairs aversive taste learning in mice, revealing how autism-associated genes compromise flexible sensory encoding in sensory cortices to influence behavior.
Tamara Gedankien, Jennifer Kriegel ... Joshua Jacobs
Cholinergic blockade via scopolamine reveals that hippocampal theta oscillations are essential for encoding rather than retrieval, suggesting these rhythms represent a dedicated neural state for memory formation.
