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Blindness triggers a reorganization of the visual and auditory cortices in the brain.

Early and late visual deprivation trigger a redeployment mechanism that reallocate part of the processing typically tagging the preserved senses (i.e. the temporal cortex for auditory stimulation) to the occipital cortex deprived of its most salient visual input.

Physiological analysis reveals that during voluntary contraction Ia afferent input have a lesser facilitatory effect on motor neurons in humans with chronic incomplete spinal cord injury compared with control subjects.

The age-dependent shift of prefrontal excitation-inhibition (E-I) ratio toward inhibition causes sparser and decorrelated activity, while its impairment might relate to neurodevelopmental disorders.

Structural, functional, and genetic analyses reveal how kinesin-4 motor KLP-12 precisely modulates the curvature of the microtubule plus-end to inhibit the microtubule dynamics for achieving the proper length control of axons.

A viral heliorhodopsin from Emiliania huxleyi virus 202 (V2HeR3) is a light-activated proton transporter, which has the potential to depolarize the host cells by light, possibly to overcome the host defense mechanisms or to prevent superinfection.

Systematic analysis of behavioral maturation in the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo reveals a stereotyped developmental progression, including rhythmic behavioral quiescence elicited by a sleep-promoting neuron (RIS) releasing somnogenic peptides (FLP-11).

Molecular, laminar, and regional characterization in combination with classical and conditional tracing techniques reveal that medial prefrontal cortical neurons innervating the nucleus accumbens and the ventral tegmental area form distinct populations.

A review of a neuronal circuit architecture that helps us to learn about rewarding events and then to use that information to support adaptive decision making.

A new tool enables electrophysiological isolation of input-specific neurotransmission in a powerful model glutamatergic circuit.