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A novel approach to studying anxiety reveals that learned anxiety and diazepam treatment have unique roles on prefrontal cortex and ventral tegmental area activity.

In the cochlea, repressor element 1-silencing transcription factor (REST) regulates the expression levels of K_v7.4 and alterations of REST functions result in progressive hearing loss.

A novel, non-auditory learning paradigm reveals that songbirds can modify their vocal output based on somatosensory signals and that a common set of brain pathways underlies both this form of vocal learning and auditory-guided vocal learning.

A new method for analyzing continuous psychophysics experiments estimates not only perceptual uncertainty from tracking tasks but also action variability, intrinsic costs, and subjective internal models.

Human neuroimaging with time-evolving network analysis reveals dynamic interactions among multiple functional brain networks in response to sustained pain.

A new binding mode between Rabphilin 3A and SNAP-25 enables efficient SNARE complex assembly via inducing a conformation change in SNAP-25 SNARE motif.

A 7-dehydrocholesterol-derived oxysterol in SLOS was found to profoundly impact neurogenesis during cortical development by interacting with glucocorticoid receptor, which points to new therapeutic approaches for SLOS by targeting the activities of this oxysterol.

Electrophysiological and pharmacological data provide evidence that the medial prefrontal cortex is essential for rats to learn a timing task, becoming unnecessary later, while the dorsal striatum does not play a role initially, taking over when animals become proficient.

Invasive recordings from human dorsal posterior cingulate cortex show neural population responses occur for only executive tasks, while single neuron responses occur for specific executive or episodic cognitive tasks.

In the zebrafish spinal cord, mixed synapses contribute to neuronal connectivity and resting excitability, which helps explain violations of the well-known 'size principle' of recruitment.