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Optogenetic and electrophysiological experiments show how a behaviorally relevant 'feedback' pathway from auditory cortex controls neural activity in the inferior colliculus, an auditory midbrain region important for processing complex time-varying sounds such as speech.

Hippocampal learning in dentate gyrus follows a U-shaped function, with moderate, but not high or low, overlap between representations leading to differentiation of neural patterns.

Detailed studies of excitation contraction coupling allowed determination of quantitative relationships between resting potential, generation of action potentials, conduction of action potentials, and generation of Ca²⁺ transients in individual mouse skeletal muscle fibers.

The anterior cingulate cortex provides predictive relationships between the context and the predator threat and influences the acquisition and expression of fear memory to predatory threat.

Endogenous µ- and δ-opioid receptors do not form stable heterodimers in cholinergic interneurons.

A continuum of ripple oscillations in human anterior temporal lobe reflects the dynamic synchrony of populations of neurons during memory retrieval.

Presynaptic plasticity in simulated neural networks with a simple biologically plausible learning rule improves metabolic efficiency and lifelong learning capabilities.

Mu and delta opioid receptors signal independently in hippocampal parvalbumin interneurons to regulate somato-dendritic excitability and synaptic transmission, with the delta opioid receptor dominating the response to enkephalin.

Consistent spatial clustering and fine-scale neural tuning to different face parts were found within the face-processing regions, which may be the neural implementation of efficient neural computation for face identification.

3D serial electron microscopy reveals that individual dopamine axons in the nucleus accumbens contain different varicosity types based on their vesicle contents, rarely make synapses, and undergo major structural plasticity in response to cocaine.