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Visual and prefrontal cortex excitability predict individual differences in visual imagery strength, and modulating excitability in these cortical regions causally alters the strength of visual imagery.

A simple, computationally efficient method provides spatiotemporally precise optogenetic perturbations in freely walking Drosophila, revealing the asymmetries and region-specificity of behavioral programs evoked by activating mechanosensory and chemosensory neurons.

The pseudokinase protein SCYL1 is an evolutionarily conserved enhancer of Slo2 potassium channel activity.

Fixed, intact animals of C. elegans can be physically expanded with high isotropy, to enable super-resolved imaging of general proteins and nucleic acids throughout the organism, on conventional microscopes.

Identification of the underlying molecular gene-regulatory mechanisms by which the histone deacetylase complex MiDAC controls neurite outgrowth.

Perceived imminence of threat and resulting intensity of defensive responses during serial compound stimulus conditioning are determined by auditory stimulus salience, not cue sequence as recently reported.

Eliminating the calcium-binding protein Doc2b does not alter transmission at a mature synapse under physiological conditions, counter to the prevailing view of Doc2b based on cultured neurons.

Pdm3, a transcription factor, coordinates an early developmental program that prepares the brain to later execute high levels of juvenile adult sleep.

A transcription factor helps young flies to sleep longer by delaying the maturation of a neural network that controls sleep.

CNGA3 is a cold-potentiated ion channel that confers cold sensitivity to mouse hypothalamic neurons, whereas CNGA3 from hibernating ground squirrels is cold-insensitive.