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Degenerating motor neurons compensate for energetic deficits by upregulating glycolysis in flies and humans, with increased glucose availability improving locomotor function and lifespan in flies.

Synapses employ distinct acute and chronic signaling processes in order to maintain physiologically appropriate levels of function.

The Drosophila lateral horn, a higher olfactory brain area, contains >165 genetically defined cell types with stereotyped odour responses across animals and improved odor categorisation compared with their inputs.

Inhibiting ventral tegmental dopamine neurons, or their inputs to nucleus accumbens, disrupts cue-motivated reward seeking in a manner that depends on the microstructure of behavior.

Subtraction analysis using novel Orexin-Flp mice isolated physiological importance of orexin peptides.

Functional identification of GABAergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area as a important neuronal subpopulation regulating non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep in mice.

Despite ongoing rewiring and continuous turnover of synapses, a computational model shows that memories can maintain and even strengthen their connectivity by self-reactivating during periods without sensory input.

Abrupt sounds boost coincident visual cortex responses which could help localization of sudden audio-visual events.

Embryonic PI3K-Yap activity regulates apical adhesion and proliferation of neural progenitors lining the lateral ventricular surface, to maintain the smooth, non-folded mouse brain and to prevent developmental hydrocephalus.

Input from the ventral hippocampus to the medial prefrontal cortex regulates social memory in wild type mice and atypically-strengthened input causes social memory dysfunction in Rett syndrome mice.