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    Extinction recall of fear memories formed before stress is not affected despite higher theta activity in the amygdala

    Mohammed Mostafizur Rahman, Ashutosh Shukla, Sumantra Chattarji
    When the fear-enhancing effects of prior exposure to stress are absent, the expression of fear reflects normal neural activity in the medial prefrontal cortex, not stress-induced hyperactivity in the amygdala.
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    Timing of the reticular lamina and basilar membrane vibration in living gerbil cochleae

    Wenxuan He, David Kemp, Tianying Ren
    Heterodyne low-coherence interferometry demonstrates that the latency of the sound-induced reticular lamina vibration is significantly greater than that of the basilar membrane vibration in living gerbil cochleae.
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    Manipulating midbrain dopamine neurons and reward-related behaviors with light-controllable nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

    Romain Durand-de Cuttoli, Sarah Mondoloni ... Alexandre Mourot
    In vivo deconstruction of reward-related behaviors with circuit and pharmacological specificity using designer, light-controllable nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.
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    A neural-level model of spatial memory and imagery

    Andrej Bicanski, Neil Burgess
    The BB model explains spatial cognition in terms of interactions between specific neuronal populations, providing a common computational framework for the human neuropsychological and in vivo animal electrophysiological literatures.
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    Inhibition gates supralinear Ca2+ signaling in Purkinje cell dendrites during practiced movements

    Michael A Gaffield, Matthew J M Rowan ... Jason M Christie
    In behaving mice, inhibition from molecular layer interneurons attenuates excitation of Purkinje cells by parallel fibers and suppresses their ability to enhance climbing fiber-triggered dendritic Ca2+ responses.
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    Stepwise wiring of the Drosophila olfactory map requires specific Plexin B levels

    Jiefu Li, Ricardo Guajardo ... Liqun Luo
    PlexB plays a multifaceted role in instructing the assembly of the Drosophila olfactory circuit through temporally-regulated expression patterns and expression level-dependent effects.
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    PIP2 depletion promotes TRPV4 channel activity in mouse brain capillary endothelial cells

    Osama F Harraz, Thomas A Longden ... Mark T Nelson
    TRPV4 channels in brain capillaries are suppressed by the phosphoinositide PIP2 and activated by receptor agonists implicated in neurovascular coupling.
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    Acute control of the sleep switch in Drosophila reveals a role for gap junctions in regulating behavioral responsiveness

    Michael Troup, Melvyn HW Yap ... Bruno van Swinderen
    Optogenetic activation reveals a larger role for the fly brain 'sleep switch' neurons in controlling both waking and sleeping behavioral responsiveness, partly via a parallel channel involving innexin6 electrical synapses.
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    Non-invasive imaging of CSF-mediated brain clearance pathways via assessment of perivascular fluid movement with diffusion tensor MRI

    Ian F Harrison, Bernard Siow ... Jack A Wells
    The first non-invasive technique to assess the action of brain clearance mechanisms, driven by the perivascular inflow of cerebrospinal fluid, has been developed using magnetic resonance imaging.
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    A cell autonomous torsinA requirement for cholinergic neuron survival and motor control

    Samuel S Pappas, Jay Li ... William T Dauer
    Conditional deletion of the DYT1 dystonia protein torsinA causes selective cell autonomous neurodegeneration of striatal and brainstem cholinergic neurons, and severe motor behavioral abnormalities.