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Fingertip tactile neurons collectively encode the skin's viscoelastic state alongside current touch, potentially enabling the brain to better interpret forces during manipulation.

Touch-sensitive neurons in the fingertips take previous physical contacts into account when relaying tactile information to the brain.

Ferumoxytol-enhanced MRI enables high-resolution, laminar mapping of cerebral blood volume in the primate brain, validating core neurovascular features and advancing noninvasive tools for neurometabolic imaging.

A computational model shows how synaptic plasticity shapes spontaneous activity to encode the transition statistics of sensory experience.

A temporally stable and cell-type-specific genetic driver library provides the means to access and manipulate neuronal lineages in the fly nervous system during development and adulthood.

Caspase-3 activation links synapse weakening to synapse elimination.

A dynamic DNA methylation 'barcode' on the X chromosome can distinguish thousands of individual adult male neurons and may record aspects of their development.

Heterozygosity for Trio variants leads to overlapping but distinct impacts on behavior, neuronal structure, and synaptic transmission, including newly characterized defects in presynaptic function.

Experiments in mice reveal how three rare mutations in a gene called TRIO can lead to different neurodevelopmental outcomes.

In male mandarin voles, D1 and D2 medium spiny neurons within the nucleus accumbens shell exert distinct influences on pair bond formation.