Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Odors drive feeding through gustatory receptor neurons in Drosophila

    Hong-ping Wei, Thomas Ka Chung Lam, Hokto Kazama
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Neural Representation of Time across Complementary Reference Frames

    Yangwen Xu, Nicola Sartorato ... Roberto Bottini
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Cestode larvae excite host neuronal circuits via glutamatergic signalling

    Anja de Lange, Hayley Tomes ... Joseph V Raimondo
    Parasitic tapeworm larvae release glutamate and other excitatory molecules that can directly excite brain neurons.
    1. Neuroscience

    The interplay between homeostatic synaptic scaling and homeostatic structural plasticity maintains the robust firing rate of neural networks

    Han Lu, Sandra Diaz-Pier ... Andreas Vlachos
    A biphasic structural plasticity rule interacts with homeostatic synaptic scaling to maintain firing rate homeostasis in neural networks.
    1. Neuroscience

    Multifaceted role of galanin in brain excitability

    Nicolas N Rieser, Milena Ronchetti ... Stephan CF Neuhauss
    The neuropeptide galanin modulates whole-brain activity and stress responses in zebrafish, revealing a complex, receptor-dependent role in seizure regulation with implications for epilepsy, and related neurological disorders.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Modular DNA Barcoding of Nanobodies Enables Multiplexed in situ Protein Imaging and High-throughput Biomolecule Detection

    Shilin Zhong, Ruiyu Wang ... Minmin Luo
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    • Fundamental
    • Compelling
    1. Neuroscience

    A neural network model that generates salt concentration memory-dependent chemotaxis in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Masakatsu Hironaka, Tomonari Sumi
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Responses to membrane potential-modulating ionic solutions measured by magnetic resonance imaging of cultured cells and in vivo rat cortex

    Kyeongseon Min, Sungkwon Chung ... Jang-Yeon Park
    Magnetic resonance imaging, through its sensitivity to ionic environments that modulate membrane potential, enables noninvasive assessment of biological systems.
    1. Neuroscience

    Intrinsic dynamic shapes responses to external stimulation in the human brain

    Maximilian Nentwich, Marcin Leszczynski ... Lucas C Parra
    A new computational model improves estimation of Granger connectivity by removing spurious effects of external inputs, and estimation of linear encoding models by removing spurious effects of recurrent connections.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Assemblies, synapse clustering, and network topology interact with plasticity to explain structure-function relationships of the cortical connectome

    András Ecker, Daniela Egas Santander ... Michael W Reimann
    A new framework for exploring the mechanisms underlying learning in cortical microcircuits is established.
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Making a lasting impression

    Rochelle Ackerley, Roger H Watkins
    1. Neuroscience

    Neurodevelopmental disorders

    Bruce Herring
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Taking a close look at the cerebellum

    Héloïse de Vareilles

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    Peking University, China
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    Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
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    University College London, United Kingdom
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