Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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Latest articles

    1. Neuroscience

    Afadin-deficient retinas exhibit severe neuronal lamination defects but preserve visual functions

    Akiko Ueno, Konan Sakuta ... Chieko Koike
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Post-ejaculatory Inhibition of Female Sexual Drive via Heterogeneous Neuronal Ensembles in the Medial Preoptic Area

    Kentaro K Ishii, Koichi Hashikawa ... Garret D Stuber
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Neuroscience

    Brain-Cognitive Gaps in relation to Dopamine and Health-related Factors: Insights from AI-Driven Functional Connectome Predictions

    Morteza Esmaeili, Erin Beate Bjørkeli ... Alireza Salami
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Oxytocin receptor controls promiscuity and development in prairie voles

    Ruchira Sharma, Kristen M Berendzen ... Devanand S Manoli
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Novel and optimized mouse behavior enabled by fully autonomous HABITS: Home-cage Assisted Behavioral Innovation and Testing System

    Bowen Yu, Penghai Li ... Yaoyao Hao
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Context-Dependent Modulations of Subthalamo-Cortical Synchronization during Rapid Reversals of Movement Direction in Parkinson’s Disease

    Lucie Winkler, Markus Butz ... Jan Hirschmann
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    A contextual fear conditioning paradigm in head-fixed mice exploring virtual reality

    Seetha Krishnan, Can Dong ... Mark Sheffield
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Integration of sensory and fear memories in the rat medial temporal lobe: advancing research by Wong et al. (2019)

    Francesca S Wong, Alina B Thomas ... Nathan M Holmes
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Sleep need driven oscillation of glutamate synaptic phenotype

    Kaspar E Vogt, Ashwinikumar Kulkarni ... Robert W Greene
    Sleep's role to down-scale glutamate, excitatory, frontal cortical synapses is extended to include an up-scaling of metaplastic LTP potential, in recovery from prolonged waking induced saturation of this LTP potential.
    1. Neuroscience

    Specific presynaptic functions require distinct Drosophila Cav2 splice isoforms

    Christopher Bell, Lukas Kilo ... Stefanie Ryglewski
    Mutually exclusive splicing of two exon pairs of the only Drosophila Cav2 homolog cacophony mediates functional diversity of Cav2 channels in Drosophila.

Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Chronic pain and memory loss

    Suelen Pereira, Ivan Tomsic ... Mychael V Lourenco
    1. Neuroscience

    Reversing opioid overdoses

    Jill R Turner, Jocelyn Martin

Senior editors

  1. Laura Colgin
    The University of Texas at Austin Center for Learning and Memory, United States
  2. Merritt Maduke
    Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
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    Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas, Greece
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