Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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Latest articles

    1. Neuroscience

    Early-life experience reorganizes neuromodulatory regulation of stage-specific behavioral responses and individuality dimensions during development

    Reemy Ali Nasser, Yuval Harel, Shay Stern
    Early-life experiences and neuromodulatory mechanisms shape discontinuous behavioral plasticity across developmental stages and modify the spectrum of long-term individuality patterns within isogenic populations.
    1. Neuroscience

    Adolescent neurostimulation of dopamine circuit reverses genetic deficits in frontal cortex function

    Surjeet Mastwal, Xinjian Li ... Kuan Hong Wang
    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    Instantaneous antidepressant effect of lateral habenula deep brain stimulation in rats studied with functional MRI

    Gen Li, Binshi Bo ... Xiaojie Duan
    Electrical stimulation at the lateral habenula causes an instantaneous remission of depressive symptoms in two rat models, with more medial stimulation sites exhibiting greater antidepressant effects than more lateral stimulation sites, as revealed by functional MRI studies.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    APOE expression and secretion are modulated by mitochondrial dysfunction

    Meghan E Wynne, Oluwaseun Ogunbona ... Victor Faundez
    Current models of Alzheimer's disease that put mitochondria as an endpoint of disease should be reconsidered because genetic defects affecting mitochondria by themselves can also regulate Alzheimer’s disease risk factor apolipoprotein E (APOE) expression and secretion.
    1. Neuroscience

    The nematode worm C. elegans chooses between bacterial foods as if maximizing economic utility

    Abraham Katzen, Hui-Kuan Chung ... Shawn R Lockery
    A worm with a nervous system of only 302 neurons satisfies the necessary and sufficient conditions for value-based decision making.
    1. Neuroscience

    Spatiotemporal neural dynamics of object recognition under uncertainty in humans

    Yuan-hao Wu, Ella Podvalny, Biyu J He
    Combining 7 Tesla fMRI and MEG data collected during a challenging visual recognition task revealed distinct neural representational formats in ventral visual and frontoparietal regions, and the emergence of recognition-related signals prior to category-related information.
    1. Neuroscience

    Somatotopic organization among parallel sensory pathways that promote a grooming sequence in Drosophila

    Katharina Eichler, Stefanie Hampel ... Andrew M. Seeds
    1. Neuroscience

    The scheduling of adolescence with Netrin-1 and UNC5C

    Daniel Hoops, Robert F. Kyne ... Cecilia Flores

Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Persuasive communication devices

    Olivier Corneille, Jo Havemann ... Leon D Lotter
    1. Neuroscience

    A groom with a view

    Jeffrey E Markowitz
    1. Neuroscience

    The complexities of touch

    Stephanie D Preston, Rosa Muñoz

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    The University of Texas at Austin Center for Learning and Memory, United States
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    Brandeis University, United States
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    State University of New York Upstate Medical University, United States
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