Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Food intake enhances hippocampal sharp wave-ripples

    Ekin Kaya, Evan Wegienka ... Gideon Rothschild
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    1. Neuroscience

    Shaping the physical world to our ends: The left PF technical-cognition area

    François Osiurak, Giovanni Federico ... Mathieu Lesourd
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    1. Neuroscience

    Dynamic Gamma Modulation of Hippocampal Place Cells Predominates Development of Theta Sequences

    Ning Wang, Yimeng Wang ... Dong Ming
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    1. Neuroscience

    Visual routines for detecting causal interactions are tuned to motion direction

    Sven Ohl, Martin Rolfs
    Visual adaptation in humans revealed that the perception of causality was tuned to the direction of motion while the adaptation transferred across different motion speeds and colors.
    1. Neuroscience

    Serotonin modulates infraslow oscillation in the dentate gyrus during non-REM sleep

    Gergely F Turi, Sasa Teng ... Yueqing Peng
    Rhythmic release of serotonin organizes infraslow oscillatory activity of the dentate gyrus during sleep.
    1. Neuroscience

    Synaptic deregulation of cholinergic projection neurons causes olfactory dysfunction across five fly Parkinsonism models

    Ulrike Pech, Jasper Janssens ... Patrik Verstreken
    A new Drosophila collection of Parkinsonism models reveals early synaptic cholinergic projection neuron dysfunction, linking synaptic failure to later dopaminergic decline, highlighting a role for cholinergic modulation in dopaminergic neuron health.
    1. Neuroscience

    Auditory Cortex Learns to Discriminate Audiovisual Cues through Selective Multisensory Enhancement

    Song Chang, Beilin Zheng ... Liping Yu
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    1. Neuroscience

    Longitudinal assessment of DREADD expression and efficacy in the monkey brain

    Yuji Nagai, Yukiko Hori ... Takafumi Minamimoto
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    1. Neuroscience

    Viral-mediated Oct4 overexpression and inhibition of Notch signaling synergistically induce neurogenic competence in mammalian Müller glia

    Nguyet Le, Sherine Awad ... Seth Blackshaw
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    1. Neuroscience

    Adolescent alcohol exposure promotes mechanical allodynia and alters synaptic function at inputs from the basolateral amygdala to the prelimbic cortex

    J Daniel Obray, Erik T Wilkes ... L Judson Chandler
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Mechanisms for integrating memories

    Thomas MW Leir, Matthew PH Gardner
    1. Neuroscience

    Patterns in the hippocampus

    Myrthe Faber, Koen V Haak
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Taking a close look at the cerebellum

    Héloïse de Vareilles

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