Neuroscience

Neuroscience

eLife reviews research including brain function, neuronal circuits, synapses, sensory processing and motor pattern generation. Learn more about what we review and sign up for the latest research.
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Latest articles

    1. Neuroscience

    A direct neural signature of serial dependence in working memory

    Cora Fischer, Jochen Kaiser, Christoph Bledowski
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    1. Neuroscience

    Chronic hyperactivation of midbrain dopamine neurons causes preferential dopamine neuron degeneration

    Katerina Rademacher, Zak Doric ... Ken Nakamura
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    1. Neuroscience

    Resilience of A Learned Motor Behavior After Chronic Disruption of Inhibitory Circuits

    Zsofia Torok, Laura Luebbert ... Carlos Lois
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    CO2-dependent opening of Connexin 43 hemichannels

    Valentin-Mihai Dospinescu, Alexander Mascarenhas ... Nicholas Dale
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    1. Neuroscience

    Subcortical correlates of consciousness with human single neuron recordings

    Michael Pereira, Nathan Faivre ... Olaf Blanke
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    1. Neuroscience

    Overt visual attention modulates decision-related signals in ventral and dorsal medial prefrontal cortex

    Blair Shevlin, Rachael Gwinn ... Ian Krajbich
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Neuroscience
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Accept-reject decision-making revealed via a quantitative and ethological study of C. elegans foraging

    Jessica A Haley, Tianyi Chen ... Sreekanth H Chalasani
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    1. Neuroscience

    Brain dynamics and spatiotemporal trajectories during threat processing

    Joyneel Misra, Luiz Pessoa
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    1. Neuroscience

    Elevated pyramidal cell firing orchestrates arteriolar vasoconstriction through COX-2-derived prostaglandin E2 signaling

    Benjamin Le Gac, Marine Tournissac ... Bruno Cauli
    Increased neuronal activity of cortical pyramidal cells can paradoxically reduce cerebral blood flow via vasoconstriction mediated by glutamate and lipid messengers.

Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Neuropeptides and pain

    Weihua Cai, Arkady Khoutorsky
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Targeting single neurons

    Brandon L Holder, Stephane Dissel

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    New York University, United States
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    Brown University, United States
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    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, United States
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