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Our special August issue focused on glia is now live!
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What makes the brain maintain voluntary #exercise despite attractive alternative options such as eating? #Orexin /hypocretin neurons are crucial for implementing the underlying valuation of eating vs running in mice
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Take a deep dive into our March issue!
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Our February issue is now live!
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Our December issue is now live!
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💥We're hiring!💥 We're recruiting a locum editor, especially someone with expertise in cellular/molecular neuroscience, neurodegeneration, or neuroimmunology. This is a great way to test out an editorial career and see if it's for you!
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When an artificial neural network was trained to solve 20 cognitive tasks, functionally specialized modules and compositional representations emerged
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In this scenario, the cost of publication is covered by an Article Processing Charge (APC) paid at the time of publication. The APC for Nature Neuroscience in 2022 is €9,500/US $11,390/£8,290.
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Functional boundaries in the human #cerebellum revealed by having participants perform 26 tasks spanning motor, cognitive, social, and affective domains during #fMRI
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Our December issue is now live!
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A method to decode unknown variables by finding shapes in neural data shows the existence of a low-dimensional #manifold that forms a continuous ring of stable states in mouse head direction neurons
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New theory from @DeepMindAI showing how learning-to-learn may arise from interactions between prefrontal cortex and the #dopamine system
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Our August issue is now live!
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Our June issue is now live!
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A review on the roles of #astrocytes , #microglia , and #tanycytes in brain control of systemic metabolism
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A new principle for learning in neural networks called ‘prospective configuration’, which is more efficient in learning and consistent with neural and behavior data than backpropagation
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Our May issue is now live!
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Synaptic-like transmission between neural axons and arteriolar smooth muscle cells drives cerebral neurovascular coupling ( #NVC )
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A method to generate new neurons in the cortex and dentate gyrus of aged mice with a single injection of an antisense oligonucleotide (ASO), opening prospects for replacing neurons lost to neurodegenerative disease
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Our May issue is now live!
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Our May issue, commemorating our 25th anniversary, is now live! Cover art by @Marina_C_Spence
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A theory of how the brain could implement planning through prefrontal–hippocampal interactions, where hippocampal replays are triggered by—and adaptively affect—prefrontal dynamics.
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Structural MRI data from >45,000 individuals aged 3 to 96 years reveals distinct patterns of apparent brain #aging in several disorders
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#Microglia and #astrocytes propagate #neurodegeneration by releasing fragmented and dysfunctional #mitochondria into the neuronal milieu. Inhibiting pathological fragmentation of glial mitochondria blunts neuroinflammation and increases neuroprotection.
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The brains of #COVID -19 patients have damaged blood vessels (more so-called string vessels representing remnants of lost capillaries); SARS-CoV-2 infects brain endothelial cells and leads to microvascular pathology via RIPK signaling
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Development and validation of κLight, δLight, and μLight, a suite of genetically encoded #opioid peptide sensors for probing opioid drugs and brain-region/circuit-specific opioid release in behaving animals @JasonCDong1 @LinTianPhD
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A toolbox called #DeepLabCut that uses deep learning to track body parts during various behaviors across multiple species can achieve human accuracy
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While Bayesian models provide good accounts of perceptual decisions, it is unclear how their components are represented in the brain. Here, the authors show that uncertainty decoded from visual cortex helps predict behavior.
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Our December issue, featuring our Focus on neuroscience methods, is now live!
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Cell-type-specific retrograde and anterograde tracing of neurotransmitter-specific projections to the ventral tegmental area ( #VTA ) reveals diversity of GABAergic inputs
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A whole-brain atlas of direct long range inputs to GABAergic #interneurons in the medial #prefrontal cortex (mPFC) of male mice
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🎉Please join us in congratulating Shari Wiseman ( @sharilwiseman ), who starts as our new Chief Editor today! And, learn more about our full team of outstanding editors here:
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In primates, activity in visual cortex is minimally driven by spontaneous body movements. These results confirm the functional specialization of primate visual processing and contrast with findings in mice.
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Our focus issue on human brain mapping is online now:
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Mouse and human #decision -making relies on an interplay among multiple interleaved strategies, which often switch multiple times within a session New from @zoe_ashwood , @jpillowtime , @theiStone , @IntlBrainLab , @anne_churchland , and @pouget_alex
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A review about mechanisms of systems #memory consolidation during #sleep
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During moderate tonic locus coeruleus activation in mice, noradrenaline release engages cortical regions related to associative processing, while burst-like stimulation biases the brain toward sensory processing
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How do multiple synapses interact to modulate learning? @ejagnes & @TPVogels postulate models of “codependent” synaptic plasticity that promote rapid, multi-synaptic attainment of stable receptive fields, dendritic patterns and plausible neural dynamics
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Using dimensionality reduction techniques @mikio_aoi , @ValerioMante , and @jpillowtime disentangle the contributions of different task variables to neural population activity.
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The #psychedelics LSD and psilocin directly bind to the BDNF receptor, TrkB, and this is required for effects on #antidepressant -like behavior in mice New from @castren_eero @RafaelMoliner @p_casarotto @UH_Neuro @HkiBrainMind
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Transplanting wild-type neurons into the brains of #Alzheimer 's disease model mice shows that #microglia contribute to the infiltration of amyloid beta ( #A β) into the grafts
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Happy new year! Our January issue is now live!
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. @Franklandlab and @sjo09 used optogenetic stimulation to engineer a fully artificial olfactory fear memory in mice
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A normative theory predicting which memories should be accessed at each moment to optimize future decisions
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A human #Alzheimer 's disease (AD) culture model using neurons, astrocytes, and microglia in a 3D microfluidic platform recapitulates key AD features, including beta-amyloid aggregation, phosphorylated tau accumulation, and neuroinflammatory activity
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MRI data from 11,354 individuals in the @uk_biobank establishes a link between white matter microstructure and functional connectivity; #GWAS identified genetic associations of these microstructure–function relationships.
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Trans-Seq combines a fluorescent anterograde trans-synaptic tracer with scRNAseq for post-synaptic circuit discovery from defined pre-synaptic neurons; used here to to map retinal ganglion cell (RGC) types to superior collicular (SC) circuits
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We are deeply saddened to hear of Ben Barres's passing. He will be remembered as a brilliant scientist, a beloved mentor, and a passionate advocate for diversity.
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Humans (but not macaques) have cortical regions with a strong preference for harmonic tones compared to noise, perhaps due to the human brain's needs for processing speech and music 🎶
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Our June issue, featuring some adorable macrophages, is now live!
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Watch our animation on #Parkinsons disease. It focuses on mechanisms whereby neurons become dysfunctional, how pathology develops, and touches on therapeutic strategies. Made with @NatRevNeurosci and produced with support from @Roche .
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Our November issue is now live!
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Two new papers on noninvasive brain stimulation in humans: Noninvasive theta-burst stimulation of the human striatum enhances striatal activity and motor skill learning @UPHUMMEL_EPFLMW @MJ_WesselEB @BeanatoElena
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We are saddened to hear of the passing of Bruce McEwen, a pioneer in stress research. Please enjoy his comprehensive 2015 review on this topic
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#Dopamine signals shift gradually from time of reward to time of cue, similarly to the progression of temporal difference error in machine learning New from Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida, @naoshigeuchida , and colleagues
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Neurons in the CA1 region of the #hippocampus encode events as discrete and transferable units of experience
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Three-photon microscopy for long-term in vivo three-photon imaging of the entire cortical column and subcortical white matter in adult mice reveals region-specific differences in healthy and regenerative #oligodendrocyte formation @EthanHughesLab et al.
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Cerebellar Purkinje cells directly inhibit neurons in the parabrachial nuclei that in turn influence many forebrain regions. This alternative output pathway could enable the cerebellum to regulate emotions, anxiety, aggression and affect.
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A review from @DaniSBassett and Harang Ju on dynamic representations in networked neural systems
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. @KateWassum and colleagues show that lateral OFC→BLA projections encode the positive value of a reward, whereas medial OFC→BLA projections retrieve this value from memory: . Also, check out the N&V from Shannon Gourley: .
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Congratulations to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on pain and touch!
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BREAKING NEWS: The 2021 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.”
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#Dopamine neurons projecting to the posterior #striatum reinforce avoidance of threatening stimuli, suggesting there are at least 2 axes of dopaminergic reinforcement learning in the striatum: one based on value and one based on external threat
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Our April issue is now live!
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Hippocampal place codes degraded extensively when mice voluntarily disengaged from a virtual navigation task, suggesting that internal states can gate spatial maps and reorganize hippocampal activity even without sensory and self-motion changes
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After focal CNS injury, local mature #astrocytes dedifferentiate, proliferate and become transcriptionally reprogrammed; these wound repair astrocytes are the predominant source of neuroprotective borders that re-establish CNS integrity around lesions
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#Ketamine -triggered rapid antidepressant-like responses in mice, but not psychomimetic effects, are mediated by the GluN2A NMDAR subunit, not GluN2B.
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Our October issue is now live!
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Chill out with our April issue!
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Combining brain imaging, genetics, and behavioral data shows that distinct brainwide distributions of #serotonin receptors explain the known division of serotonin effects on human impulsivity and aversive processing
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Culturing cerebral #organoids in an adapted air-liquid interface system improves neuronal survival and axon outgrowth. These cultures exhibit extracortical projecting tracts that can innervate mouse spinal cord and evoke muscle contraction.
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Our February issue is now live!
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If synaptic #plasticity is regulated by high-frequency bursts of spikes, then neurons higher in a hierarchical circuit can coordinate the plasticity of lower-level connections to enable learning complex tasks
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Single-cell RNA-sequencing ( #scRNA -seq) across regions of the developing human brain, including the telencephalon, diencephalon, midbrain, hindbrain and cerebellum, reveals progenitor heterogeneity and degree of similarity to brain #organoids
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Human stem cell-derived #microglia engrafted into mouse brain recapitulate human primary microglia gene expression, and provide a model to study #Alzheimer ’s and other brain diseases
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Check out our September issue!
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Simultaneous recording from over 200 well-isolated cortical single units in human participants using silicon Neuropixels probes, providing a path for studying human cognitive processes and their dysfunction at unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution
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