Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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Latest articles

    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Dilated cardiomyopathy-associated RNA Binding Motif Protein 20 regulates long pre-mRNAs in neurons

    Giulia Di Bartolomei, Raul Ortiz ... Peter Scheiffele
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Neuroscience

    Progressive overfilling of readily releasable pool underlies short-term facilitation at recurrent excitatory synapses in layer 2/3 of the rat prefrontal cortex

    Jiwoo Shin, Seung Yeon Lee ... Suk-Ho Lee
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Identification of neurodevelopmental organization of the cell populations of juvenile Huntington’s disease using dorso-ventral HD organoids and HD mouse embryos

    Karolina Świtońska-Kurkowska, Jakub Kubiś ... Maciej Figiel
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Neuroscience

    A stimulus-computable rational model of habituation in infants and adults

    Gal Raz, Anjie Cao ... Michael C Frank
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    The Geometry and Dimensionality of Brain-wide Activity

    Zezhen Wang, Weihao Mai ... Quan Wen
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Neuroscience

    Multi-dimensional oscillatory activity of mouse GnRH neurons in vivo

    Su Young Han, Shel-Hwa Yeo ... Allan E Herbison
    The gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons controlling fertility exhibit abrupt increases in activity to generate luteinizing hormone (LH) pulses and a sustained oscillatory pattern of activity to generate the LH surge.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Wavenumber-dependent transmission of subthreshold waves on electrical synapses network model of Caenorhabditis elegans

    Iksoo Chang, Taegon Chung, Sangyeol Kim
    The composition of nodes that effectively transmit sinusoidal waves in a model network resembling C. elegans' electrical synapses network changes according to the waves' wavenumber.
    1. Neuroscience

    Neural evidence of functional compensation for fluid intelligence in healthy ageing

    Ethan Knights, Richard N Henson ... Kamen A Tsvetanov
    Older people can recruit additional brain regions to help perform complex tasks, possibly compensating for age-related changes in other parts of the brain.
    1. Neuroscience

    Complexes of vertebrate TMC1/2 and CIB2/3 proteins form hair-cell mechanotransduction cation channels

    Arnaud PJ Giese, Wei-Hsiang Weng ... Zubair M Ahmed
    Complexes formed by calcium- and integrin-binding proteins 2 and 3 and transmembrane channel-like proteins 1 and 2 are essential for vertebrate hearing and balance and for fish lateral line function.
    1. Neuroscience

    Interneuron FGF13 regulates seizure susceptibility via a sodium channel-independent mechanism

    Susan Lin, Aravind R Gade ... Geoffrey S Pitt
    Variants in FGF13, associated with developmental and epileptic encephalopathies, alter neuronal excitability by affecting inhibitory neurons and by a sodium channel-independent mechanism.
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    A close look at locomotion

    Arthur D Kuo
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Taking a close look at the cerebellum

    Héloïse de Vareilles
    1. Neuroscience
    Someone typing at a laptop wearing rings and a smart watch.

    An author from the first revised Reviewed Preprint shares her experience

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