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The paper examines neural individuality in human brain regions with evolutionary signatures, finding stronger individuality in more evolutionarily novel areas.

This study identifies a midbrain pathway from VTA to pontine reticular nucleus that biases locomotor direction through local and distal inhibition.

This paper develops a computational model of the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic network to explain beta-band oscillations during postural sway, showing they emerge from intermittent control mechanisms.

This paper evaluates specificity testing in Lesion Network Mapping to address concerns about the biological interpretation and disease-specificity of derived brain circuits.

The paper shows that reactivation during sleep reduces overlap between neural representations of contextually linked memories, promoting object and context specificity.

This study identifies TH2 amacrine cells as active participants in retinal wave circuits during development, showing they are excited by starburst amacrine cells and later driven by bipolar cells through cholinergic and glutamatergic waves.

This study investigates the role of GABRA5 in visual perceptual learning in rats, finding that GABRA5 expression in specific prefrontal cortex interneurons influences learning speed and acuity.

This study shows hyperglycemia increases photoreceptor production of inflammatory factors, which activate Muller glial cells and promote neuroglial inflammation in diabetic retinopathy.

This study uses PET/MRI to examine glucose metabolism and hemodynamic responses during pleasurable music listening, revealing complementary neural activity patterns in brain regions associated with reward and emotion.

This study shows that NMDA receptor loss in the medial prefrontal cortex impairs value updating and reward history integration in mice, mimicking schizophrenia-like cognitive deficits.

The paper shows that APP-CTFβ regulates glutamatergic synaptic transmission and that Aβ counteracts its hyperexcitability effects in Alzheimer's disease.

Meso2EM links mesoscale functional imaging to targeted electron microscopy by preserving neuron identity across scale changes using shared landmarks.

This study investigates how CeA neurons encode behavioral features during habit formation in rats performing a maze task, finding increased cFos expression and specific outcome-related activity.

This study identifies a selective effect of the D620N VPS35 mutation on the brain-specific protein interactome in mammalian cells and brain tissue.

The paper introduces methods to disentangle latent variables driving neural activity by identifying bidirectional local matrices in neural data, applied to reveal movement-driven structures in motor cortex.

This study shows that schizophrenia-like neurodevelopmental pathology alters how adolescent alcohol exposure affects brain network connectivity in rats.

The paper uses a Drosophila connectome to analyze visual pathway organization, revealing multi-layered, functionally interpretable pathways that transform visual input into perceptual representations.

This study shows that dendrite regeneration in Drosophila is restricted by damage to surrounding epidermal cells and ECM following pinch injury, unlike laser injury which does not cause such tissue damage.

The paper uses longitudinal dMRI data to show that subcortical visual pathways weaken while cortical pathways strengthen during early adolescence, with both linked to faster visual processing.

The paper presents a three-dimensional empirical metric field for color discrimination in sRGB space, showing spatially smooth and consistent structures across observers.