Nicotinic modulation of frontal circuits breaks the cycle of attentional performance failure
Tadaaki Nishioka, Kevin Norman, Yury Garkun, Justin S. Riceberg, Leah H. Waltrip, Lucy K. Bicks, Alesia Singh, April Serratelli, Tatsiana Mankouskaya, Priscilla Maccario, Samuel Allen, Julia Bateh, Christina Cho, Keaven Caro, Sarah Lopez, , Hirofumi Morishita
The paper identifies a cholinergic mechanism in frontal circuits that restores attentional performance after repeated errors in a mouse model.
bioRxiv · Oct 12, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience