Meijie Li

Nuclear-excluded PTEN rescued all knockout overgrowth phenotypes in mouse dentate granule neurons; nuclear-restricted PTEN rescued only spine head area and partly soma size, so localization shapes function.

This study shows TCF4 mutations impair synaptic function in patient-derived cortical neurons by disrupting RIMBP2 expression, leading to deficits in synaptic transmission and network excitability.

This paper identifies the medial sector of the auditory thalamus (ATm) as an interface that transforms alerting environmental cues into internal arousal and emotional state changes in mice.