Kavli Affiliate: Michael Shadlen | Authors: Prayshita Sharma, Michael Shadlen and S Shushruth | Summary: Perceptual decision-making refers to the class of decisions in which sensory evidence is used to categorize percepts and guide actions. Conventionally, categorical decisions are thought to precede motor actions. However, recent studies in nonhuman primates challenge this assumption — when […]
Kavli Affiliate: Richard Huganir | Authors: Sheridan Cavalier, Paul W Hook, Richard L. Huganir and Winston Timp | Summary: Neural activity drives transcriptional events that are critical for learning. Activity-induced transcript isoform expression and alternative splicing are cell-type specific events typically obscured by sequencing approaches that restrict read length. We combined single-cell transcriptomics with Nanopore […]
Kavli Affiliate: Seth Blackshaw | Authors: Pin Lyu, Isabella Palazzo, yang jin, Leah Campbell, Clayton Santiago, Rogger Carmen-Orzoco, Thanh Hoang, Jared Tangeman, Alexander Park, Shawn Yang, Jianming Shao, Rui Chen, David Hyde, Jiang Qian and Seth Blackshaw | Summary: Biological age is a major risk factor in the development of common degenerative retinal diseases such […]
Kavli Affiliate: Jeremy Willsey | Authors: Alyssa Puno, Wojciech M Michno, Li Li, Amanda Everitt, Kate McCluskey, Saw Htun, Dhriti Nagar, Jong Bin Choi, Yuqin Dai, Seyeon Park, Emily Gurwitz, Jeremy Willsey, Fikri Birey and Anca M Pasca | Summary: Extremely preterm birth (at < 28 postconceptional weeks) leads to brain injury and represents the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Stephen Strittmatter | Authors: LaShae Nicholson, Si Jie Tang, Tejaswini Karra, Habiba Abouletta and Stephen M. Strittmatter | Summary: Metabolic dysfunction contributes to the risk and progression of Alzheimer”s disease (AD) through insulin signaling, but the cellular mechanisms are not fully understood. In this study, we examined the effects of streptozotocin-induced insulin deficiency […]
Kavli Affiliate: Keri Martinowich | Authors: Jorge Alberto Miranda-Barrientos, Suhaas Adiraju, Jason J Rehg, Michael S Totty, Henry Hallock, Ye Li, Greggory Carr and Keri Martinowich | Summary: Sustained attention, the ability to focus on a stimulus or task over extended periods, is crucial for higher level cognition, and is impaired across multiple neuropsychiatric and […]
Kavli Affiliate: Keri Martinowich | Authors: Prashanthi Ravichandran, Svitlana V. Bach, Robert A. Phillips III, Madeline R. Valentine, Nicholas J. Eagles, Yufeng Du, Ishbel Del Rosario, Ryan A. Miller, Heena R. Divecha, Madhavi Tippani, Kelsey D. Montgomery, Joel E. Kleinman, Shizhong Han, Stephanie Cerceo Page III, Thomas M. Hyde, Leonardo Collado Torres, Alexis Battle, Keri […]
Kavli Affiliate: Vikaas Sohal | Authors: Aarron Justin Phensy, Lara Louise Hagopian, Caitriona M. Costello, Simon Haziza, Omkar Ghenand, Yanping Zhang, Mark J. Schnitzer and Vikaas Singh Sohal | Summary: Cognitive dysfunction in conditions such as schizophrenia involves disrupted communication between the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and mediodorsal thalamus (MD). Parvalbumin interneurons (PVI) are known to […]
Kavli Affiliate: Gabriel Silva | Authors: Pedro Rocha Tenorio, Gabriel Smolak Sobieski e Silva, Débora Hipólito Quadreli, Juliany Carolina Duma de Castro, Glaura Scantamburlo Alves Fernandes and Fábio Goulart de Andrade | Summary: Obesity is a multifactorial condition influenced not only by diet composition but also by food processing. While high-fat and high-sugar diets are […]
Kavli Affiliate: Gaby Maimon | Authors: Franka H. van der Linden, Stephen C. Thornquist, Rick M. ter Beek, Jelle Y. Huijts, Mark A. Hink, Theodorus W.J. Gadella, Jr., Gaby Maimon and Joachim Goedhart | Summary: Fluorescent biosensors toggle between two states and for the vast majority of biosensors one state is bright and the other […]