Rare mutations implicate CGE interneurons as a vulnerable axis of cognitive deficits across psychiatric disorders

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Kavli Affiliate: Attila Losonczy | Authors: Stephanie A Herrlinger, Jiayao Wang, Bovey Y Rao, Jonathan Chang, Joseph Gogos, Attila Losonczy and Dennis Vitkup | Summary: Neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia (SCZ) share genetic risk factors, including rare high penetrance single nucleotide variants and copy number variants (CNVs), and exhibit both […]


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Structural Studies of an Anti-necroptosis Viral:Human Functional Hetero-amyloid M45:RIPK3 using SSNMR

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Kavli Affiliate: Ann McDermott | Authors: Chengming He, Nikhil R Varghese, Eric G Keeler, Chi L L Pham, Brayden Williams, Stephan Tetter, Crystal Semaan, Karyn L Wilde, Simon H J Brown, James C Bouwer, Yann Gambin, Emma Sierecki, Megan Steain, Margaret Sunde and Ann E McDermott | Summary: The formation of RIP-homotypic interaction motif (RHIM)-based […]


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Deficiency of mitophagy mediator Parkin in aortic smooth muscle cells exacerbates abdominal aortic aneurysm

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Kavli Affiliate: Robert Hawkins | Authors: Hui Wang, Matthew Kazaleh, Rachel A. Gioscia-Ryan, Jessica Millar, Gerard Temprano-Sagrera, Sherri Wood, Fran Van Den Burgh, Muriel G Blin, Kathleen M Wragg, Adrain Luna, Robert Bruce Hawkins, Scott A Soleimanpour, Maria Sabater-Lleal, Chang Shu, Daniel A Beard, Gorav Ailawadi, Jane C Deng, Daniel R Goldstein and Morgan Salmon […]


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Accessible, realistic genome simulation with selection using stdpopsim

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Kavli Affiliate: Scott Small | Authors: Graham Gower, Nathaniel S. Pope, Murillo F. Rodrigues, Silas Tittes, Linh N. Tran, Ornob Alam, Maria Izabel Alves Cavassim, Peter D. Fields, Benjamin C. Haller, Xin Huang, Ben Jeffrey, Kevin Korfmann, Christopher C. Kyriazis, Jiseon Min, Ines Rebollo, Clara T Rehmann, Scott T. Small, Christopher C. R. Smith, Georgia […]


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Distinct representations of an anxiogenic environment in different cell types of the ventral hippocampus

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Kavli Affiliate: Stefano Fusi and René Hen | Authors: Jack E Berry, Jessica C Jimenez, Wei-Li Chang, Kenechukwu Michael Ogbu, Nicholas Manfred, Karly Tegang, Stefano Fusi, René Hen and Clay Lacefield | Summary: In addition to its role in episodic memory and spatial navigation, the hippocampus has also been found to influence mood-related disorders such […]


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Portable transcranial therapeutic ultrasound enhances targeted gene delivery for Parkinson’s disease: from rodent models to non-human primates

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Kavli Affiliate: Vincent Ferrera | Authors: Alec J. Batts, Robin Ji, Sua Bae, Fotios N. Tsitsos, Sergio Jiménez-Gambín, Nancy Kwon, Samantha L. Gorman, Deny Tsakri, Rebecca L. Noel, Jonas Bendig, Daniella A. Jimenez, Melody DiBenedetto, Sofia A. Del Castillo, Filimon B. Keleta, James Caicedo, Alexander Romanov, Colleen T. Curley, Yulia Dzhashiashvili, Greglynn D. Walton-Gibbs, Bradley […]


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An evolutionarily conserved role for separase in the regulation of nuclear lamins

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Kavli Affiliate: Michael Goldberg | Authors: Francesca Cipressa, Gaelle Pennarun, Giuseppe Bosso, Serena Rosignoli, Liliana Tullo, Nadia Schiralli, Chiara Borghi, Alessandro Paiardini, Michael L Goldberg, Pascale Bertrand and Giovanni Cenci | Summary: Separase is a well conserved endopeptidase that facilitates sister chromatid separation at the metaphase-anaphase transition by cleaving cohesins. Beyond its role in chromosome […]


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Learning decouples accuracy and reaction time for rapid decisions in a transitive inference task

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Kavli Affiliate: Vincent Ferrera | Authors: Fabian A Munoz Silva, Greg Jensen, Maxwell Shinn, Yelda Alkan, John Murray, Herbert Terrace and Vincent P Ferrera | Summary: The accumulation of evidence over time formalized in the drift diffusion model (DDM), has become one of the most prevalent models of deliberative decision-making. To better understand the role […]


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RESPAN: A Deep Learning Pipeline for Accurate and Automated Restoration, Segmentation, and Quantification of Dendritic Spines

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Kavli Affiliate: Franck Polleux | Authors: Sergio B. Garcia, Alexa P. Schlotter, Daniela Pereira, Aleksandra J Recupero, Franck Polleux and Luke A Hammond | Summary: Quantification of dendritic spines is essential for studying synaptic connectivity, yet most current approaches require manual adjustments or the combination of multiple software tools for optimal results. Here, we present […]


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Circuit-Based Understanding of Fine Spatial Scale Clustering of Orientation Tuning in Mouse Visual Cortex

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Kavli Affiliate: Kenneth Miller | Authors: Peijia Yu, Yuhan Yang, Olivia Gozel, Ian Oldenburg, Mario Dipoppa, Federico Rossi, Kenneth Miller, Hillel Adesnik, Na Ji and Brent Doiron | Summary: In sensory cortex of brain it is often the case that neurons are spatially organized by their functional properties. A hallmark of primary visual cortex (V1) […]


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