Kavli Affiliate: Michael Goldberg | Authors: Michael E Goldberg, Michelle D Noyes, Evan E Eichler, Aaron Quinlan and Kelley Harris | Summary: Short tandem repeats (STRs) are hotspots of genomic variability in the human germline because of their high mutation rates, which have long been attributed largely to polymerase slippage during DNA replication. This model […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kenneth Miller | Authors: Ji Xia, Anna Jasper, Adam Kohn and Kenneth D Miller | Summary: Correlated variability in the visual cortex is modulated by stimulus properties. The stimulus dependence of correlated variability impacts stimulus coding and is indicative of circuit structure. An affine model combining a factor proportional to mean stimulus response […]
Kavli Affiliate: Stefano Fusi & Daniel Salzman | Authors: Hristos Spiridonos Courellis, Juri Minxha, Araceli Ramirez Cardenas, Daniel L Kimmel, Chrystal M Reed, Taufik A Valiante, C. Daniel Salzman, Adam N Mamelak, Ralph Adolphs, Stefano Fusi and Ueli Rutishauser | Summary: Humans have the remarkable cognitive capacity to rapidly adapt to changing environments. Central to […]
Kavli Affiliate: Rafael Yuste | Authors: Nicola Masala, Manuel Mittag, Eleonora Ambrad Giovannetti, Darik A O’Neil, Fabian J Distler, Peter Rupprecht, Fritjof Helmchen, Rafael Yuste, Martin Fuhrmann, Heinz Beck, Michael Wenzel and Tony Kelly | Summary: Genetically encoded calcium indicators (GECIs) such as GCaMP are an invaluable tool in neuroscience to monitor neuronal activity using […]
Kavli Affiliate: Wei Min | Authors: Shan Jiang, Lu Chen, Wei-Min Qu, Zhi-Li Huang and Chang-Rui Chen | Summary: General anesthesia is a fundamental process required to undertake safely and humanely a high fraction of surgeries and invasive diagnostic procedures. However, the undesired stress response associated with general anesthesia (GA) causes delayed recovery and even […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael Shadlen, Liam Paninski, Mark Churchland, & Edward Chang | Authors: Charlie Windolf, Han Yu, Angelique C. Paulk, Domokos Meszéna, William Muñoz, Julien Boussard, Richard Hardstone, Irene Caprara, Mohsen Jamali, Yoav Kfir, Duo Xu, Jason E. Chung, Kristin K. Sellers, Zhiwen Ye, Jordan Shaker, Anna Lebedeva, Manu Raghavan, Eric Trautmann, Maxwell D. Melin, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Stefano Fusi & Mazen Kheirbek | Authors: Frances Xia, Valeria Fascianelli, Nina Vishwakarma, Frances Grace Ghinger, Stefano Fusi and Mazen Kheirbek | Summary: The neural dynamics that underlie divergent anhedonic responses to stress remain unclear. Here, we identified neuronal dynamics in an amygdala-hippocampal circuit that distinguish stress resilience and susceptibility. In a reward-choice […]
Kavli Affiliate: Rudy Behnia | Authors: Ishani Ganguly, Emily L. Heckman, Ashok Litwin-Kumar, E. Josephine Clowney and Rudy Behnia | Summary: The arthropod mushroom body is well-studied as an expansion layer that represents olfactory stimuli and links them to contingent events. However, 8% of mushroom body Kenyon cells in Drosophila melanogaster receive predominantly visual input, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Richard Axel | Authors: Jennifer J Bussell, Ryan P Badman, Christian David Márton, Ethan S Bromberg-Martin, LF Abbott, Kanaka Rajan and Richard Axel | Summary: HAnimals are motivated to acquire knowledge of their world. They seek information that does not influence reward outcomes suggesting that information has intrinsic value. We have asked whether […]
Kavli Affiliate: Costa, Rui | Authors: Joseph Pemberton, Paul Chadderton and Rui Ponte Costa | Summary: Abstract To drive behavior, the cortex must bridge sensory cues with future outcomes. However, the principles by which cortical networks learn such sensory-behavioural transformations remain largely elusive. Here, we posit that the cerebellum assumes a crucial role in driving […]