A semi-automated method for quantifying optokinetic reflex tracking acuity

Kavli Affiliate: Alex Kolodkin | Authors: James Kenneth Kiraly, Scott C Harris, Timour Al-Khindi, Felice Dunn and Alex L Kolodkin | Summary: The study of murine behavioral responses to visual stimuli is a key component of understanding mammalian visual circuitry. One notable response is the optokinetic reflex (OKR), a highly conserved innate behavior necessary for […]


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SynGAP regulates synaptic plasticity and cognition independent of its catalytic activity

Kavli Affiliate: Richard Huganir | Authors: Yoichi Araki, Kacey E Rajkovich, Elizabeth E Gerber, Timothy R Gamache, Richard C Johnson, Thanh Hai Tran, Bian Liu, Ingie Hong, Alfredo Kirkwood and Richard L Huganir | Summary: SynGAP is an abundant synaptic GTPase-activating protein (GAP) critical for synaptic plasticity, learning, memory, and cognition. Mutations in SYNGAP1 in […]


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Pramipexole restores behavioral inhibition in highly impulsive rats through a paradoxical modulation of frontostriatal networks

Kavli Affiliate: Patricia Janak | Authors: Robin Magnard, Maxime Fouyssac, Yvan M Vachez, Yifeng Cheng, Thibault Dufourd, Carole Carcenac, sabrina Boulet, Patricia H Janak, Marc Savasta, David Belin and Sebastien Carnicella | Summary: Impulse control disorders (ICDs), a wide spectrum of maladaptive behavior which includes pathological gambling, hypersexuality and compulsive buying, have been recently suggested […]


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Growth media affects susceptibility of air-lifted human nasal epithelial cell cultures to SARS-CoV2, but not Influenza A, virus infection

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Beer | Authors: Jessica D. Resnick, Jo L. Wilson, Eddy Anaya, Abigail Conte, Maggie Li, William Zhong, Michael A. Beer and Andrew Pekosz | Summary: Primary differentiated human epithelial cell cultures have been widely used by researchers to study viral fitness and virus-host interactions, especially during the COVID19 pandemic. These cultures recapitulate […]


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Batch Effects are Causal Effects: Applications in Human Connectomics

Kavli Affiliate: Brian Caffo, Joshua Vogelstein | Authors: Eric W. Bridgeford, Michael Powell, Gregory Kiar, Stephanie Noble, Jaewon Chung, Sambit Panda, Ross Lawrence, Ting Xu, Michael Milham, Brian Caffo and Joshua T. Vogelstein | Summary: Batch effects, undesirable sources of variance across multiple experiments, present significant challenges for scientific and clinical discoveries. Specifically, batch effects […]


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Chronic brain functional ultrasound imaging in freely moving rodents performing cognitive tasks

Kavli Affiliate: Adam S. Charles | Authors: Ahmed El Hady, Daniel Y Takahashi, Ruolan Sun, Oluwateniola Akinwale, Tyler Boyd-Meredith, Yisi Zhang, Adam Charles and Carlos Brody | Summary: Functional ultrasound imaging (fUS) is an emerging imaging technique that indirectly measures neural activity via changes in blood volume. To date it has not been used to […]


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Hallucination proneness alters sensory feedback processing in self-voice production

Kavli Affiliate: David Linden | Authors: Suvarnalata Xanthate Duggirala, Michael Schwartze, Lisa K Goller, David E.J. Linden, Ana Pinheiro and Sonja A Kotz | Summary: Background: Sensory suppression occurs when hearing ones self-generated voice, as opposed to passively listening to ones own voice. Quality changes of sensory feedback to the self-generated voice can increase attentional […]


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Mechano-induced homotypic patterned domain formation by monocytes

Kavli Affiliate: Denis Wirtz | Authors: Wenxuan Du, Jingyi Zhu, Yufei Wu, Ashley Kiemen, Sean Sun and Denis Wirtz | Summary: Matrix stiffness and corresponding mechano-signaling play indispensable roles in cellular phenotypes and functions. How tissue stiffness influences the behavior of monocytes, a major circulating leukocyte of the innate system, and how it may promote […]


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A Bayesian Regularized and Anotation-Informed Integrative Analysis of Cognition (BRAINIAC)

Kavli Affiliate: Wesley Thompson | Authors: Rong Zablocki, Bohan Xu, Chun-Chieh Fan and Wesley K. Thompson | Summary: Here we present a development of the novel Bayesian Regularized and Anotation-Informed Integrative Analysis of Cognition (BRAINIAC) model. BRAINIAC allows for both estimation of total variance explained by all features for a given cognitive phenotype, as well […]


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Microglial cannabinoid receptor type1 mediates social memory deficits produced by adolescent THC exposure and 16p11.2 duplication

Kavli Affiliate: Solange Brown | Authors: Yuto Hasegawa, Juhyun Kim, Gianluca Ursini, Yan Jouroukhin, Xiaolei Zhu, Yu Miyahara, Feiyi Xiong, Samskruthi Madireddy, Mizuho Obayashi, Beat Lutz, Akira Sawa, Solange P Brown, Mikhail V Pletnikov and Atsushi Kamiya | Summary: Adolescent cannabis use increases the risk for cognitive impairments and psychiatric disorders. Cannabinoid receptor type 1 […]


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