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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Kavli Affiliate: Hey-Kyoung Lee | Authors: Sarah Kruessel, Ishana Deb, Seungkyu Son, Gabrielle Ewall, Minhyeok Chang, Hey-Kyoung Lee, Won Do Heo and Hyung-Bae Kwon | Summary: Dendritic spines are structural correlates of excitatory synapses maintaining stable synaptic communications. However, this strong spine-synapse relationship was mainly characterized in excitatory pyramidal neurons (PyNs), raising a possibility that […]

Kavli Affiliate: Dwight Bergles, Seth Blackshaw | Authors: Ingie Hong, Juhyun Kim, Thomas Hainmueller, Dong Won Kim, Richard C. Johnson, Soo Hyun Park, Nathachit Limjunyawong, Zhuonan Yang, David Cheon, Taeyoung Hwang, Amit Agarwal, Thibault Cholvin, Fenna M. Krienen, Steven A. McCarroll, Xinzhong Dong, David A. Leopold, Seth Blackshaw, Dwight E. Bergles, Marlene Bartos, Solange P. […]

Kavli Affiliate: Reza Shadmehr | Authors: Paul Hage, In Kyu Jang, Vivian Looi, Mohammad Amin Fakharian, Simon P Orozco, Ehsan Sedaghat-Nejad, Jay Pi and Reza Shadmehr | Summary: We prefer to decline effortful rewards, but if the circumstances require it, we will move only slowly to harvest them. Why should economic variables such as reward […]

Kavli Affiliate: Patricia Janak | Authors: Eric Garr, Yifeng Cheng, Huijeong Jeong, Sara Brooke, Laia Castell, Aneesh Bal, Robin Magnard, Vijay Mohan K. Namboodiri and Patricia H. Janak | Summary: Learning causal relationships relies on understanding how often one event precedes another. To gain an understanding of how dopamine neuron activity and neurotransmitter release change […]