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 […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael Higley, Alipasha Vaziri, Kristina Nielsen | Authors: Che-Hang Yu, Yiyi Yu, Liam M. Adsit, Jeremy T. Chang, Jad Barchini, Andrew H. Moberly, Hadas Benisty, Jinkyung Kim, Brent K Young, Kathleen Heng, Deano M. Farinella, Austin Leikvoll, Rishaab Pavan, Rachel Vistein, Brandon R. Nanfito, David G. C. Hildebrand, Santiago Otero-Coronel, Alipasha Vaziri, Jeffery […]
Kavli Affiliate: Seth Blackshaw | Authors: Cheng Qian, Ying Xin, Cheng Qi, Hui Wang, Bryan C. Dong, Donald Zack, Seth Blackshaw, Samer Hattar, Feng-Quan Zhou and Jiang Qian | Summary: The progressive death of mature neurons often results in neurodegenerative diseases. While the previous studies have mostly focused on identifying intrinsic mechanisms controlling neuronal survival, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael Miller | Authors: Taylor Bertucci, Kathryn R Bowles, Steven Lotz, Le Qi, Katherine Stevens, Susan K Goderie, Susan Borden, Laura Oja, Keith Lane, Ryan Lotz, Hailey Lotz, Rebecca Chowdhury, Shona Joy, Brigitte L Arduini, David C Butler, Michael Miller, Heide Baron, Carl Alexander Sandhof, M. Catarina Silva, Stephen J Haggarty, Celeste M […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kishore V. Kuchibhotla, Adam S. Charles | Authors: Sharlen Moore, Zyan Wang, Ziyi Zhu, Ruolan Sun, Angel Lee, Adam Charles and Kishore V Kuchibhotla | Summary: A fundamental tenet of animal behavior is that decision-making involves multiple ‘controllers.’ Initially, behavior is goal-directed, driven by desired outcomes, shifting later to habitual control, where cues […]
Kavli Affiliate: Keri Martinowich | Authors: Lionel A Rodriguez, Matt N Tran, Renee Garcia-Flores, Elizabeth A Pattie, Sun-Hong Kim, Joo Heon Shin, Yong Kyu Lee, Heena R Divecha, Carly Montoya, Andrew E Jaffe, Leonardo Collado Torres, Stephanie Cerceo Page and Keri Martinowich | Summary: The lateral septum (LS), a GABAergic structure located in the basal […]
Kavli Affiliate: Patricia Janak | Authors: Kurt M. Fraser, Tabitha H. Kim, Matilde Castro, Céline Drieu, Yasmin Padovan-Hernandez, Bridget Chen, Fiona Pat, David J. Ottenheimer and Patricia H. Janak | Summary: The ability to evaluate and select a preferred option among a variety of available offers is an essential aspect of goal-directed behavior. Dysregulation of […]