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 […]
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 […]
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 […]