Kavli Affiliate: Takaki Komiyama | Authors: Bin Yu, Yuxuan Yue, Chi Ren, Rui Yun, Byungkook Lim and Takaki Komiyama | Summary: The brain’s ability to prioritize behaviorally relevant sensory information is crucial for adaptive behavior, yet the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we investigated the role of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons in modulating olfactory bulb […]
Kavli Affiliate: Anirvan Nandy, John Reynolds | Authors: Mitchell P Morton, Sachira Denagamage, Isabel J Blume, John H Reynolds, Monika P Jadi and Anirvan S Nandy | Summary: Identical stimuli can be perceived or go unnoticed across successive presentations, producing divergent behavioral outcomes despite similarities in sensory input. We sought to understand how fluctuations in […]
Kavli Affiliate: Angela Yu | Authors: Alexander Paunov, Maëva L’Hôtellier, Zoe He, Dalin Guo, Angela Yu and Florent Meyniel | Summary: Decision-making in noisy, changing, and partially observable environments entails a basic tradeoff between immediate reward and longer-term information gain, known as the exploration-exploitation dilemma. Computationally, an effective way to balance this tradeoff is by […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kay Tye and Terrence Sejnowski | Authors: Ben Tsuda, Stefan C Pate, Kay M Tye, Hava T Siegelmann and Terrence J Sejnowski | Summary: Neuromodulators are critical controllers of neural states, with dysfunctions linked to various neuropsychiatric disorders. Although many biological aspects of neuromodulation have been studied, the computational principles underlying how neuromodulation […]
Kavli Affiliate: Nathaniel Heintz | Authors: Benjamin W Fait, Bianca Cotto, Tatsuya C Murakami, Michael Hagemann-Jensen, Huiqing Zhan, Corinne Freivald, Isadora Turbek, Yuan Gao, Zizhen Yao, Sharon W Way, Hongkui Zeng, Bosiljka Tasic, Oswald Steward, Nathaniel Heintz and Eric F Schmidt | Summary: The spinal cord receives inputs from the cortex via corticospinal neurons (CSNs). […]
Kavli Affiliate: Emre Yaksi | Authors: Anna Maria Ostenrath, Nicholas Faturos, Yagnur Isik Ciftci Cobanoglu, Bram Serneels, Inyoung Jeong, Anja Enz, Francisca Hinrichsen, Aytac Kadir Mutlu, Ricarda Bardenhewer, Suresh Kumar Jetti, Stephan C. F. Neuhauss, Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi and Emre Yaksi | Summary: Inhibition contributes to various brain computations from sensory motor transformations to cognitive operations. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Shawn Ferguson | Authors: Amanda Bentley-DeSousa and Shawn Ferguson | Summary: Mutations that increase LRRK2 kinase activity have been linked to Parkinson’s disease and Crohn’s disease. LRRK2 is also activated by lysosome damage evoked by chemical and pathogenic stimuli. However, the endogenous cellular mechanisms that control LRRK2 kinase activity are not well understood. […]
Kavli Affiliate: V. S. Ramachandran | Authors: Ashwin Viswanathan, Karthik Thrikkadeeri, Pradeep Koulgi, Praveen J, Arpit Deomurari, Ashish Jha, Ashwin Warudkar, Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi, MD Madhusudan, Monica Kaushik, Naman Goyal, Priti bangal, Rajah Jayapal, Suhel Quader, Sutirtha Dutta, Tarun Menon and Vivek Ramachandran | Summary: Birds and their habitats are threatened with extinction around the world. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Keri Martinowich | Authors: Ye Li, Thomas van Kralingen, Megan Masi, Brandon Villaneuva Sanchez, Beyonca Mitchell, Joshua Johnson, Jorge Miranda-Barrientos, Jason J Rehg, Keri Martinowich and Gregory V Carr | Summary: Attention deficits, a hallmark of many neuropsychiatric disorders, significantly impair quality of life and functional outcome for patients. Continuous Performance Tests (CPTs) […]
Kavli Affiliate: Dwight Bergles | Authors: Yu Kang T Xu, Abigail Bush, Ephraim Musheyev, Anya A Kim, Sen Zhang, Jaime Eugenin von Bernhardi, Jeremias Sulam and Dwight E Bergles | Summary: Insulating sheaths of myelin accelerate neuronal signaling in complex networks of the mammalian brain. In the CNS, myelin sheaths are exclusively produced by oligodendrocytes, […]