Kavli Affiliate: Edward Chang | Authors: Narayan Sankaran, Matthew K Leonard, Frederic E Theunissen and Edward F Chang | Summary: Melody is a core component of music in which discrete pitches are serially arranged to convey emotion and meaning. Perception of melody varies along several pitch-based dimensions: (1) the absolute pitch of notes, (2) the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Edward Chang | Authors: Sunada Khadka, Yu-Hsi Lin, Jeffrey J Ackroyd, Yi-An Chen, Yanghui Sheng, Wubin Qian, Sheng Guo, Yining Chen, Eliot Itzkow Behr, Yasaman Barekatin, Md. Nasir Uddin, Kenisha Arthur, Victoria C Yan, Edward Chang, Anton Poral, Theresa Tran, Wen-Hao Hsu, Surendra Chaurasiya, Dimitra K. Georgiou, John M. Asara, Floris P. Barthel, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Daniel Minor | Authors: Parker E Deal, Haerim Lee, Abhisek Mondal, Marco Lolicato, Philipe Ribeiro Furtado de Mandonca, Holly Black, Xochina El-Hilali, Clifford Bryant, Ehud Y Isacoff, Adam Renslo and Daniel L Minor, Jr. | Summary: K2P potassium channels regulate excitability by affecting cellular resting membrane potential in the brain, cardiovascular system, immune […]
Kavli Affiliate: Zachary Knight & Jeffrey M. Friedman | Authors: Christin Kosse, Jessica Ivanov, Zachary Knight, Kyle Pellegrino and Jeffrey Friedman | Summary: The brain processes an array of stimuli enabling the selection of an appropriate behavioural response but the underlying circuitry linking inputs to outputs is unknown. Here we delineate a subcortical circuit in […]
Kavli Affiliate: Xin Duan | Authors: Axel Guskjolen, Jagroop Dhaliwal, Juan de la Parra, Jonathan R Epp, Sangyoon Ko, Erin Chahley, Mitch de Snoo, Michela Solari, Prabdeep Panesar, Jason Scott Snyder, Xin Duan, Joshua Sanes, Sheena Josselyn and Paul Frankland | Summary: Post-training increases in hippocampal neurogenesis are associated with forgetting of hippocampus-dependent memories in […]
Kavli Affiliate: Arturo Alvarez-Buylla | Authors: Yajun Xie, Christopher M Reid, Alejandro A Granados, Miguel Turrero Garcia, Fiona Dale-Huang, Sarah M Hanson, Walter R Mancia Leon, Jonathan Liu, Manal A Adam, Olivia Mosto, Angela Oliveira Pisco, Arturo Alvarez-Buylla and Corey C Harwell | Summary: Astrocyte specification during development is influenced by both intrinsic and extrinsic […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael Stryker | Authors: Wendy Xin, Megumi Kaneko, Richard H Roth, Albert Zhang, Sonia Nocera, Jun B Ding, Michael P Stryker and Jonah R Chan | Summary: BACKGROUND: Developmental myelination is a protracted process in the mammalian brain. One theory for why oligodendrocytes mature so slowly posits that myelination may stabilize neuronal circuits […]
Kavli Affiliate: Reza Abbasi Asl | Authors: Robert Cahill, Yu Wang, Alex Lee, Hongkui Zeng, Bin Yu, Bosiljka Tasic and Reza Abbasi-Asl | Summary: The growth of large-scale spatial gene expression data requires new computational tools to extract major trends in gene expression in their native spatial context. Here, we describe an unsupervised and interpretable […]
Kavli Affiliate: Philip Starr | Authors: Bahman Abdi-Sargezeh, Sepehr Shirani, Abhinav Sharma, Philip Starr, Simon Little and Ashwini Oswal | Summary: Neural activities within the beta frequency range (13-30 Hz) are not stationary, but occur in transient packets known as beta bursts. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by the occurrence of beta bursts of increased […]
Kavli Affiliate: Arnold R. Kriegstein | Authors: Yonatan Perez, Dmitry Velmeshev, Li Wang, Matthew White, Clara Siebert, Jennifer Baltazar, Natalia Garcia Dutton, Shaohui Wang, Maximilian Haeussler, Stormy Chamberlain and Arnold Kriegstein | Summary: Duplication 15q (dup15q) syndrome is the most common genetic cause of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Due to a higher genetic and phenotypic […]