Kavli Affiliate: Samuel Pleasure | Authors: Jing Zhou, Ariele Greenfield, Rita Loudermilk, Christopher Bartley, Baouyen Tran, Chao Zhao, Hong Wang, Michael Wilson and Samuel Pleasure | Summary: NMDA receptor antibody encephalitis (NMDAR-AE) is characterized by cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-resident anti-NMDA receptor autoantibodies that cause a wide range of neurological manifestations. Although many symptoms are responsive to […]

Kavli Affiliate: Joshua Berke, Loren Frank | Authors: Timothy Amos Krausz, Alison E. Comrie, Loren M. Frank, Nathaniel Douglass Daw and Joshua D. Berke | Summary: Dopamine in the nucleus accumbens helps motivate behavior based on expectations of future reward (“values”). These values need to be updated by experience: after receiving reward, the choices that […]

Kavli Affiliate: Yifan Cheng | Authors: Matvei Khoroshkin, Daniel Asarnow, Albertas Navickas, Aidan Winters, Johnny Yu, Simon K. Zhou, Shaopu Zhou, Christina Palka, Lisa Fish, K. Mark Ansel, Yifan Cheng, Luke A. Gilbert and Hani Goodarzi | Summary: RNA structural switches are key regulators of gene expression in bacteria, yet their characterization in Metazoa remains […]

Kavli Affiliate: Robert Edwards | Authors: Bhavya Papudeshi, Alejandro A Vega, Cole Souza, Sarah K Giles, Vijini Mallawaarachchi, Michael J. Roach, Michelle An, Nicole Jacobson, Katelyn McNair, Maria Fernanda Mora, Karina Pastrana, Christopjer Leigh, Clarice Cram, Will S Plewa, Susanna R Grigson, George Bouras, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Antoni Luque, Lindsay Droit, Scott Allyn Handley, Anca Segall, […]

Kavli Affiliate: Robert Edwards | Authors: Kevin Saunders, James Counts, Victoria Stalls, Robert Edwards, Kartik Manne, Xiaozhi Lu, Bhishem Thakur, Katayoun Mansouri, Yue Chen, Rob Parks, Maggie Barr, Laura Sutherland, Joena Bal, Nicholas Havill, Haiyan Chen, Emily Machiele, Nolan Jamieson, Bhavna Hora, Megan Kopp, Katarzyna Janowska, Kara Anasti, Chuancang Jiang, Sravani Venkatayogi, Amanda Eaton, Rory […]

Kavli Affiliate: Edward Chang | Authors: Lingyun Zhao, Alexander B. Silva, Garret L. Kurteff and Edward F. Chang | Summary: Natural speech is full of starts and stops. Here, we studied the neural mechanisms that underlie the inhibitory control of speech, specifically the ability to stop speaking on demand. We recorded direct cortical activity while […]

Kavli Affiliate: Arturo Alvarez-Buylla | Authors: Jiwen Li, Marlesa I. Godoy, Alice J. Zhang, Graciel Diamante, In Sook Ahn, Arantxa Cebrian-Silla, Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, Xia Yang, Bennett G. Novitch and Ye Zhang | Summary: Embryonic neural stem cells (NSCs, i.e., radial glia) in the ventricular-subventricular zone (V-SVZ) generate the majority of neurons and glia in the […]

Kavli Affiliate: Alex Pollen | Authors: Chengyu Deng, Sean Whalen, Marilyn Steyert, Ryan Ziffra, Pawel F Przytycki, Fumitaka Inoue, Daniela Alves Pereira, Davide Capauto, Scott Norton, Flora M. Vaccarino, Alex Aaron Pollen, Tomasz J. Nowakowski, Nadav Ahituv and Katherine S. Pollard | Summary: Nucleotide changes in gene regulatory elements are important determinants of neuronal development […]

Kavli Affiliate: Xin Duan | Authors: Junyi Chen, Danqing Yin, Harris Y. H. Wong, Xin Duan, Ken H. O. Yu and Joshua W. K. Ho | Summary: The rapidly growing collection of public single-cell sequencing data have become a valuable resource for molecular, cellular and microbial discovery. Previous studies mostly overlooked detecting pathogens in human […]

Kavli Affiliate: Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, Andrea Hasenstaub, Michael Stryker | Authors: Walter R Mancia Leon, David M Steffen, Fiona Dale-Huang, Benjamin Rakela, Arnar Breevoort, Ricardo Romero-Rodriguez, Andrea R Hasenstaub, Michael P Stryker, Joshua A Weiner and Arturo Alvarez-Buylla | Summary: Cortical function critically depends on inhibitory/excitatory balance. Cortical inhibitory interneurons (cINs) are born in the ventral […]