Kavli Affiliate: Alexandra Nelson | Authors: Rodrigo M Paz, Michael B Ryan, Pamela F Marcott, Allison E Girasole, Joseph Faryean, Vincent Duong, Sadhana Sridhar and Alexandra B Nelson | Summary: The use of levodopa to manage Parkinson’s disease (PD) symptoms leads to levodopa-induced dyskinesia (LID) and other motor fluctuations, which worsen with disease progression and […]

Kavli Affiliate: Hana El-Samad | Authors: Achal Mahajan, Francesca Ratti, Ban Wang, Hana El-Samad, James H. Kaufman and Vishrawas Gopalakrishnan | Summary: Regulation of gene expression is fundamental for proper cellular function, and is constrained by the local chromatin environment of each gene, which varies spatially along the chromosome and is shaped by epigenetic modifications. […]

Kavli Affiliate: Robert Edwards | Authors: Mera F. Liccione, Trevor Scobey, Heather M. Froggatt, Camryn Pajon, Boyd L. Yount, Qi Yin, Taylor N. Spence, Emmanuel B. Walter, Kevin O. Saunders, Robert J. Edwards, Ralph S. Baric, Barton F. Haynes, Derek W. Cain, Timothy P. Sheahan and Daniel Wrapp | Summary: HCoV-229E is an endemic Alphacoronavirus […]

Kavli Affiliate: Devanand Manoli | Authors: Alexis M Black, Natsumi Komatsu, Jiaxuan Zhao, Scarlet R Taskey, Nicole S Serrano, Ruchira Sharma, Devanand S. Manoli, Markita P Landry and Annaliese Beery | Summary: Friendships, or selective peer relationships, are a vital component of healthy social functioning in humans, while deficits in these relationships are associated with […]

Kavli Affiliate: David Rowitch | Authors: Grant de Jong, Fani Memi, Tannia Gracia, Olga Lazareva, Oliver Gould, Alexander Aivazidis, Manas Dave, Qianqian Zhang, Melanie Jensen, Ahmet Sureyya Rifaioglu, Joao D. Barros-Silva, Sabine Eckert, Di Zhou, Yvette Wood, Elizabeth Tuck, Sezgin Er, Henry Marshall, Kenny Roberts, Andrew L. Trinh, Shreya Rai, Tyler Shaw, Agnes Oszlanczi, Hayden […]

Kavli Affiliate: Philip Starr | Authors: Jin-Xiao Zhang, Clay Smyth, Md Fahim Anjum, Yue Leng, Andrew D. Krystal, Philip A. Starr and Simon Little | Summary: Sleep disturbance is involved in the progression of neurodegenerative diseases, but the neurophysiological mechanisms remain unclear in humans. We recorded sleep at home using portable polysomnography for multiple nights […]

Kavli Affiliate: Noelle L’Etoile and Saul Kato | Authors: Raymond L Dunn, Caitriona Costello, Jackson M Borchardt, Daniel Yutaka Sprague, Grace C Chiu, Julia M Miller, Noelle L’Etoile and Saul Kato | Summary: Working memory allows an animal to gather sensory evidence over time, integrate it with evolving internal needs, and make informed decisions about […]

Kavli Affiliate: Karunesh Ganguly | Authors: Preeya Khanna, behraz farrokhi, Hoseok Choi, Sandon Griffin, Ian Heimbuch, Lisa Novik, Katherina Thiesen, John H Morrison, Robert Morecraft and Karunesh Ganguly | Summary: Sensorimotor beta band oscillations are known to modulate during normal movement control and abnormal beta modulation is linked to pathological bradykinesia. However, the functional differences […]

Kavli Affiliate: Robert Edwards | Authors: Hrach Asmerian, Alexia J. Diaz, Hongfei Xu, Juan A Oses-Prieto, Jacob Alberts, Anna M. Sanetra, Barathan Gnanabharathi, Noah Carr, Alma L. Burlingame, Robert H. Edwards and Katlin Silm | Summary: Neuromodulators such as the monoamines are known to differ from classical neurotransmitters like glutamate in the time scale of […]

Kavli Affiliate: Edward Chang | Authors: Yizhen Zhang, Matthew K Leonard, Laura Gwilliams, Ilina Bhaya-Grossman and Edward F Chang | Summary: When we hear continuous speech, we perceive it as a series of discrete words, despite the lack of clear boundaries in the acoustic signal. The superior temporal gyrus (STG) encodes phonetic elements like consonants […]