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By Catherine Smoot
August 20, 2020

Authors highlight TrkB-dependent molecular pathways as critical for the maturation of inhibitory interneurons and support the hypothesis that loss of BDNF signaling in cortistatin interneurons leads to altered excitatory/inhibitory balance.

Spiking patterns of MeA Dbx1- and Foxp2-lineage neurons differ across sex and lineage.
By Rosalind S.E. Carney, DPhil
August 13, 2020

Authors show neuronal subpopulation and sex differences in the biophysical signatures of developmentally defined medial amygdala output neurons.

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By Vishal Patel
August 6, 2020

Authors developed the open-source ToneBox tool, which allows both novice and expert behaviorists to automatically test hundreds of mice simultaneously on different behavioral tasks.

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By Rosalind S.E. Carney, DPhil
July 30, 2020

Parley Belsey and Eric Yttri tell the story about how they created a highly customizable, low cost and reproducible open-source behavior training platform for studying motor control, decision-making, and reaching reaction time in rodents.

Image of neurons responding to medicinal and abused opioids in the mouse brain
By SfN Staff
July 23, 2020

Neurons responding to medicinal and abused opioids are visualized for the first time in the mouse brain.

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By SfN Staff
July 16, 2020

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Image of electron micrographs of untreated, control lamprey synapses stimulated at 20 Hz for 5 min.
By Rosalind S.E. Carney, DPhil
July 9, 2020

Authors report a viable chaperone-based strategy for reversing the synaptic vesicle trafficking defects associated with excess α-synuclein, which may be of value for improving synaptic function in Parkinson’s disease and other synucleinopathies.

Heterogeneity of neuronal cell bodies of sensory nerves within the vagal ganglia.
By SfN Staff
June 25, 2020

Heterogeneity of neuronal cell bodies of sensory nerves within the vagal ganglia.

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By Nicole Amberg and Robert Beattie
June 18, 2020

Authors examined the reliability of using Cre-induced recombination of one gene to predict recombination in another gene at the single-cell level in adult hippocampal neural stem and progenitor cells.

Drs. Alexandra Castillo-Ruiz and Nancy Forger sitting in their lab.
By Rosalind S.E. Carney, DPhil
June 11, 2020

Alexandra Castillo-Ruiz and Nancy Forger tell the story about their eNeuro paper that sheds light on the long-standing question of what controls the timing and magnitude of developmental neuronal cell death.