Zebrafish Eye Movements Selectively Boost Salience of Vital Visual Stimuli
A study in zebrafish reveals how saccadic suppression selectively preserves critical visual cues during rapid eye movements.
Tag: neural circuits
Cortical Alpha-Synuclein Pathology Disrupts Mouse Neural Circuits Without Causing Visuoperceptual Impairment
In a mouse model of early Lewy body dementia, cortical alpha-synuclein pathology reduced individual neuronal activity and altered local circuits ...
Impulsivity May Not Be a Broken Brake: Hippocampus-Prefrontal Circuit Rethinks Reward-Seeking
A new perspective article proposes that the ventral hippocampus–prefrontal cortex axis acts as a contextual regulator that can either constrain ...
Optogenetics offers a precise window into neural circuits behind neurodegenerative disease
A new review in Frontiers in Medical Technology surveys how optogenetics has advanced the study of neural circuits in neurodegenerative ...
Worm kinase keeps a temperature-tracking behavior running for minutes on end
A C. elegans GPCR kinase acts in two premotor interneurons to sustain minute-scale isothermal tracking on a temperature gradient.
CD51 defines specialized astrocyte roles in mouse brain circuits
A mouse study shows that CD51-positive and CD51-negative astrocytes have distinct roles in synapse formation, memory-circuit adaptation and recovery from ...
Scientists Pinpoint the Moment Stress Turns Into Depression in the Brain
A new Nature Neuroscience study maps a precisely timed, seven-day window in which chronic stress remodels the mouse lateral habenula ...
New Tools and Fresh Thinking Are Reshaping the Science of Addiction
A new Frontiers Research Topic argues that biosensors, longitudinal phenotyping, and transdiagnostic biomarkers are transforming addiction from a static label ...
Light-Activated Brain Switches Earn 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering light-gated ...
Light-Switching Brain Proteins Earn 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering light-gated ...
Optogenetics Pioneers Deisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel Win 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel share the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on light-gated ...
Oxytocin in the Brain’s Septum Lets Mice Learn Safe Foods From Friends
New research in PLOS Biology shows that oxytocin receptor signaling in the dorsal lateral septum is essential for mice to ...
Hidden Symmetry Found in the Brain’s Messy Head-Direction Circuits
A new Nature Neuroscience study shows that seemingly disordered mammalian head-direction circuits conceal the hidden circular symmetry of continuous attractor ...
How the Brain’s Internal Compass Holds Its Course: Ring Attractor Networks Go Full Circle
A new theoretical study shows that heterogeneous, biologically realistic neural circuits implement head-direction selectivity through the same continuous attractor dynamics ...
Bullfrog brains found to brew their own backup fuel when glucose runs dry
University of Missouri researchers found that bullfrog brains can produce ketone bodies locally when glucose is scarce, a built-in backup ...
Fruit fly brain study reveals how working memory is written and switched off
Researchers at NYU Langone Health have shown that fruit flies store short-term odor memories in a gated split attractor network ...
Brain’s Kappa-Opioid Switch: New Map Reveals How Dynorphin Circuits Drive Depression and Anxiety
A new review maps how the kappa-opioid receptor/dynorphin system acts as a circuit-specific switch in the brain's fear and reward ...
Emmy Noether Award Brings Insect Brain Evolution Researcher to Mainz
Evolutionary neurobiologist Max Farnworth has joined Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from Bristol to lead a DFG-funded Emmy Noether group investigating ...
Single-Unit Activations Shape Cognitive Task Solutions
In recent times, the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence has led researchers to explore the fundamental principles underlying cognition ...
