Articles and News for Jul08

  1. ALS-causing SOD1 mutants generate vascular changes prior to motor neuron degeneration

  2. A Drosophila kinesin required for synaptic bouton formation and synaptic vesicle transport

  3. A balanced view of motor control

  4. A complexin fusion clamp regulates spontaneous neurotransmitter release and synaptic growth

  5. A deletion variant of the ?2b-adrenoceptor is related to emotional memory in Europeans and Africans

  6. A disproportionate role for the fornix and mammillary bodies in recall versus recognition memory

  7. A functional circuitry for edge-induced brightness perception

  8. A functional link between area MSTd and heading perception based on vestibular signals

  9. A functional role for EGFR signaling in myelination and remyelination

  10. A glial amino-acid transporter controls synapse strength and courtship in Drosophila

  11. A hippocampal Cdk5 pathway regulates extinction of contextual fear

  12. A molecular pathway of neurodegeneration linking ?-synuclein to ApoE and A? peptides

  13. A role for BDNF in cocaine reward and relapse

  14. A sharper view from the top

  15. A single N-terminal cysteine in TRPV1 determines activation by pungent compounds from onion and garlic

  16. A step toward optimal coding in olfaction

  17. A stream of cells migrating from the caudal telencephalon reveals a link between the amygdala and neocortex

  18. A tarantula peptide against pain via ASIC1a channels and opioid mechanisms

  19. A temporal frequency?dependent functional architecture in human V1 revealed by high-resolution fMRI

  20. A thermosensory pathway that controls body temperature

  21. A unique sorting nexin regulates trafficking of potassium channels via a PDZ domain interaction

  22. A versatile prion replication assay in organotypic brain slices

  23. Absolute requirement of GDNF for adult catecholaminergic neuron survival

  24. Action potential generation requires a high sodium channel density in the axon initial segment

  25. Activation of EGFR and ERK by rhomboid signaling regulates the consolidation and maintenance of sleep in Drosophila

  26. Activation of estrogen receptor-? regulates hippocampal synaptic plasticity and improves memory

  27. Activity-dependent PSA expression regulates inhibitory maturation and onset of critical period plasticity

  28. Activity-dependent gating of lateral inhibition in the mouse olfactory bulb

  29. Activity-dependent site-specific changes of glutamate receptor composition in vivo

  30. Adaptation reveals independent control networks for human walking

  31. Adaptive regulation of sparseness by feedforward inhibition

  32. Adult hippocampal neurogenesis in depression

  33. Alpha males win again

  34. Amygdala and neocortex: common origins and shared mechanisms

  35. Anandamide inhibits metabolism and physiological actions of 2-arachidonoylglycerol in the striatum

  36. Associative learning mediates dynamic shifts in dopamine signaling in the nucleus accumbens

  37. Astrocyte metabolism and signaling during brain ischemia

  38. Astrocytes as determinants of disease progression in inherited amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

  39. Auditory sensitivity regulation via rapid changes in expression of surface AMPA receptors

  40. Behavior-dependent short-term assembly dynamics in the medial prefrontal cortex

  41. Bilateral olfactory sensory input enhances chemotaxis behavior

  42. Biosynthesis and processing of endogenous BDNF: CNS neurons store and secrete BDNF, not pro-BDNF

  43. CNS-derived glia ensheath peripheral nerves and mediate motor root development

  44. COUP-TFI regulates the balance of cortical patterning between frontal/motor and sensory areas

  45. CaMKII: a biochemical bridge linking accumbens dopamine and glutamate systems in cocaine seeking

  46. Cell type?specific gating of perisomatic inhibition by cholecystokinin

  47. Choice, uncertainty and value in prefrontal and cingulate cortex

  48. Cocaine-induced decision-making deficits are mediated by miscoding in basolateral amygdala

  49. Cognitive neuroscience: new kids on the block?

  50. Compartment-specific transcription factors orchestrate angiogenesis gradients in the embryonic brain

  51. Control of the establishment of aversive memory by calcineurin and Zif268

  52. Control of visually guided behavior by distinct populations of spinal projection neurons

  53. Corollary discharge circuits for saccadic modulation of the pigeon visual system

  54. Corrigendum: Anticipation of monetary gain but not loss in healthy older adults

  55. Corrigendum: Cortical reorganization consistent with spike timing?but not correlation-dependent plasticity

  56. Corrigendum: Presynaptic depolarization facilitates neurotrophin-induced synaptic potentiation

  57. Corrigendum: Supralinear increase of recurrent inhibition during sparse activity in the somatosensory cortex

  58. Cortical activity patterns predict speech discrimination ability

  59. Cortical interference effects in the cocktail party problem

  60. Critical role of TRPC6 channels in the formation of excitatory synapses

  61. Crossing borders: sleep reactivation as a window on cell assembly formation

  62. Crystal structure of the extracellular domain of nAChR ?1 bound to ?-bungarotoxin at 1.94 Å resolution

  63. Daytime sleep condenses the time course of motor memory consolidation

  64. Deciphering citation statistics

  65. Decision-making with multiple alternatives

  66. Defining cortical frequency tuning with recurrent excitatory circuitry

  67. Development and spike timing?dependent plasticity of recurrent excitation in the Xenopus optic tectum

  68. Development of hemodynamic responses and functional connectivity in rat somatosensory cortex

  69. Development of the declarative memory system in the human brain

  70. Developmental axon pruning mediated by BDNF-p75NTR?dependent axon degeneration

  71. Diabetes impairs hippocampal function through glucocorticoid-mediated effects on new and mature neurons

  72. Different roles of ribbon-associated and ribbon-free active zones in retinal bipolar cells

  73. Dissecting demyelination

  74. Dopamine: at the intersection of reward and action

  75. Double dissociation of 'what' and 'where' processing in auditory cortex

  76. Dr. Strangeslug, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the brain

  77. Drosophila TRPA channel modulates sugar-stimulated neural excitation, avoidance and social response

  78. Dual subcellular roles for LIS1 and dynein in radial neuronal migration in live brain tissue

  79. Dynamic BDNF activity in nucleus accumbens with cocaine use increases self-administration and relapse

  80. Dynamin-independent synaptic vesicle retrieval?

  81. EP3 prostaglandin receptors in the median preoptic nucleus are critical for fever responses

  82. Early experience impairs perceptual discrimination

  83. Early visual deprivation impairs multisensory interactions in humans

  84. Emotional environments retune the valence of appetitive versus fearful functions in nucleus accumbens

  85. Ephrin-B reverse signaling promotes structural and functional synaptic maturation in vivo

  86. Epidermal growth factor signaling induces behavioral quiescence in Caenorhabditis elegans

  87. Erratum: Crystal structure of the extracellular domain of nAChR ?1 bound to ?-bungarotoxin at 1.94 Å resolution

  88. Erratum: More noise than signal

  89. Evolutionary expansion and anatomical specialization of synapse proteome complexity

  90. Experience-dependent recovery of vision following chronic deprivation amblyopia

  91. Expressing fear enhances sensory acquisition

  92. Focal brain damage protects against post-traumatic stress disorder in combat veterans

  93. Focus on emotion and disorders of emotion

  94. Focus on glia and disease

  95. Forward and reverse hippocampal place-cell sequences during ripples

  96. Function of the Drosophila CPEB protein Orb2 in long-term courtship memory

  97. Functional identification of sensory mechanisms required for developmental song learning

  98. GABA concentrations in the human anterior cingulate cortex predict negative BOLD responses in fMRI

  99. GTP-independent rapid and slow endocytosis at a central synapse

  100. Game theory and neural basis of social decision making

  101. Genetic control of instrumental conditioning by striatopallidal neuron?specific S1P receptor Gpr6

  102. Genetically encoding unnatural amino acids for cellular and neuronal studies

  103. Glia and romance

  104. Glial cells as intrinsic components of non-cell-autonomous neurodegenerative disease

  105. Glial regulation of the cerebral microvasculature

  106. Glycogen: a Trojan horse for neurons

  107. Got data?

  108. Hedgehog signaling and primary cilia are required for the formation of adult neural stem cells

  109. Hierarchy of cortical responses underlying binocular rivalry

  110. Homeostatic regulation of MeCP2 expression by a CREB-induced microRNA

  111. How robots will teach us how the brain works

  112. Instantaneous correlation of excitation and inhibition during ongoing and sensory-evoked activities

  113. Integrating motion and depth via parallel pathways

  114. Keeping protests within the law

  115. Kinase activity is not required for ?CaMKII-dependent presynaptic plasticity at CA3-CA1 synapses

  116. Lamina-specific axonal projections in the zebrafish tectum require the type IV collagen Dragnet

  117. Learning the value of information in an uncertain world

  118. Light-activated channels targeted to ON bipolar cells restore visual function in retinal degeneration

  119. Local self-renewal can sustain CNS microglia maintenance and function throughout adult life

  120. Long story short: the serotonin transporter in emotion regulation and social cognition

  121. Long-distance relationships

  122. Male pheromone?stimulated neurogenesis in the adult female brain: possible role in mating behavior.

  123. Masking epilepsy by combining two epilepsy genes

  124. Meandering through dyslexia

  125. Mechanism suppressing glycogen synthesis in neurons and its demise in progressive myoclonus epilepsy

  126. Membrane potential shifts caused by diffusible guidance signals direct growth-cone turning

  127. MicroRNA-9 directs late organizer activity of the midbrain-hindbrain boundary

  128. Microglia: active sensor and versatile effector cells in the normal and pathologic brain

  129. Microglia in the adult brain arise from Ly-6ChiCCR2+ monocytes only under defined host conditions

  130. Microgliosis: the questions shape the answers

  131. Minding the microcircuits

  132. Modulation of GABAA receptor desensitization uncouples sleep onset and maintenance in Drosophila

  133. Modulators of decision making

  134. Molecular and electrophysiological evidence for net synaptic potentiation in wake and depression in sleep

  135. Molecular genetic visualization of a rare subset of unmyelinated sensory neurons that may detect gentle touch

  136. More than a feeling: sensation from cortical stimulation

  137. More to pheromones than meets the nose

  138. Motor protein?dependent transport of AMPA receptors into spines during long-term potentiation

  139. MuSK controls where motor axons grow and form synapses

  140. NGF-promoted axon growth and target innervation requires GITRL-GITR signaling

  141. Nature Neuroscience turns 10

  142. Netrin signal transduction and the guanine nucleotide exchange factor DOCK180 in attractive signaling

  143. Neurocognitive correlates of liberalism and conservatism

  144. Neurological defects in trichothiodystrophy reveal a coactivator function of TFIIH

  145. Neurometabolic coupling in cerebral cortex reflects synaptic more than spiking activity

  146. Neuromuscular consequences of reflexive covert orienting

  147. Neurons in monkey visual area V2 encode combinations of orientations

  148. Neuroscience grows in China

  149. Neurotrophins giveth and they taketh away

  150. New insights into BDNF function in depression and anxiety

  151. Nicotinic control of axon excitability regulates thalamocortical transmission

  152. Nicotinic receptor structure emerging slowly

  153. Nociceptive sensory neurons derive from contralaterally migrating, fate-restricted neural crest cells

  154. OL-protocadherin is essential for growth of striatal axons and thalamocortical projections

  155. Olfactory axons derailed in the brain

  156. Oligomeric amyloid-? peptide disrupts phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate metabolism

  157. On and off domains of geniculate afferents in cat primary visual cortex

  158. One memory, two ways to consolidate?

  159. Opposing roles in neurite growth control by two seven-pass transmembrane cadherins

  160. Optimal sensorimotor transformations for balance

  161. Out of the spotlight: face to face with attention

  162. Outer hair cell somatic, not hair bundle, motility is the basis of the cochlear amplifier

  163. Patience reveals chimpanzee cognitive development

  164. Plexin-A2 and its ligand, Sema6A, control nucleus-centrosome coupling in migrating granule cells

  165. Polyglutamine domain modulates the TBP-TFIIB interaction: implications for its normal function and neurodegeneration

  166. Population imaging of ongoing neuronal activity in the visual cortex of awake rats

  167. Prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia control access to working memory

  168. Psychophysically measured task strategy for disparity discrimination is reflected in V2 neurons

  169. Pungent agents from Szechuan peppers excite sensory neurons by inhibiting two-pore potassium channels

  170. Quantal noise from human red cone pigment

  171. RGS2 modulates coupling between GABAB receptors and GIRK channels in dopamine neurons of the ventral tegmental area

  172. RNA decay back in play

  173. Rapid and modifiable neurotransmitter receptor dynamics at a neuronal synapse in vivo

  174. Reactivation of experience-dependent cell assembly patterns in the hippocampus

  175. Rebuilding the brain: resurgence of fetal grafting

  176. Recognition memory: opposite effects of hippocampal damage on recollection and familiarity

  177. Redefining the serotonergic system by genetic lineage

  178. Red-shifted optogenetic excitation: a tool for fast neural control derived from Volvox carteri

  179. Reduction of stimulus visibility compresses apparent time intervals

  180. Reestablishment of damaged adult motor pathways by grafted embryonic cortical neurons

  181. Regulation of axonal and dendritic growth by the extracellular calcium-sensing receptor

  182. Rethinking grant review

  183. Retrograde regulation of motoneuron differentiation by muscle ?-catenin

  184. Reward prediction based on stimulus categorization in primate lateral prefrontal cortex

  185. Risky business: the neuroeconomics of decision making under uncertainty

  186. Robo2-Slit1 dependent cell-cell interactions mediate assembly of the trigeminal ganglion

  187. SK2 channel plasticity contributes to LTP at Schaffer collateral?CA1 synapses

  188. Semaphorin-3A guides radial migration of cortical neurons during development

  189. Sensors for impossible stimuli may solve the stereo correspondence problem

  190. Sex chromosome complement regulates habit formation

  191. Sexually dimorphic gastrin releasing peptide system in the spinal cord controls male reproductive functions

  192. Signals and noise in an inhibitory interneuron diverge to control activity in nearby retinal ganglion cells

  193. Silencing preBötzinger Complex somatostatin-expressing neurons induces persistent apnea in awake rat

  194. Sleep: hitting the reset button

  195. Social learning of fear

  196. Soporific signaling: how flies sleep through the night

  197. Specific requirement of NMDA receptors for long-term memory consolidation in Drosophila ellipsoid body

  198. Spike timing?dependent long-term depression requires presynaptic NMDA receptors

  199. Spiking and nonspiking classes of oligodendrocyte precursor glia in CNS white matter

  200. Stargazin attenuates intracellular polyamine block of calcium-permeable AMPA receptors

  201. Stringing the fiddle: the inner ear's two-part invention

  202. Supply-side academics

  203. Synaptic NMDA receptor activity boosts intrinsic antioxidant defenses

  204. TRPV1 shows dynamic ionic selectivity during agonist stimulation

  205. Targeting abnormal neural circuits in mood and anxiety disorders: from the laboratory to the clinic

  206. The binding sites for cocaine and dopamine in the dopamine transporter overlap

  207. The bouncer in the brain

  208. The evolution of the arcuate fasciculus revealed with comparative DTI

  209. The hippocampus is necessary for enhancements and impairments of learning following stress

  210. The ins and outs of fMRI signals

  211. The main olfactory bulb and innate behavior: different perspectives on an olfactory scene

  212. The most wonderful organ?not!

  213. The neuropathic pain triad: neurons, immune cells and glia

  214. The optimistic brain

  215. The orexigenic hormone ghrelin defends against depressive symptoms of chronic stress

  216. The representation of economic value in the orbitofrontal cortex is invariant for changes of menu

  217. The value in computation

  218. The vesicular glutamate transporter VGLUT3 synergizes striatal acetylcholine tone

  219. Theta phase?specific codes for two-dimensional position, trajectory and heading in the hippocampus

  220. Thinning of sensorimotor cortices in children with Tourette syndrome

  221. Three-dimensional random access multiphoton microscopy for functional imaging of neuronal activity

  222. T-type Ca2+ channels, SK2 channels and SERCAs gate sleep-related oscillations in thalamic dendrites

  223. Two hierarchically organized neural systems for object information in human visual cortex

  224. Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain

  225. Walking the walk

  226. Why endocannabinoids are not all alike

  227. Find this article in Google