An activity-dependent transcriptional program for synaptogenesis during development, revealed in C. elegans dopaminergic neurons From Kang Shen's lab Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute nature.com/articles/s4159…

What makes the brain maintain voluntary #exercise despite attractive alternative options such as eating? #Orexin/hypocretin neurons are crucial for implementing the underlying valuation of eating vs running in mice nature.com/articles/s4159…

Special issue on glia Nature Neuroscience: checked. Travel plans to #cshlglia: checked. Looking forward to the conference! Get in touch if you'll be there, too 😀 nature.com/neuro/volumes/…

Active zones of mouse hippocampal #synapses consist of distinct machineries to organize Ca2+ channels and prime vesicles, and Liprin-α and PTPσ specifically support priming site assembly Harvard University HarvardBrainScience Harvard Medical School nature.com/articles/s4159…

Senior Editor Elisa Floriddia (Elisa Floriddia) will be at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory CSHL Meetings Glia meeting this week! To get excited, consider perusing our August issue, which is focused on glia! nature.com/neuro/volumes/… #CSHLglia #CSHLglia2024

Ventral attention network connectivity is linked to cortical maturation and cognitive ability in childhood, shown using multiple cross-culture longitudinal datasets nature.com/articles/s4159…

Tau is required for glial lipid droplet formation and resistance to neuronal oxidative stress nature.com/articles/s4159…

Combined CSF proteomics and PET measuring the loads of Aβ plaques and tau tangle pathologies in a large sample covering the Alzheimer's disease spectrum nature.com/articles/s4159…

Activity of nested neural circuits drives different courtship songs in Drosophila nature.com/articles/s4159…

Discovery of human-specifc spinal motor neuron progenitors that remain cycling longer than classical progenitors, yielding ~5 times more neurons nature.com/articles/s4159…

Profiling of a circumventricular organ with leaky blood vessels and comparison to cortex vasculature reveals that blood-brain barrier heterogeneity results from differences in endothelial cells and their interactions with perivascular cells @gulabneuro nature.com/articles/s4159…

A Hebbian spike-time-dependent plasticity rule at inhibitory synapses supports replay generalization in the mouse hippocampus Zhenrui Liao Losonczy_Lab nature.com/articles/s4159…

Single-nucleus transcriptomic profiling of human orbitofrontal cortex (~800,000 nuclei from 87 individuals with and without psychiatric diagnoses) reveals convergent effects of aging and psychiatric disease Binder Lab Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry nature.com/articles/s4159…

Check out our September issue! nature.com/neuro/volumes/…