The history and future of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging nature.com/articles/s4158…

Duplication of the autism-related gene Chd8 leads to behavioral hyperactivity and neurodevelopmental defects in mice nature.com/articles/s4146…

A hypothalamus–brainstem circuit governs the prioritization of safety over essential needs nature.com/articles/s4159…

New blog post: Calcium imaging makes brain activity glow spikesandbursts.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/cal…

Advances in imaging techniques and molecular approaches have led to new findings on the role of neural activity during development. Gregg Wildenberg argues these findings challenge our notions about the rules governing critical periods. thetransmitter.org/critical-perio…

We've been working on this resource for months: A VISUAL GUIDE TO GENOME EDITORS. Learn how tools like Cas9, Cas13, prime editors, and Bridge editors work - with diagrams! We hope this becomes a valuable resource for the biology community and students.

Our study on the impact of altered serotonin (5-HT) signalling on developing sensory cortex is now live Nature Communications We use longitudinal in vivo imaging of 5-HT & neural activity to show that this neuromodulator is buffered in early life to promote bottom-up instruction.

A common computational and neural anomaly across mouse models of autism "Mice harboring mutations in Fmr1, Cntnap2 or Shank3B show a blunted update of priors during decision-making." nature.com/articles/s4159…

Structure–function coupling in the first month of life: Associations with age and attention "age is associated with “decoupling” of patterns of functional from structural connectivity in neonates" doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

Inferring internal states across mice and monkeys using facial features "we identify, on a single-trial basis, a set of internal states that reliably predicts when the animals are going to react to the presented stimuli." nature.com/articles/s4146…

Our brain-to-voice synthesis brain-computer interface paper was published in nature today! This neuroprosthesis synthesized the voice of a man with ALS instantaneously, enabling him to ‘speak’ flexibly and modulate the prosody of his BCI-voice. 1/7 Paper: rdcu.be/eqH3C

🚨New in Cell We discovered that hippocampal replays in natural-scale environments are highly fragmented, not full-length. doi.org/10.1016/j.cell… 👇🧵

New in Current Biology "Presynaptic and postsynaptic determinants of claustro-cortical connectivity" CLA→ACC projections are highly specific: defined by presynaptic identity, postsynaptic target, and cortical layer. Check it here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #Neuroscience #Claustrum

Three-photon microscopy: an emerging technique for deep intravital brain imaging: nature.com/articles/s4158… Review of the principles and applications of three-photon (3P) microscopy.

Is criticality a unified setpoint of brain function?: cell.com/neuron/fulltex… "We perform a meta-analysis of 140 datasets published between 2003 and 2024. We find that a long-standing controversy is the product of a methodological choice with no bearing on underlying dynamics."

Activity-dependent development of synaptic circuits mediates direction selectivity in an axis-specific manner "...spontaneous activity selectively influences the formation of precise wiring essential for motion detection along the horizontal axis." cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Online now: Spontaneous movements and their relationship to neural activity fluctuate with latent engagement states dlvr.it/TLg5tC

A novel method for reliably measuring miniature and spontaneous postsynaptic events in whole-cell patch clamp recordings in the central nervous system GUI, Matlab, and Python: github.com/dervinism/minis frontiersin.org/journals/cellu…

Behavioral state and stimulus strength regulate the role of somatostatin interneurons in stabilizing network activity dlvr.it/TLrWbY

Encoding of body state in whisker-related somatosensory cortex of freely moving mice: doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.… Multiple dimensions of body state encoded in the whisker-related somatosensory cortex, notably head-body angle and locomotion