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Clinical Applications and Future Translation of Somatosensory Neuroprostheses
Somatosensory neuroprostheses restore, replace, or enhance tactile and proprioceptive feedback for people with sensory impairments due to neurological disorders or injury. Somatosensory neuroprostheses typically couple sensor inputs from a wearabl...
Author: Graczyk, E., Hutchison, B., Valle, G., Bjanes, D., Gates, D., Raspopovic, S., Gaunt, R.
Posted: October 2, 2024, 4:30 pm
Beyond Birth Control: The Neuroscience of Hormonal Contraceptives
Hormonal contraceptives (HCs) are one of the most highly prescribed classes of drugs in the world used for both contraceptive and noncontraceptive purposes. Despite their prevalent use, the impact of HCs on the brain remains inadequately explored....
Author: Lacasse, J. M., Heller, C., Kheloui, S., Ismail, N., Raval, A. P., Schuh, K. M., Tronson, N. C., Leuner, B.
Posted: October 2, 2024, 4:30 pm
Large-Scale Mechanistic Models of Brain Circuits with Biophysically and Morphologically Detailed Neurons
Understanding the brain requires studying its multiscale interactions from molecules to networks. The increasing availability of large-scale datasets detailing brain circuit composition, connectivity, and activity is transforming neuroscience. How...
Author: Dura-Bernal, S., Herrera, B., Lupascu, C., Marsh, B. M., Gandolfi, D., Marasco, A., Neymotin, S., Romani, A., Solinas, S., Bazhenov, M., Hay, E., Migliore, M., Reinmann, M., Arkhipov, A.
Posted: October 2, 2024, 4:30 pm
Learning and Control in Motor Cortex across Cell Types and Scales
The motor cortex is essential for controlling the flexible movements underlying complex behaviors. Behavioral flexibility involves the ability to integrate and refine new movements, thereby expanding an animal's repertoire. This review discusses r...
Author: Economo, M. N., Komiyama, T., Kubota, Y., Schiller, J.
Posted: October 2, 2024, 4:30 pm
Challenges and Approaches in the Study of Neural Entrainment
When exposed to rhythmic stimulation, the human brain displays rhythmic activity across sensory modalities and regions. Given the ubiquity of this phenomenon, how sensory rhythms are transformed into neural rhythms remains surprisingly inconclusiv...
Author: Duecker, K., Doelling, K. B., Breska, A., Coffey, E. B. J., Sivarao, D. V., Zoefel, B.
Posted: October 2, 2024, 4:30 pm
Altered Protein Palmitoylation as Disease Mechanism in Neurodegenerative Disorders
Palmitoylation, a lipid-based posttranslational protein modification, plays a crucial role in regulating various aspects of neuronal function through altering protein membrane-targeting, stabilities, and protein–protein interaction profiles. Disru...
Author: Wlodarczyk, J., Bhattacharyya, R., Dore, K., Ho, G. P. H., Martin, D. D. O., Mejias, R., Hochrainer, K.
Posted: October 2, 2024, 4:30 pm
Neuron-Glial Interactions: Implications for Plasticity, Behavior, and Cognition
The traditional view of glial cells as mere supportive tissue has shifted, due to advances in technology and theoretical conceptualization, to include a diversity of other functions, such as regulation of complex behaviors. Astrocytes, the most ab...
Author: Rangel-Gomez, M., Alberini, C. M., Deneen, B., Drummond, G. T., Manninen, T., Sur, M., Vicentic, A.
Posted: October 2, 2024, 4:30 pm
Glial Control of Cortical Neuronal Circuit Maturation and Plasticity
The brain is a highly adaptable organ that is molded by experience throughout life. Although the field of neuroscience has historically focused on intrinsic neuronal mechanisms of plasticity, there is growing evidence that multiple glial populatio...
Author: Faust, T. E., Devlin, B. A., Farhy-Tselnicker, I., Ferro, A., Postolache, M., Xin, W.
Posted: October 2, 2024, 4:30 pm