A trainee-informed model for undergraduate neuroscience research programs serving marginalized students

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Friday, October 25, 2024 | Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 25 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01790-5Undergraduate research programs improve career outcomes for historically marginalized students in the US, but low retention rates in postgraduate research persist. As graduate...

Unity and diversity model of executive functions: State of the art and issues to be resolved.

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, October 21, 2024 | Neuroscience

Psychology & Neuroscience, Vol 17(4), Dec 2024, 253-281; doi:10.1037/pne0000349Objective: This article aimed to review the unity and diversity model of executive functions, examining its historical evolution, exploring general versus specific executive functions,...

Rastermap: a discovery method for neural population recordings

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Wednesday, October 16, 2024 | Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 16 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01783-4Rastermap is an analysis method for exploring dynamical and spatial relationships among hundreds to hundreds of thousands of neurons. The algorithm uses a fast optimization technique...

Integrating brainstem and cortical functional architectures

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Wednesday, October 16, 2024 | Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 16 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01787-0Hansen et al. used in vivo functional imaging of the human brainstem and cortex to demonstrate how the brainstem shapes cortical functional architecture, including oscillatory...

The hippocampal CA2 region discriminates social threat from social safety

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Tuesday, October 15, 2024 | Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 15 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01771-8The hippocampal dorsal CA2 enables the recognition of novel conspecifics. Kassraian et al. show that it is also required for discriminating safety- versus threat-associated...

A cross-disease resource of living human microglia identifies disease-enriched subsets and tool compounds recapitulating microglial states

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Tuesday, October 15, 2024 | Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 15 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01764-7Profiling >200,000 live human microglia from 74 donors across neurological diseases reveals 12 subtypes of microglia that were validated in situ. Camptothecin is also identified...