Borrowing from Improv to Decode Language in Everyday Conversation 

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Monday, August 31, 2026 | Neuroscience

For people who know Caitriona Douglas, it came as no surprise that she decided to pursue research that does fine-grained analysis of conversations.  “I grew up in a bilingual environment and had childhood speech and language disorders,” Douglas recalls. “For me, a...

Spatial mapping of RNA turnover kinetics in the mouse brain

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Monday, August 31, 2026 | Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 31 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41593-026-02420-yThe authors developed spatial NT-seq to map the landscape of RNA turnover and stability regulation in the mouse brain, identifying the dentate gyrus as a turnover hotspot and...

Social isolation recruits amygdala–medial prefrontal cortex projections to escalate alcohol drinking in male mice

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Tuesday, August 25, 2026 | Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 25 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41593-026-02413-xSocial isolation recruits a basolateral amygdala–medial prefrontal cortex circuit to escalate alcohol drinking in male mice. This pathway reshapes prefrontal population dynamics,...

Motor neurons organize Drosophila feeding sequences via a disinhibitory cascade

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Monday, August 24, 2026 | Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 24 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41593-026-02412-ySui, Yi, Zhou and colleagues show that motor neurons actively orchestrate Drosophila feeding sequences through a feedforward disinhibition cascade. In coordinating their own activity,...

Roles of autophagy in brain homeostasis and disease

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Monday, August 24, 2026 | Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 24 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41593-026-02426-6Autophagy, a quality-control pathway for protein and organelle degradation, is indispensable to CNS cells, with impairments in autophagy linking it to a spectrum of disorders—from...

Lack of sensorimotor toxicity when using the clinical SMN expression cassette in scAAV9

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Monday, August 24, 2026 | Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 24 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41593-026-02411-zLack of sensorimotor toxicity when using the clinical SMN expression cassette in scAAV9 If you do not see content above, kindly GO TO SOURCE. Not all publishers encode content in a...