Down the Rashomon Hole: Reflections on Mapping Emotions in the Brain

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Wednesday, April 29, 2026 | Neuroscience

CNS 2026 guest post by Mohith (Mo) M. Varma Sitting through the four talks at the “Mapping Emotions in the Brain” symposium at the CNS 2026 annual meeting, I couldn’t shake the feeling I was watching the scientific equivalent of Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa’s 1950...

A septo–entorhinal GABAergic pathway that enables switching between episodic memories

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Wednesday, April 29, 2026 | Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 29 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41593-026-02280-6How the brain organizes the retrieval of old and new memories remains unknown. Kim et al. identify a septo−entorhinal GABAergic pathway that controls flexible switching between...

Genoarchitecture and input–output organization of the mouse basal ganglia and thalamic parafascicular nucleus

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Tuesday, April 28, 2026 | Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 28 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41593-026-02253-9The authors investigate the transcriptomic and connectivity organization of the basal ganglia and parafascicular nucleus. The analyses suggest that combinatorial gene expression...

The prefrontal cortex controls memory organization in the hippocampus

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Tuesday, April 28, 2026 | Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 28 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41593-026-02231-1Related memories are sometimes encoded in overlapping neurons. The authors show that the prefrontal cortex controls this type of memory organization in the hippocampus through direct...

Cheese3D enables sensitive detection and analysis of whole-face movement in mice

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Monday, April 27, 2026 | Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 27 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41593-026-02262-8The authors developed Cheese3D, a hardware–software framework for precise and sensitive measurement of whole-face movements in mice that enables quantitative inference of neural and...

Brain motion is driven by mechanical coupling with the abdomen

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Monday, April 27, 2026 | Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 27 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41593-026-02279-zUsing two-photon imaging in mice, Garborg et al. show that brain movement within the skull is driven by abdominal muscle contractions through mechanical coupling with the abdomen....