by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Friday, August 2, 2024 | Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 02 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01724-1Studying GnRH neuroendocrine cells in the mouse olfactory bulb (GnRHOB neurons), Decoster et al. show that these cells respond to female odors and their activation regulates males’...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, July 29, 2024 | Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 29 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01711-6Task demands are a primary determiner of behavior and neurophysiology. Here the authors discuss how understanding their influence through multitask studies and tests of generalization...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, July 29, 2024 | Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 29 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01704-5Ehret et al. uncover neural activity patterns in the prefrontal cortex that link sensory stimuli to learned behavioral responses by isolating interpretable activity patterns that are...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Thursday, July 25, 2024 | Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 25 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01705-4The hypothesis that dopamine reports reward prediction errors has been both influential and controversial. This Perspective characterizes the present state of evidence, indicating where...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Thursday, July 25, 2024 | Neuroscience
Many neurons including vasopressin (VP) magnocellular neurosecretory cells (MNCs) of the hypothalamic supraoptic nucleus (SON) generate afterhyperpolarizations (AHPs) during spiking to slow firing, a phenomenon known as spike frequency adaptation. The AHP is underlain...
