by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Thursday, September 19, 2024 | Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 19 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01744-xNeuronal recordings show that primate superior colliculus encodes learned abstract visual categories. The authors demonstrate that it plays a causal role in categorization...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Thursday, September 19, 2024 | Neuroscience
Navigation requires integrating sensory information with a stable schema to create a dynamic map of an animal’s position using egocentric and allocentric coordinate systems. In the hippocampus, place cells encode allocentric space, but their firing rates may also...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Thursday, September 19, 2024 | Neuroscience
Millisecond-scale temporal spiking patterns encode sensory information in the periphery, but their role in the neocortex remains controversial. The sense of touch provides a window into temporal coding because tactile neurons often exhibit precise, repeatable, and...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Wednesday, September 18, 2024 | Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01753-wEarly in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), brain blood flow is reduced by pericytes constricting capillaries. Korte et al. show that oral nimodipine can reverse this and decrease brain...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Wednesday, September 18, 2024 | Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01757-6ApoE4 is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia. We report that in ApoE4 mice perivascular macrophages are the sole source and effectors of the ApoE4 mediating...
