by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Tuesday, February 13, 2024 | Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 13 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01571-0Muller et al. demonstrate that reward signals recorded from the frontal cortex of nonhuman primates exhibit a population-based scheme for learning probability distributions over...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Monday, February 12, 2024 | Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 12 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41593-023-01562-7Wang et al. identify a molecularly defined tetra-synaptic pathway for olfaction-evoked innate fear and anxiety in mice. These findings reveal a forebrain-to-hindbrain neural...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Monday, February 12, 2024 | Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 12 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41593-023-01563-6Minakuchi et al. find that separable inhibitory inputs to a critical hypothalamic aggression-control node can influence the evolution of an aggressive state by independently...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Tuesday, February 6, 2024 | Neuroscience
CNS 2024 Q&A with Peter Kok From daily illusions like seeing animal shapes in clouds or mistaking a curtain for a person in a dark bedroom to more complex ones, like the “hollow mask illusion,” (screenshot at right/above) our prior experiences and expectations...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Thursday, January 18, 2024 | Neuroscience
CNS 2024 Q&A with Sheena Josselyn For the past few decades, Sheena Josselyn has had a ringside seat to some remarkable technological advancements that have enabled scientists to study memories in ways once only imaginable through science fiction. Viral vectors,...