by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Tuesday, January 7, 2025 | Neuroscience
CNS 2025: Q&A with Marie Banich Marie Banich’s journey in cognitive neuroscience started with very personal motivations: first from a curiosity about what her family’s propensity for left handedness meant and then to a drive to help people who suffer from unwanted...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, January 6, 2025 | Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 06 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01833-xMicroglia are proposed to have a role in brain development through synaptic engulfment and paracrine signaling. O’Keeffe et al. show that certain neurodevelopmental processes...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, January 6, 2025 | Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 06 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01847-5This article discusses a puzzling issue in brain pathology: why brain-resident microglia are insufficient for protection, and why myeloid cells are needed from the periphery. Several...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, January 6, 2025 | Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 06 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01849-3Hehlert et al. report that the gating spring that pulls open mechanosensitive NOMPC channels is not their helical ankyrin tether, but instead an elastic hinge that suspends that...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, January 6, 2025 | Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 06 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01839-5The brain uses different valuation schemes across contexts. Elston and Wallis show this is supported by hippocampal encoding of context that is broadcast to prefrontal value...
