Transposable elements are DNA sequences that can move within the genome. They play a pivotal role in genomic variability in humans and can cause diseases. Their repetitive nature requires specific computational algorithms ...

Cognition depends on rapid and robust communication between neural circuits spanning different brain areas. Here we investigated the mesoscopic network of cortico-cortical interactions in the human brain in an extensive ...

There is growing evidence that the nervous system is tuned and adapted to the sta- tistical properties of the sensory information from the surrounding environment and that it is possible that the brain performs some form ...

The basal ganglia (BG) are a set of subcortical nuclei involved in movement and other aspects of behavioral control. Diseases of the basal ganglia cause difficulty in the initiation and execution of movements. The main ...

Mitochondria are actively transported in all somatic cells where their motility is essential for proper cellular function. Mitochondrial transport relies on microtubules and a highly regulated motor/adaptor complex that ...

A fundamental challenge of visual cortical neuroscience is to understand how sensory representations are transformed within and across layers of primary visual cortex (V1). Visual signals are thought to propagate in a ...

In many animals, including both mammals and insects like Drosophila, dopamine is associated with learning, motivation, and regulation of voluntary movement. In mammals, the activity of individual dopaminergic neurons (DANs) ...

In nature, odor cues from distant objects are sparse and highly fluctuating due to turbulent airflow. Animals may integrate odor concentration sampled over time rather than rely on transient odor concentration to effectively ...

Cutaneous mechanoreceptors are a morphologically and functionally diverse class of primary sensory neurons in mammals that transduce mechanical stimuli acting on the skin into electrical impulses. These neurons reside in ...

Novelty drives animals’ active sampling of their environment and influences learning. Novel objects evoke characteristic behavioral responses such as approach, retreat, and avoidance of these objects, but how the complex ...