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- 1From: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedRelapse is one of the major problems that people face when trying to overcome drug addiction, but the changes that occur in the dorsal striatum--an area that is thought to be involved in habit formation--during drug...
- 2From: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedLong-term potentiation and long-term depression (LTP and LTD) are thought to underlie learning and memory, although direct evidence for a causal relationship is scarce. The authors showed that preventing the...
- 3From: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedPerceptual decision making is the act of choosing one option or course of action from a set of alternatives on the basis of available sensory evidence. Thus, when we make such decisions, sensory information must be...
- 4From: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe question of whether humans have free will has been discussed for centuries by philosophers and religious scholars, and more recently by neuroscientists. Haynes and colleagues have now added fuel to the debate by...
- 5From: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedWorking memory capacity is limited, but it is unclear whether this limitation is reflected in the quality (the detail) or the quantity of stored items. Using either three or six differently coloured squares as stimuli,...
- 6From: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedA central aim of neuroscience is to map neural circuits, in order to learn how they account for mental activities and behaviours and how alterations in them lead to neurological and psychiatric disorders. However, the...
- 7From: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedIt was hoped that transplanting fetal dopaminergic neurons into the brains of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) would provide a breakthrough in the management of the disease and possibly even lead to a cure....
- 8From: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe degeneration of retinal photoreceptor cells is the underlying cause of blindness in conditions such as retinitis pigmentosa. Here the authors expressed the light-sensitive ion channel channelrhodopsin 2 in 'ON'...
- 9From: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedMicturition, or urination, occurs involuntarily in infants and young children until the age of 3 to 5 years, after which it is regulated voluntarily. The neural circuitry that controls this process is complex and highly...
- 10From: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedEnvironmental enrichment (EE) has many beneficial effects on brain function. Here, post-weaning EE decreased the rewarding and stimulant effects of cocaine in adult mice. EE did not alter striatal dopamine levels, but it...
- 11From: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedTwo independent studies recently reported significant improvements in the vision of legally blind individuals after gene therapy. The subjects were all sufferers of Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA), a condition caused...
- 12From: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedA baby's babbling might seem to be meaningless, but it is actually an important step in the acquisition of language: such 'exploratory' motor behaviours, coupled with the sensory feedback that they evoke, help infants to...
- 13From: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedFast, repetitive synaptic stimulation wears a neuron out. The decrease in response to neurotransmitter that ensues, known as postsynaptic depression, is typically attributed to receptor desensitization. Heine and...
- 14From: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedMale Drosophila melanogaster court females with a courtship 'song' created by distinctive wing vibrations. The females themselves do not normally sing but, by inducing male-like singing in genetically manipulated...
- 15From: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe authors showed that during a goods-distribution task that involved making a trade-off between fairness and efficiency, activity in the insula and the putamen correlated with the two options' levels of inequity and...
- 16From: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe contributions of microRNAs (miRNAs) to neural function and disease are subject to increasing scrutiny. Building on this growing knowledge, a new paper now indicates that alterations in the production of miRNAs might...
- 17From: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedSchizophrenia is a highly debilitating mental disorder that affects-1% of the general population, yet it continues to be poorly understood. Recent studies have identified variations in several genes that are associated...
- 18From: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe functional roles of the endogenous prion protein PrPC are not well understood. In this study, the authors show that basal excitability and levels of NMDA receptor (NMDAR)-mediated excitotoxic cell death in...
- 19From: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedIn the cerebellum, stellate interneurons make synapses onto a specific subcellular compartment of Purkinje cells: the dendritic shaft. The authors shed light on the cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate the...
- 20From: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedExperimental and clinical data have demonstrated that activating the immune system in the CNS can be destructive. However, other studies have shown that enhancing an immune response can be therapeutic, and several...