Neuroscience

eLife Assessment

This fundamental work demonstrates that ABHD6 regulates AMPAR gating kinetics in a TARP γ-2-dependent manner. The evidence in this study is compelling. This study will be of interest to readers in the field of synaptic transmission.

eLife Assessment

This valuable study advances our understanding of best practices for analyzing population-level data using advanced functional alignment methods. It provides convincing evidence that demographic-specific functional templates improve functional neuroimaging studies that use hyperalignment. This study will be of interest to cognitive neuroscientists, neuroimaging methodologists, and computational researchers with an interest in the human brain.

eLife Assessment

Using fMRI-based pRF mapping, this important study presents a novel method for estimating visual field (VF) loss and potential restoration by analyzing contrast-sensitivity patterns in early visual cortex. The evidence supporting the main claims is convincing. This work will be of broad interest to researchers in vision and clinical vision, neuroscience, and brain imaging.

eLife Assessment

This important study establishes the first vertebrate models of DeSanto-Shinawi Syndrome, revealing conserved craniofacial and social and behavioral phenotypes across mouse and zebrafish that mirror key clinical features. The convincing evidence is supported by behavioral, anatomical, and molecular analyses of Wac animal mutants. This study sets a baseline for future mechanistic studies and reports a platform to test approaches to reverse phenotypes.

eLife Assessment

Overall, this is a manuscript with solid evidence that delivers an important community resource for those performing experimental research in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The authors address the lack of validated tools for the detection and quantification of proteins associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) through an extensive screening of 303 commercially available antibodies to 33 protein targets. The effort invested in generating the knockout lines for validation experiments is a clear strength of the study.

eLife Assessment

This important study provides a quantitative comparison of how zebrafish and medaka larvae process visual motion, revealing clear differences in how they integrate information across space and time. The evidence is convincing, combining a broad set of behavioral assays with response decomposition and mechanistic modeling that together support the central conclusions. Some aspects remain incomplete, particularly the link between the spatial and temporal findings, the extent to which the model accounts for the full range of behavioral results, and the framing of broader evolutionary or social interpretations. Overall, the work offers a careful and informative analysis that should be of broad interest to researchers studying visual processing, sensorimotor computation, and comparative neuroscience.

eLife Assessment

This study presents a large-scale characterization of single-neuron responses during reading and listening, enabling examination of both 'low-level' (orthographic/phonological) and 'higher-level' (syntactic) features, as well as links between single-neuron activity and multi-scale field potentials, making it a valuable resource for bridging micro- and macroscale accounts of language processing. The analyses identify modality-specific and putatively modality-independent responses across distributed brain regions, offering an intriguing framework for understanding how sensory-specific and abstract representations may relate. However, the evidence supporting the central claims is currently incomplete, due to limited population-level quantification, insufficient statistical characterization of how many neurons encode the relevant features, ambiguity in the interpretation of encoding model results, and a lack of rigorous tests of cross-modal generalization and alternative accounts, which together weaken the conclusions about amodal representations and hierarchical processing.

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This is a valuable survey of movements and locomotor patterns produced by circuits in the medial reticular formation (MRF) of the brainstem. The authors provide solid evidence that activation of GABAergic MRF neurons slowed down walking, activation of glutamatergic neurons induced a specific "shuffle" limb trajectory, and the activation of serotonergic neurons increased locomotor speed without affecting walking signature. This study adds to the growing body of knowledge about the effects of brainstem circuits on specific aspects of locomotor function.

eLife Assessment

This important study examines the effects of diet and exercise on brain structure and behaviour in the 3xTg mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. They show that combined access to a low-fat diet and exercise improves regional brain volume and behaviour in transgenic and wild-type control mice in a sex-specific manner, with analyses linking functional improvements to glucose homeostasis. Although some claims are well supported, the overall strength of the evidence is incomplete and hampered by a lack of clarity regarding the statistical analyses chosen. The work may be of interest to researchers studying neurodegenerative disease, particularly in preclinical contexts.

eLife Assessment

The paper presents a valuable finding that the human brain and models that incorporate sentence structures can capture sentence-level semantics beyond word meaning, while large language models behave differently. The evidence supporting the authors' claims is solid, though the stimuli are highly controlled and some analyses could be more thorough. This work will be of interest to researchers in language neuroscience and those developing language models.