1. Microglia are required for developmental specification of AgRP innervation in the hypothalamus of offspring exposed to maternal high-fat diet during lactation

    This article has 4 authors:
    1. Haley N Mendoza-Romero
    2. Jessica E Biddinger
    3. Michelle N Bedenbaugh
    4. Richard Simerly
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      The authors provide a valuable contribution by documenting the role of microglia in pruning the axon terminals of AgRP neurons. The analysis of microglial axonal pruning is solid; however, the analysis of the effects inhibiting microglia on subsequent food consumption is not fully complete.

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  2. Neocortical Layer-5 tLTD Relies on Non-Ionotropic Presynaptic NMDA Receptor Signaling

    This article has 5 authors:
    1. Aurore Thomazeau
    2. Sabine Rannio
    3. Jennifer A Brock
    4. Hovy Ho-Wai Wong
    5. P Jesper Sjöström
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      By using sparse Cre-dependent deletion of GluN1 subunit, in vitro quadruple patch clamp recordings, and pharmacological interventions, the authors show that spike timing dependent plasticity at between L5 synapses in the mouse visual cortex is: (i) dependent on presynaptic NMDA receptors; (ii) mediated by non-ionotropic NMDA receptor signaling, and (iii) reliant on presynaptic JNK2/Syntaxin-1a interactions. These fundamental findings advance our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying spike time dependent plasticity. The data are compelling and are supported by the elegant application of sophisticated experimental approaches.

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  3. Assemblies, synapse clustering, and network topology interact with plasticity to explain structure-function relationships of the cortical connectome

    This article has 13 authors:
    1. András Ecker
    2. Daniela Egas Santander
    3. Marwan Abdellah
    4. Jorge Blanco Alonso
    5. Sirio Bolaños-Puchet
    6. Giuseppe Chindemi
    7. Dhuruva Priyan Gowri Mariyappan
    8. James B Isbister
    9. James King
    10. Pramod Kumbhar
    11. Ioannis Magkanaris
    12. Eilif B Muller
    13. Michael W Reimann
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      This useful study presents a biologically realistic, large-scale cortical model of the rat's non-barrel somatosensory cortex, investigating synaptic plasticity of excitatory connections under varying patterns of external activations and characterizing relations between network architecture and plasticity outcomes. The model offers an impressive level of biological detail, addressing many aspects of the cellular and network anatomy and properties, and investigating their relationships to the biologically plausible plasticity. The numerical simulations appear to be well executed and documented, providing an excellent resource to the community. The evidence supporting the main conclusions is solid with results being more observational in nature, and minor weaknesses relating to the lack of explanatory power of causal relationships and mechanisms.

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  4. Cross-modal interaction of Alpha Activity does not reflect inhibition of early sensory processing: A frequency tagging study using EEG and MEG

    This article has 8 authors:
    1. Marion Brickwedde
    2. Rupali Limachya
    3. Roksana Markiewicz
    4. Emma Sutton
    5. Christopher Postzich
    6. Kimron Shapiro
    7. Ole Jensen
    8. Ali Mazaheri
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      This manuscript addresses the role of alpha oscillations in sensory gain control. The authors use an attention-cuing task in an initial EEG study followed by a separate MEG replication study to demonstrate that whilst (occipital) alpha oscillations are increased when anticipating an auditory target, so is visual responsiveness as assessed with frequency tagging. The authors propose that their results demonstrate a general vigilance effect on sensory processing and offer a re-interpretation of the inhibitory role of the alpha rhythm. While some concerns remain about the interpretation of the alpha inhibition hypothesis, these results are valuable, and the provided evidence is solid.

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  5. Distinct neural bases of subcomponents of the attentional blink

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    1. Swagata Halder
    2. Deepak Velgapuni Raya
    3. Devarajan Sridharan
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      This study provides an important contribution to our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the limited capacity to process rapid sequences of visual stimuli. It reports convincing evidence that the attentional blink affects neurally separable processes of visual detection and discrimination. The study will be of interest to neuroscientists and psychologists investigating perception and attention.

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  6. Probing the role of synaptic adhesion molecule RTN4RL2 in setting up cochlear connectivity

    This article has 13 authors:
    1. Nare Karagulyan
    2. Maja Überegger
    3. Yumeng Qi
    4. Norbert Babai
    5. Florian Hofer
    6. Lejo Johnson Chacko
    7. Fangfang Wang
    8. Maria Luque
    9. Rudolf Glueckert
    10. Anneliese Schrott-Fischer
    11. Yunfeng Hua
    12. Tobias Moser
    13. Christine Bandtlow
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      In this work, the authors characterize the synaptic adhesion molecule RTN4RL2, demonstrating its critical involvement in the development and function of auditory synapses between inner hair cells and spiral ganglion neurons. This study is important because it offers potential insights into therapeutic strategies for hearing loss associated with synaptic dysfunction. The findings are solid, because they are supported by the use of multiple advanced techniques, including FISH and SBEM imaging.

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  7. The replication principle revisited: a shared functional organization between pulvinar-cortical and cortico-cortical connectivity and its structural and molecular imaging correlates

    This article has 17 authors:
    1. Gianpaolo Antonio Basile
    2. Augusto Ielo
    3. Lilla Bonanno
    4. Antonio Cerasa
    5. Giuseppe Santoro
    6. Demetrio Milardi
    7. Giuseppe Pio Anastasi
    8. Ambra Torre
    9. Sergio Baldari
    10. Riccardo Laudicella
    11. Michele Gaeta
    12. Marina Quartu
    13. Maria Pina Serra
    14. Marcello Trucas
    15. Angelo Quartarone
    16. Manojkumar Saranathan
    17. Alberto Cacciola
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      This study presents a useful characterisation of the topographical organisation of the human pulvinar, an associative thalamic subregion crucial for visual perception and attention. The evidence supporting the conclusions is solid given the multimodal validation and replication across datasets, although even higher-resolution imaging data would have strengthened the study. In their revised manuscript, the authors elaborated further on the motivation for their study and conducted several robustness checks. Nevertheless, there remains an opportunity for a more fully integrated interpretation of the findings. The work would be of interest to neuroscientists, neurologists, and neuropsychiatrists working on pulvinar functioning in health and disease.

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  8. Virtual Brain Inference (VBI): A flexible and integrative toolkit for efficient probabilistic inference on virtual brain models

    This article has 6 authors:
    1. Abolfazl Ziaeemehr
    2. Marmaduke Woodman
    3. Lia Domide
    4. Spase Petkoski
    5. Viktor Jirsa
    6. Meysam Hashemi
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      This paper presents a valuable software package, named "Virtual Brain Inference" (VBI), that enables faster and more efficient inference of parameters in dynamical system models of whole-brain activity, grounded in artificial network networks for Bayesian statistical inference. The authors have provided solid evidence, across several case studies, for the utility and validity of the methods using simulated data from several commonly used models, but more thorough benchmarking could be used to demonstrate the reliability, generalizability, and practical utility of the toolkit. This work will be of interest to computational neuroscientists interested in modelling large-scale brain dynamics.

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  9. Cerebellar Purkinje cell stripe patterns reveal a differential vulnerability and resistance to cell loss during normal aging in mice

    This article has 6 authors:
    1. Sarah G Donofrio
    2. Cheryl Brandenburg
    3. Amanda M Brown
    4. Tao Lin
    5. Hsiang-Chih Lu
    6. Roy V Sillitoe
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      This study presents valuable findings on the patterned loss of Purkinje cells in the mouse cerebellum during aging. Convincing evidence shows that Purkinje cell loss with aging occurs in a pattern of parasagittal stripes in relationship with the zebrin-II expression pattern. Further evidence supporting the Purkinje cell aging loss pattern as it relates to human cerebellar aging would strengthen the study.

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  10. Locus coeruleus modulation of single-cell representation and population dynamics in the mouse prefrontal cortex during attentional switching

    This article has 5 authors:
    1. Marco Nigro
    2. Lucas Silva Tortorelli
    3. Machhindra Garad
    4. Natalie E Zlebnik
    5. Hongdian Yang
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      This study presents a valuable finding on how the locus coeruleus modulates the involvement of medial prefrontal cortex in set shifting using calcium imaging. The evidence supporting the claims was viewed as incomplete, although a more rigorous statistical comparison of intradimensional vs. extradimensional stages of the task, either in behavior or in the calcium imaging data, would help to address this concern. The work is of broad interest to those studying flexible cognition.

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