Neuroscience

A Myelin Map of Trunk Folds in the Elephant Trigeminal Nucleus

1. Noémie Reveyaz
2. Undine Schneeweiß
3. Olivia Heise
4. Ben Gerhardt
5. Andreea M Gui
6. Lena V Kaufmann
7. Jette Alfken
8. Jakob Reichmann
9. Tim Salditt
10. Thomas Hildebrandt
11. Michael Brecht

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This valuable study uses neuroanatomical techniques to investigate somatosensory projections from the elephant trunk to the brainstem. Given its unique specializations, understanding how the elephant trunk is represented within the brain is of general interest to evolutionary and comparative neuroscientists. The authors present solid evidence for the existence of a novel isomorphism in which the folds of the trunk are mapped onto the trigeminal nucleus; however, due to their unusual structure, some uncertainty remains about the identification and anatomical organization of nuclei within the elephant brainstem.

Reviewed by eLife

CAT: a computational anatomy toolbox for the analysis of structural MRI data

1. Christian Gaser
2. Robert Dahnke
3. Paul M Thompson
4. Florian Kurth
5. Eileen Luders
6. the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

Reviewed by GigaScience

Overnight fasting facilitates safety learning by changing the neurophysiological response to relief from threat omission

1. Silvia Papalini
2. Tom Beckers
3. Lukas Van Oudenhove
4. Bram Vervliet

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This study on the effects of fasting on safety learning rests on basic premises and concepts that both reviewers found difficult to follow. If these can be clarified, the findings may well be useful and of some utility for the field of emotional learning as well as experimental clinical psychology. However, the main claims of the study are only partially supported and are therefore incomplete.

Reviewed by eLife

An Intra-brainstem Circuit for Pain-induced Inhibition of Itch

1. Jagat Narayan Prajapati
2. Devanshi Piyush Shah
3. Arnab Barik

Reviewed by Arcadia Science