Neuroscience

LINC complex alterations are a hallmark of sporadic and familial ALS/FTD

1. Riccardo Sirtori
2. Michelle Gregoire
3. Emily Potts
4. Alicia Collins
5. Liviana Donatelli
6. Claudia Fallini

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Episodic boundaries affect neural features of representational drift in humans

1. Nimay Kulkarni
2. Bradley C. Lega

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  eLife assessment

  This valuable study presents a novel analysis of a large human intracranial electrophysiological recording dataset. The study challenges the traditional view that neural responses to word lists exhibit smoothly drifting contexts over time, showing that items just after a boundary have a characteristic response that occurs repeatedly. The evidence is incomplete, however, leaving open the possibility for alternative explanations.

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Neuroinfectiology of an atypical anthrax-causing pathogen in wild chimpanzees

1. Tobias Gräßle
2. Carsten Jäger
3. Evgeniya Kirilina
4. Jenny E. Jaffe
5. Penelope Carlier
6. Andrea Pizarro
7. Anna Jauch
8. Katja Reimann
9. Ilona Lipp
10. EBC consortium
11. Roman M. Wittig
12. Catherine Crockford
13. Nikolaus Weiskopf
14. Fabian H. Leendertz
15. Markus Morawski

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  eLife assessment

  This useful article provides evidence of the potential neuropathogenicity of Bacillus cereus serovar anthracis in wild chimpanzees. The authors provide an extensive characterization of four chimpanzees that died acutely from anthrax. The study provides incomplete traditional histopathologic evidence of neuroinvasion since the meninges could not be evaluated, which weakens the authors' conclusions. The work will be of interest to infectious disease researchers.

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