Neuroscience

Krause corpuscles of the genitalia are vibrotactile sensors required for normal sexual behavior

1. Lijun Qi
2. Michael Iskols
3. Annie Handler
4. David D. Ginty

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Retinal input integration in excitatory and inhibitory neurons in the mouse superior colliculus in vivo

1. Carolin Gehr
2. Jeremie Sibille
3. Jens Kremkow

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  eLife assessment

  This valuable study contributes to understanding how retinal activity shapes the response properties of excitatory and inhibitory neurons in a major visual target, the superior colliculus. The evidence supporting the claim is convincing: the work is technically excellent yet the interpretation of these results assumes an unbiased sampling and integration of the RGC axon in the SC, a caveat pointed out by the authors. Overall, this study provides insights into the integration of visual information from the eye to the brain, and this work will be of interest to visual neuroscientists.

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Per-ischemic changes in penumbral blood supply and its microscopic distribution

1. Nina K. Iversen
2. Eugenio Gutierréz Jimenéz
3. Peter Mondrup Rasmussen
4. Hugo Angelys
5. Irene Klærke Mikkelsen
6. Tristan R. Hollyer
7. Leif Østergaard

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  eLife assessment

  This manuscript provides a useful characterization of penumbral microvascular flow disturbances over the first hours after ischemia onset in a rat model of middle cerebral artery occlusion. This work suggests that there are microscopic changes (including directionality of capillary blood flow and formation of capillary stalls) during the peri-ischemic timeframe but the data are incomplete and not sufficient to support the claims.

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An antagonism between Spinophilin and Syd-1 operates upstream of memory-promoting presynaptic long-term plasticity

1. Niraja Ramesh
2. Marc Escher
3. Oriane Turrel
4. Janine Lützkendorf
5. Tanja Matkovic
6. Fan Liu
7. Stephan J Sigrist

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  eLife assessment

  This paper addresses the important question of presynaptic homeostasis and convincingly demonstrates antagonistic interactions between Spinophilin and Syd-1 in this process. It also provides a useful hypothesis for the downstream mechanisms.

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A class-specific effect of dysmyelination on the excitability of hippocampal interneurons

1. Delphine Pinatel
2. Edouard Pearlstein
3. Giulia Bonetto
4. Laurence Goutebroze
5. Domna Karagogeos
6. Valérie Crepel
7. Catherine Faivre-Sarrailh

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  eLife assessment

  This important study identifies the functional consequence of myelination of interneuronal axons on circuit function by showing that 4.1B deletion leads to altered myelination in a subset of interneurons and altered intrinsic and synaptic physiological parameters. The authors' conclusions about how myelination of inhibitory axons affects physiological properties are based on solid evidence using a combination of imaging and electrophysiological approaches.

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Flexible coding of time or distance in hippocampal cells

1. Shai Abramson
2. Benjamin J Kraus
3. John A White
4. Michael E Hasselmo
5. Dori Derdikman
6. Genela Morris

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  eLife assessment

  The manuscript by Abramson and colleagues is a new analysis of previously published data from experiments in which rats ran on a treadmill in either fixed-time or fixed-distance trials. The valuable results provide solid evidence to demonstrate that time and distance cells are more common in fixed-time and fixed-distance trials, respectively. These findings suggest that the hippocampus flexibly shifts between representing variables depending on their relevance.

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A neural network model of hippocampal contributions to category learning

1. Jelena Sučević
2. Anna C Schapiro

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  Evaluation Summary:

  This paper will be of broad interest to researchers interested in learning, memory, and/or the hippocampus. It offers a neuroanatomically inspired model of the hippocampus that reconciles its well-known role in episodic memory with its more recently appreciated role in category learning and generalization. The computational simulations are well conducted and support the key conclusions regarding complementary roles of distinct hippocampal pathways for different forms of learning. There are concerns with differentiating the current work from prior reports and the apparent discrepancy between the proposed model and well-established findings of place and concept cell recordings in hippocampus, but thought that these issues could be potentially resolved with additional clarification.

  (This preprint has been reviewed by eLife. We include the public reviews from the reviewers here; the authors also receive private feedback with suggested changes to the manuscript. The reviewers remained anonymous to the authors.)

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Deciphering neuronal deficit and protein profile changes in human brain organoids from patients with creatine transporter deficiency

1. Léa Broca-Brisson
2. Rania Harati
3. Clémence Disdier
4. Orsolya Mozner
5. Romane Gaston-Breton
6. Auriane Maïza
7. Narciso Costa
8. Anne-Cécile Guyot
9. Balazs Sarkadi
10. Agota Apati
11. Matthew R Skelton
12. Lucie Madrange
13. Frank Yates
14. Jean Armengaud
15. Rifat Hamoudi
16. Aloïse Mabondzo

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  eLife assessment

  This is an important study highlighting how a single protein transporter dysfunction can significantly alter brain biochemistry, potentially playing a crucial role in the intellectual disability in creatine transporter deficiency (CTD) patients. The evidence is compelling that the new in vitro CTD model using CTD patient's brain organoid cultures will be widely applicable. Despite minor areas for further exploration, the study significantly enhances our understanding of CTD, offering potential therapeutic targets and a robust foundation for continued research in the field.

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Harmonized cross-species cell atlases of trigeminal and dorsal root ganglia

1. Shamsuddin A. Bhuiyan
2. Mengyi Xu
3. Lite Yang
4. Evangelia Semizoglou
5. Parth Bhatia
6. Katerina I. Pantaleo
7. Ivan Tochitsky
8. Aakanksha Jain
9. Burcu Erdogan
10. Steven Blair
11. Victor Cat
12. Juliet M. Mwirigi
13. Ishwarya Sankaranarayanan
14. Diana Tavares-Ferreira
15. Ursula Green
16. Lisa A. McIlvried
17. Bryan A. Copits
18. Zachariah Bertels
19. John S. Del Rosario
20. Allie J. Widman
21. Richard A. Slivicki
22. Jiwon Yi
23. Reza Sharif-Naeini
24. Clifford J. Woolf
25. Jochen K. Lennerz
26. Jessica L. Whited
27. Theodore J. Price
28. Robert W. Gereau IV
29. William Renthal

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Resting-state fMRI signals contain spectral signatures of local hemodynamic response timing

1. Sydney M Bailes
2. Daniel EP Gomez
3. Beverly Setzer
4. Laura D Lewis

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  eLife assessment

  This manuscript addresses the important issue of hemodynamic response function (HRF) variability across brain areas and will be valuable to researchers who use fMRI and other types of functional imaging that rely on neurovascular coupling. Using simulations and experiments, the authors provide solid evidence that differences in the HRF can impact spectrum-based metrics such as ALFF and fALFF. A better understanding of the variability of the HRF is critical for the proper interpretation of activation onset times and of differences observed in clinical populations where both neural and vascular alterations can be expected.

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