Neuroscience

Excitation–inhibition balance controls coupling stability and network reorganization in a plastic Kuramoto model

1. Satoshi Kuroki
2. Kenji Mizuseki

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  eLife Assessment

  This useful study investigates how plasticity and homeostatic adaptation can lead to the emergence of synchronization patterns associated with different sleep phases. The ideas are novel and interesting, but the evidence at present remains incomplete. Further work is needed to determine whether the reported states persist for larger system sizes, longer integration times, and how robust the results are to different initial conditions.

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The openretina Project: Collaborative Retina Modelling Across Datasets and Species

1. Federico D’Agostino
2. Thomas Zenkel
3. Baptiste Lorenzi
4. Michaela Vystrčilová
5. Dominic Gonschorek
6. Samuel Suhai
7. Samuele Virgili
8. Alexander S Ecker
9. Olivier Marre
10. Larissa Höfling
11. Thomas Euler
12. Matthias Bethge

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  eLife Assessment

  This manuscript presents openretina, an open-source platform that integrates retinal datasets, model training, benchmarking, and in silico analysis tools within a unified framework. The resource is valuable because it addresses long-standing challenges in reproducibility, accessibility, and cross-study comparison in computational retina research, while providing a foundation for community-driven model development and evaluation. The supporting evidence is solid, with the authors demonstrating a functional and well-documented platform across multiple datasets and species, although a clearer discussion of model interpretability, current performance limitations, and data quality standards would strengthen the resource.

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Neurons, Muscles, and Venom: Elucidating a Neural-to-Secretory Pathway in Cephalopod Predation

1. Kim N. Kirchhoff
2. José Ramón Pardos-Blas
3. Amy Courtney
4. Belkes Stambouli
5. Andrew L. Sugarman
6. Daniel J. Vanselow
7. Melvin Williams
8. Christian Carrasco
9. Mariam Gelashvilli
10. Cecilia Cuddy
11. Praveena Naidu
12. William R. Schafer
13. Keith C. Cheng
14. Eve Seuntjens
15. Mandë Holford

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