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1. GnRH pulse generator activity in mouse models of polycystic ovary syndrome

   This article has 8 authors:

   1. Ziyue Zhou
   2. Su Young Han
   3. Maria Pardo-Navarro
   4. Ellen Wall
   5. Reena Desai
   6. Szilvia Vas
   7. David J. Handelsman
   8. Allan E Herbison

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     This important study reports findings on the GnRH pulse generator's role in androgen-exposed mouse models, providing further insights into PCOS pathophysiology and advancing the field of reproductive endocrinology. The experimental data were collected using cutting-edge methodologies and were solid. However, it is noteworthy that the findings, while interesting, are primarily applicable to mouse models, and their translation to human physiology requires cautious interpretation and further validation. This work will be of interest to endocrinologists and reproductive biologists.

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2. A scene with an invisible wall - navigational experience shapes visual scene representation

   This article has 5 authors:

   1. Shi Pui Donald Li
   2. Jiayu Shao
   3. Zhengang Lu
   4. Michael McCloskey
   5. Soojin Park

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     This important study provides novel evidence that navigational experiences can shape perceptual scene representations. The evidence presented is incomplete and would benefit from clearer explanations of the experiment design and careful discussion of alternative interpretations such as contextual associations or familiarity. The work will be of interest to cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists working on perception and navigation.

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3. UNC-6/Netrin promotes both adhesion and directed growth within a single axon

   This article has 3 authors:

   1. Ev L Nichols
   2. Joo Lee
   3. Kang Shen

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     This paper makes fundamental contributions to understanding the mechanisms by which the conserved guidance cue UNC-6/Netrin controls the long-range growth and targeting of axons. Using state-of-the-art genetics and in vivo imaging, the authors provide solid support for the finding that UNC-6/Netrin can act via both chemotaxis and haptotaxis, though additional studies would be necessary to make these findings stronger. The paper's insights will be of interest to a variety of cell and developmental biologists and neuroscientists.

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4. An Anatomical and Physiological Basis for Flexible Coincidence Detection in the Auditory System

   This article has 6 authors:

   1. Lauren J Kreeger
   2. Suraj Honnuraiah
   3. Sydney Maeker
   4. Siobhan Shea
   5. Gord Fishell
   6. Lisa V Goodrich

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     This valuable work analyzes how specialized cells in the auditory cells, known as the octopus cells, can detect coincidences in their inputs at the submillisecond time scale. While previous work indicated that these cells receive no inhibitory inputs, the present study unambiguously demonstrates that these cells receive inhibitory glycinergic inputs. The physiologic impact of these inputs needs to be studied further. It remains incomplete at present but could be improved by addressing caveats related to similar sizes of excitatory postsynaptic potentials and spikes in the octopus neurons.

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5. Acquisition of auditory discrimination mediated by different processes through two distinct circuits linked to the lateral striatum

   This article has 13 authors:

   1. Susumu Setogawa
   2. Takashi Okauchi
   3. Di Hu
   4. Yasuhiro Wada
   5. Keigo Hikishima
   6. Hirotaka Onoe
   7. Kayo Nishizawa
   8. Nobuyuki Sakayori
   9. Hiroyuki Miyawaki
   10. Takuma Kitanishi
   11. Kenji Mizuseki
   12. Yilong Cui
   13. Kazuto Kobayashi

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     This study provides a potentially valuable understanding of the contribution of different striatal subregions, the anterior Dorsal Lateral Striatum (aDLS) and the posterior Ventrolateral Striatum (pVLS), to auditory discrimination learning. The combined methods used to probe this are compelling, yet the data presented are incomplete to support the conclusions. There is insufficient data visualization of learning vs. performance, and missing details about timing of manipulations and microPET imaging.

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6. Modeling and Simulation of Neocortical Micro- and Mesocircuitry. Part I: Anatomy

   This article has 43 authors:

   1. Michael W Reimann
   2. Sirio Bolaños-Puchet
   3. Jean-Denis Courcol
   4. Daniela Egas Santander
   5. Alexis Arnaudon
   6. Benoît Coste
   7. Fabien Delalondre
   8. Thomas Delemontex
   9. Adrien Devresse
   10. Hugo Dictus
   11. Alexander Dietz
   12. András Ecker
   13. Cyrille Favreau
   14. Gianluca Ficarelli
   15. Mike Gevaert
   16. Joni Herttuainen
   17. James B Isbister
   18. Lida Kanari
   19. Daniel Keller
   20. James King
   21. Pramod Kumbhar
   22. Samuel Lapere
   23. Jᾱnis Lazovskis
   24. Huanxiang Lu
   25. Nicolas Ninin
   26. Fernando Pereira
   27. Judit Planas
   28. Christoph Pokorny
   29. Juan Luis Riquelme
   30. Armando Romani
   31. Ying Shi
   32. Jason P Smith
   33. Vishal Sood
   34. Mohit Srivastava
   35. Werner Van Geit
   36. Liesbeth Vanherpe
   37. Matthias Wolf
   38. Ran Levi
   39. Kathryn Hess
   40. Felix Schürmann
   41. Eilif B Muller
   42. Henry Markram
   43. Srikanth Ramaswamy

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     This manuscript reports a detailed model of juvenile rat somatosensory cortex, consisting of 4.2 million morphologically and biophysically detailed neuron models, arranged in space and connected according to diverse experimental data - a valuable tool for the field. The construction of the model is based on a methodology with solid supporting evidence. It should be noted that, by necessity, such a large-scale model development involves many assumptions, interpolations, and decisions that could have compounding downstream effects on further analyses that may be difficult to disambiguate.

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7. Cross-species alignment along the chronological axis reveals evolutionary effect on structural development of human brain

   This article has 5 authors:

   1. Yue Li
   2. Qinyao Sun
   3. Shunli Zhu
   4. Congying Chu
   5. Jiaojian Wang

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     This important study compared the brain development trajectories of humans and macaque monkeys to quantify different evolutionary effects of convergent and divergent neural pathways between the two species. The cross-species evidence is solid, based on brain age prediction models that were carefully developed by using public MRI datasets of both humans and macaque monkeys. The findings will be of interest to neuroscientists, developmental biologists, and evolutionary biologists.

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8. Multimodal neural correlates of childhood psychopathology

   This article has 10 authors:

   1. Jessica Royer
   2. Valeria Kebets
   3. Camille Piguet
   4. Jianzhong Chen
   5. Leon Qi Rong Ooi
   6. Matthias Kirschner
   7. Vanessa Siffredi
   8. Bratislav Misic
   9. B.T. Thomas Yeo
   10. Boris C. Bernhardt

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     This important study explores and delineates multivariate mappings between brain structure and functional measures with latent dimensions of psychopathology. This work provides solid evidence for the existence of such mappings and charts the relationship between different neurobiological measures and distinct dimensions of psychopathology. This work will be of broad interest within the neuroscience field.

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9. A rapid phylogeny-based method for accurate community profiling of large-scale metabarcoding datasets

   This article has 2 authors:

   1. Lenore Pipes
   2. Rasmus Nielsen

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     This potentially important work presents a tool for performing phylogenetic taxonomic classification of DNA sequences. In terms of methodology, the work is compelling. The authors perform a benchmark experiment against current state-of-the-art tools using real and simulated datasets to demonstrate where the novel tool stands in the context of existing methods. However, the experimentation is still incomplete. It would benefit from a more thorough exploration of existing methods as well as data sets that better represent real-world use cases.

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10. The Arthropoda-specific Tramtrack group BTB protein domains use previously unknown interface to form hexamers

    This article has 12 authors:

    1. Artem N Bonchuk
    2. Konstantin I Balagurov
    3. Rozbeh Baradaran
    4. Konstantin M Boyko
    5. Nikolai N Sluchanko
    6. Anastasia M Khrustaleva
    7. Anna D Burtseva
    8. Olga V Arkova
    9. Karina K Khalisova
    10. Vladimir O Popov
    11. Andreas Naschberger
    12. Pavel G Georgiev

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      This important work offers an experimental structural characterization of the Tramtrack-like BTB/POZ domains in insects, revealing that these domains form stable hexameric assemblies. The structural evidence is convincing, and validated by fold prediction and evolutionary pathway analyses. This paper would be of interest to structural and evolutionary biologists.

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