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Research . . . Unconscious manipulation of visual attention can affect individual risk choices.
Time of Update: 2020-07-23
to explore whether there is a causal relationship between visual attention and risk decision-making, Rao Lilin, a young distinguished researcher from Li Shu research group, Key Laboratory of behavioral science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, led the students to carry out relevant research.
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Neuron: Find the fateful switch in the retina where the trail is split.
Time of Update: 2020-07-23
} the development and change of sac in retina from embryonic stage to postnatal stage (photo source: reference [1]) how to find the key genes that determine different fate from these differentially expressed genes?
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Scientists have found that excitement in the visual cortex loop - inhibits the rhythmic oscillation of balance.
Time of Update: 2020-07-23
He Kaiwen, a researcher at the interdisciplinary research center of biology and chemistry, Shanghai Institute of organic chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Alfredo Kirkwood team of Johns Hopkins University for the first time found that the balance between excitation and inhibition (E / I balance) of neurons showed rhythmic oscillation in the circadian cycle.
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Cell's Vision. Decoding memory: Reveals the brain's conceptual cells with a single neuronrecord of the human brain.
Time of Update: 2020-07-23
Professor Quiroga summarized two important functions of concept cells through electrophysiological recording of single neurons in human brain and task training for patients: (1) forming meaningful association and tracing back; (2) directing and jointly activating sensory representation of neocortex.
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Progress has been made in the study of itch-control mechanisms.
Time of Update: 2020-07-23
neurons expressing gastrin releasing peptide receptor (GRPR +) in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord play an important role in itching signal processing, but how these neurons are regulated by the local spinal cord and long-term inhibitory loops of the medulla oblongata is unknown.
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EEE emotion recognition: the brain function connection network is combined with local activation information.
Time of Update: 2020-07-23
in this paper, the information network transmission patterns of different brain regions and the differences of brain activation are integrated to improve the ability of emotion recognition.
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Dev Cell. Song Yan group reveals a new mechanism by which transcription factors drive end-of-life differentiation of neurons through phase separation.
Time of Update: 2020-07-23
this study revealed a new phenomenon and mechanism that a transcription factor was "implanted" into mitotic chromosomes of neural precursor cells through liquid-liquid phase separation during the development of Drosophila melanogaster, and ensured neuronal terminal differentiation by promoting h3k9me3 + heterochromatin condensation.
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Today's Cell reveals another new feature of the nervous system: In the face of bacterial infections, I hit hard!
Time of Update: 2020-07-23
} the illustration of this study (photo source: reference [1]) "it is clear that the nervous system directly acts on infectious organisms and regulates immune capacity in a variety of ways.
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Cell Voice: Where does oxygen perception go after the Nobel prize boom?
Time of Update: 2020-07-23
in the future, we may need to pay more attention to the research of 2-oxoglutarate dependent dioxygenase, epigenetics, mitochondrial signaling, ion channels, peptide synthesis and other in vivo energy metabolism processes in hypoxia inducible factor dependent oxygen perception.
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The secret of music without borders: a string of mysterious codes in the left and right of the human brain.
Time of Update: 2020-07-22
a research entitled "universality and diversity of human songs" conducted by the science department of the University explored whether music from different cultures has the same characteristics.
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Nature. Wang Fei/Wang Kaiyu and others reveal the neurobiological mechanisms of insect spawning.
Time of Update: 2020-07-22
however, after mating, the activity of sex short peptide pathway decreased, and the inhibition on ovidn also decreased, so female flies preferred to lay eggs.
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New mechanism of the onset of Alzheimer's disease in Nature: inflammatory small body activation drives Tau pathological changes.
Time of Update: 2020-07-22
nlrp1 and nlrc 4 can induce inflammatory body assembly and cell death independently of ASC.
nlpr3nlrp3 is the sensor of NLRP3 inflammatory bodies (adapter ASC (pycard) and effector molecule (caspase 1)), which is composed of N-terminal PYD domain, central NBD domain and C-terminal LRR domain.
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Science . . . Black matter: the common center of sleep and motor control.
Time of Update: 2020-07-22
in general, the work of Yang Dan's research group revealed that gad2 rather than PV neurons in the reticular area of substantia nigra can promote sleep production, especially the initiation of non REM sleep, and the activation of PV neurons is mainly responsible for the termination of motor state.
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Neuron. Dr. Cui and others used machine learning to study changes in brain network morphology in childhood and adolescence and their relationship to cognitive abilities.
Time of Update: 2020-07-22
Oates, Aaron, Alexander Bloch, Armin, razahan, David R, David R, Russell T, T.
Shinohara, Daniel h, wolf, Christos, Davids, Daniels, Bassett, Damien, Damien, Damien, Alexander Bloch, Daniel h A.
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WIREs Developmental Biology . . . Studying the link between cilia and signaling pathways helps to understand nervous system development.
Time of Update: 2020-07-22
Eduardo gigante and Tamara caspery, professors at Emory University School of medicine in Atlanta, recently published a study in wires developmental biology, which suggested that studying the relationship between cilia and signal pathways could help us understand the development of nervous system.
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Cell . . . Create a visual network map of the cerebrovascular vessels.
Time of Update: 2020-07-22
the cerebral vascular system spans multiple scales, ranging from microns of capillaries to a few millimeters of blood vessels, forming a highly complex network.
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Nature reveals the latest neural loops that control feeding, or help with weight loss.
Time of Update: 2020-07-22
whether Pb PDYN neurons participate in feeding behavior and whether they receive mechanical sensory signals from digestive tract.
these results suggest that the main role of Pb PDYN neurons is to integrate the mechanical sensory signals from the digestive tract and further participate in feeding.
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Science . . . Fudan University and other 296 units around the world have collaborated to systematically reveal for the first time the genetic basis of the human cerebral cortex.
Time of Update: 2020-07-22
in conclusion, this work has identified important genomic sites related to cortical surface area and cortical thickness, and has led to a better understanding of the genetic structure and pattern of human cerebral cortex.
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"Heart-brained"? The Allen Institute found that when the heart beats, the brain shakes, revealing for the first time how to achieve a scale span in the human brain.
Time of Update: 2020-07-22
Clayton Mosher, CO first author of the paper from cedars Sinai Medical Center, and Yina from Allen Institute "We recorded neurons from patients who had implanted electrodes for neurosurgery, and compared neural activity to heart rate, and found that many neurons changed their firing patterns every time a heartbeat occurred," Wei said.
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PNAS: Human cognitive ability develops rapidly in adolescence, and the structural-functional coupling of the brain plays an important role!
Time of Update: 2020-07-22
end reference: [1] development of structure – function coupling in human brain networks during youth [2] research findings changes in neural circuits underlying self-control during intervention
