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    Single motor neurons in Drosophila are stimulated to show that they direct head movements towards specific postures rather than generating fixed movement vectors, suggesting that the brain controls movements through a continuing proprioceptive–motor loop.

    • Benjamin Gorko
    • , Igor Siwanowicz
    •  & Stephen J. Huston

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    | Open Access

    Longitudinal calcium imaging reveals the ability of corner cells to synchronize their activity with the environment, with the results implying the potential of the subiculum to contain the information required to reconstruct spatial environments.

    • Yanjun Sun
    • , Douglas A. Nitz
    •  & Lisa M. Giocomo

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    In mice, a population of astrocytes in the central striatum, characterized by expression of μ-crystallin, has a role in perseveration phenotypes that are often associated with human neuropsychiatric disorders.

    • Matthias Ollivier
    • , Joselyn S. Soto
    •  & Baljit S. Khakh

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    Excitatory pyramidal neurons preferentially target inhibitory interneurons with the same selectivity and, in turn, inhibitory interneurons preferentially target pyramidal neurons with opposite selectivity, forming an opponent inhibition motif that supports decision-making.

    • Aaron T. Kuan
    • , Giulio Bondanelli
    •  & Wei-Chung Allen Lee

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    Neural population activity in the medial entorhinal cortex of mice can be organized into ultraslow oscillatory sequences, with periods extending up to the minute range.

    • Soledad Gonzalo Cogno
    • , Horst A. Obenhaus
    •  & Edvard I. Moser

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    This Perspective reviews successful applications of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and presents a case for fMRI as a central hub on which to integrate the dispersed subfields of systems, cognitive, computational and clinical neuroscience.

    • Emily S. Finn
    • , Russell A. Poldrack
    •  & James M. Shine

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    | Open Access

    Behavioural and electrophysiological studies in simultaneously thirsty and hungry mice reveal a neural basis for resolving conflicts between needs, in which choices are guided by a persistent and distributed neural goal state that undergoes spontaneous transitions between goals.

    • Ethan B. Richman
    • , Nicole Ticea
    •  & Liqun Luo

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    Measurements of signal propagation in more than 23,000 pairs of neurons from nematode worms show that predictions of neural function made on the basis of anatomy are often incorrect, in part owing to the effects of extrasynaptic signalling.

    • Francesco Randi
    • , Anuj K. Sharma
    •  & Andrew M. Leifer

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    | Open Access

    Transcriptomic data and functional experiments on macaque retina are used to identify the ON-type direction-selective ganglion cells responsible for detecting moving images and initiating gaze-stabilization mechanisms.

    • Anna Y. M. Wang
    • , Manoj M. Kulkarni
    •  & Teresa Puthussery

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    Experiments in mice identify a neural circuit that relays information about infant cries from the maternal auditory thalamus to hypothalamic oxytocin neurons to induce the release of oxytocin and modulate maternal behaviour.

    • Silvana Valtcheva
    • , Habon A. Issa
    •  & Robert C. Froemke

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    Experiments in mice provide insight into the dynamic relationship between dopamine and acetylcholine in the ventrolateral striatum and how this signalling circuit affects decision-making and behaviour.

    • Lynne Chantranupong
    • , Celia C. Beron
    •  & Bernardo L. Sabatini

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    Fasting-activated hypothalamic AgRP-expressing neurons trigger fasting-induced hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis activation through projections to the paraventricular hypothalamus, where they activate CRH neurons by presynaptically inhibiting the terminals of tonically active GABAergic afferents from the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.

    • Amelia M. Douglass
    • , Jon M. Resch
    •  & Bradford B. Lowell

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    CRISPR–Cas9 mutagenesis studies in mice demonstrate co-release of a neurotransmitter and a neuropeptide with opposing signals that stimulate the ventral tegmental area dopamine system through coordinated actions on different cells at different time scales.

    • Marta E. Soden
    • , Joshua X. Yee
    •  & Larry S. Zweifel

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    ESR1-expressing cells in the principal nucleus of the bed nucleus of stria terminalis are necessary, sufficient and naturally activated during infanticide, and they form reciprocal inhibition with the maternal cells to control young-directed behaviours in female mice.

    • Long Mei
    • , Rongzhen Yan
    •  & Dayu Lin

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    | Open Access

    Rule-shift behavioural experiments in mice demonstrate that callosal projections of parvalbumin-expressing neurons switch prefrontal circuits from maintenance mode to rule-learning mode by gating inputs from other callosal inputs that maintain previous rule representations.

    • Kathleen K. A. Cho
    • , Jingcheng Shi
    •  & Vikaas S. Sohal

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    | Open Access

    Photometric recordings and optogenetic manipulation show that dopamine fluctuations in the dorsolateral striatum in mice modulate the use, sequencing and vigour of behavioural modules during spontaneous behaviour.

    • Jeffrey E. Markowitz
    • , Winthrop F. Gillis
    •  & Sandeep Robert Datta

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    | Open Access

    Analysis of behaviour, physiology, anatomy and connectomics in Drosophila shows how direction-specific visual information is transformed onto downstream premotor networks and converted into appropriate motor responses.

    • Mark Dombrovski
    • , Martin Y. Peek
    •  & Gwyneth M. Card

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    | Open Access

    The authors show that, in a chronic social defeat stress rodent model, a subset of male and female mice avoided social interaction with non-aggressive, same-sex juvenile mice and did not develop context-dependent social reward following these encounters.

    • Long Li
    • , Romain Durand-de Cuttoli
    •  & Scott J. Russo

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    Mapping of the mouse cerebellar cortex using 3D reconstruction from electron microscopy, as well as numerical simulation of neuronal activity, shows non-random redundancy of connectivity that may favour resilient learning over encoding capacity.

    • Tri M. Nguyen
    • , Logan A. Thomas
    •  & Wei-Chung Allen Lee

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    Neural recording and closed-loop manipulation during chronic stress in mice reveal causal links between dopamine, behavior and resilience.

    • Lindsay Willmore
    • , Courtney Cameron
    •  & Annegret L. Falkner

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    | Open Access

    A studying using a set of unbiased methodologies shows that a specific subpopulation of neurons in the brainstem can regulate the diverse responses to a bacterial endotoxin that induces sickness behaviours.

    • Anoj Ilanges
    • , Rani Shiao
    •  & Jeffrey M. Friedman

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    | Open Access

    Behavioural and genetic experiments in mice reveal gut-to-brain circuits driving the development of fat preference, one responding to intestinal sugar and fat using cholecystokinin signalling, and the other responding only to fat.

    • Mengtong Li
    • , Hwei-Ee Tan
    •  & Charles S. Zuker

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    The whisking oscillator—consisting of parvalbumin-expressing inhibitory neurons located in the vibrissa intermediate reticular nucleus—in mice is an all-inhibitory network and recurrent synaptic inhibition has a key role in its rhythmogenesis.

    • Jun Takatoh
    • , Vincent Prevosto
    •  & Fan Wang

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    BNSTprEsr1 activity is required to gate the transition from appetitive to consummatory male social behaviours towards both sexes, by controlling sex- and behaviour-specific representations in VMHvl and MPOA, respectively.

    • Bin Yang
    • , Tomomi Karigo
    •  & David J. Anderson

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    | Open Access

    Experiments in mice alternating between a visual working memory task and a task that is independent of working memory provide insight into the neural representation of working memory and the distributed nature of its maintenance.

    • Ivan Voitov
    •  & Thomas D. Mrsic-Flogel

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    In mouse brain, neurotensin released into the basolateral amygdala by neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus assigns positive or negative valence during associative learning.

    • Hao Li
    • , Praneeth Namburi
    •  & Kay M. Tye

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    | Open Access

    A tectothalamic pathway for social affiliation in developing zebrafish dissociates neuronal control of attraction from repulsion during affiliation, revealing a circuit underpinning of collective behaviour

    • Johannes M. Kappel
    • , Dominique Förster
    •  & Johannes Larsch

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    | Open Access

    Distinct dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area respond to physiological fluid balance and nutrient cues at specific stages of ingestion, driving learning about the physiological effects of ingestion.

    • James C. R. Grove
    • , Lindsay A. Gray
    •  & Zachary A. Knight

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    High-resolution volumetric calcium imaging was used to create a functional atlas of the Drosophila melanogaster ventral brain and identify how and where metabolic and reproductive states alter processing of food-related sensory stimuli.

    • Daniel Münch
    • , Dennis Goldschmidt
    •  & Carlos Ribeiro

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    Two-photon imaging and in situ transcriptomic analysis of the primary visual cortex in mice show that a single transcriptomic axis correlates with the state modulation of cortical inhibitory neurons.

    • Stéphane Bugeon
    • , Joshua Duffield
    •  & Kenneth D. Harris

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