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  1. BAcTrace, a tool for retrograde tracing of neuronal circuits in Drosophila

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    Animal behavior is encoded in neuronal circuits in the brain. To elucidate the function of these circuits, it is necessary to identify, record from and manipulate networks of …
  2. Coding of social novelty in the hippocampal CA2 region and its disruption and rescue in a 22q11.2 microdeletion mouse model

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    The hippocampal CA2 region is essential for social memory. To determine whether CA2 activity encodes social interactions, we recorded extracellularly from CA2 pyramidal neurons (PNs) in male mice …
  3. Circadian control of brain glymphatic and lymphatic fluid flow

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    The glymphatic system is a network of perivascular spaces that promotes movement of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) into the brain and clearance of metabolic waste. This fluid transport system …
  4. Engineering quantum materials with chiral optical cavities

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  5. Ultrafast Real-Time Dynamics of CO Oxidation over an Oxide Photocatalyst

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  6. Polariton panorama

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  7. Dynamical amplification of electric polarization through nonlinear phononics in 2D SnTe

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  8. Quantitative sampling of atomic-scale electromagnetic waveforms

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  9. Cas9 gene therapy for Angelman syndrome traps Ube3a-ATS long non-coding RNA.

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  10. Atypical development of attentional control associates with later adaptive functioning, autism and ADHD traits.

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  11. Revealing the structure of pharmacobehavioral space through motion sequencing.

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  12. Cleaning our own dust: simulating and separating galactic dust foregrounds with neural networks

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    Separating galactic foreground emission from maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), and quantifying the uncertainty in the CMB maps due to errors in foreground separation are important …
  13. The Effects of Depth Cues and Vestibular Translation Signals on the Rotation Tolerance of Heading Tuning in Macaque Area MSTd

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    When the eyes rotate during translational self-motion, the focus of expansion (FOE) in optic flow no longer indicates heading, yet heading judgements are largely unbiased. Much emphasis …
  14. Targeted Activation of Hippocampal Place Cells Drives Memory-Guided Spatial Behavior

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    The hippocampus is crucial for spatial navigation and episodic memory formation. Hippocampal place cells exhibit spatially selective activity within an environment and have been proposed to form the …
  15. A configurable model of the synaptic proteome reveals the molecular mechanisms of disease co-morbidity.

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  16. Brunner syndrome associated MAOA dysfunction in human dopaminergic neurons results in NMDAR hyperfunction and increased network activity.

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  17. Kernel Aggregated Fast Multipole Method: Efficient summation of Laplace and Stokes kernel functions

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    Many different simulation methods for Stokes flow problems involve a common computationally intense task—the summation of a kernel function over O(N2) pairs of points. One popular …
  18. Modeling flexible behavior in childhood to adulthood shows age-dependent learning mechanisms and less optimal learning in autism in each age group.

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  19. The Anterior Cingulate Cortex Predicts Future States to Mediate Model-Based Action Selection

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    Behavioral control is not unitary. It comprises parallel systems, model based and model free, that respectively generate flexible and habitual behaviors. Model-based decisions use predictions of the …
  20. Gamete simulation improves polygenic transmission disequilibrium analysis.

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  21. How many neurons are sufficient for perception of cortical activity?

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    Many theories of brain function propose that activity in sparse subsets of neurons underlies perception and action. To place a lower bound on the amount of neural activity …
  22. Biologically plausible single-layer networks for nonnegative independent component analysis

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    Blind source separation, the problem of separating mixtures of unknown signals into their distinct sources, is an important problem for both biological and engineered signal processing systems. Nonnegative …
  23. A biologically plausible neural network for Slow Feature Analysis

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    Learning latent features from time series data is an important problem in both machine learning and brain function. One approach, called Slow Feature Analysis (SFA), leverages the slowness …
  24. A simple normative network approximates local non-Hebbian learning in the cortex

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    To guide behavior, the brain extracts relevant features from high-dimensional data streamed by sensory organs. Neuroscience experiments demonstrate that the processing of sensory inputs by cortical neurons …
  25. Specificities of modeling membrane proteins using multi-template homology modeling

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    Structures of membrane proteins are challenging to determine experimentally and currently represent only about 2% of the structures in the ProteinDataBank. Because of this disparity, methods for modeling …
  26. An approach for long-term, multi-probe Neuropixels recordings in unrestrained rats

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    The use of Neuropixels probes for chronic neural recordings is in its infancy and initial studies leave questions about long-term stability and probe reusability unaddressed. Here we …
  27. Anomaly Detection for Multivariate Time Series of Exotic Supernovae

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    Supernovae mark the explosive deaths of stars and enrich the cosmos with heavy elements. Future telescopes will discover thousands of new supernovae nightly, creating a need to flag …
  28. Regulation of neural gene expression by estrogen receptor alpha.

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  29. Metformin rescues Parkinson's disease phenotypes caused by hyperactive mitochondria

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    Metabolic dysfunction occurs in many age-related neurodegenerative diseases, yet its role in disease etiology remains poorly understood. We recently discovered a potential causal link between the branched …
  30. Brain-wide, scale-wide physiology underlying behavioral flexibility in zebrafish

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    The brain is tasked with choosing actions that maximize an animal's chances of survival and reproduction. These choices must be flexible and informed by the current state …
  31. Distributional Reinforcement Learning in the Brain

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    Learning about rewards and punishments is critical for survival. Classical studies have demonstrated an impressive correspondence between the firing of dopamine neurons in the mammalian midbrain and the …
  32. Novel Alzheimer Disease Risk Loci and Pathways in African American Individuals Using the African Genome Resources Panel: A Meta-analysis

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    … identified. Gene expression data from brain tissue demonstrate association of ALCAM, ARAP1, GPC6, and RBFOX1 with brain β-amyloid load. Of 25 known loci associated with Alzheimer …
  33. Accurate brain age prediction with lightweight deep neural networks.

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  34. Mutations associated with neuropsychiatric conditions delineate functional brain connectivity dimensions contributing to autism and schizophrenia.

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  35. Computational design of mixed chirality peptide macrocycles with internal symmetry

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    Cyclic symmetry is frequent in protein and peptide homo‐oligomers, but extremely rare within a single chain, as it is not compatible with free N‐ and C‐termini …
  36. Heterozygous deletion of SYNGAP enzymatic domains in rats causes selective learning, social and seizure phenotypes.

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  37. Social interaction networks in the primate brain

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    Primate brains have evolved to understand and engage with their social world. Much about the structure of this world can be gleaned from social interactions. Circuits for the …
  38. Human cerebral organoids reveal early spatiotemporal dynamics and pharmacological responses of UBE3A.

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  39. Homotopic Action: A Pathway to Convergent Diagrammatic Theories

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  40. Fast Recurrent Processing via Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Is Needed by the Primate Ventral Stream for Robust Core Visual Object Recognition

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    Distributed neural population spiking patterns in macaque inferior temporal (IT) cortex that support core object recognition require additional time to develop for specific, "late-solved" images. This suggests …
  41. Characterization of special interests in autism spectrum disorder: A brief review and pilot study using the special interests survey.

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  42. Developmental paths to anxiety in an autism-enriched infant cohort: The role of temperamental reactivity and regulation.

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  43. Data mining of human plasma proteins generates a multitude of highly predictive aging clocks that reflect different aspects of aging

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    We previously identified 529 proteins that had been reported by multiple different studies to change their expression level with age in human plasma. In the present study, we …
  44. SARS-CoV-2 receptor networks in diabetic and COVID-19 associated kidney disease

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    COVID-19 morbidity and mortality are increased via unknown mechanisms in patients with diabetes and kidney disease. SARS-CoV-2 uses angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) for entry …
  45. Alexithymia in autism: Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations with social-communication difficulties, anxiety and depression symptoms.

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  46. De novo missense variants disrupting protein-protein interactions affect risk for autism through gene co-expression and protein networks in neuronal cell types.

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  47. An avian cortical circuit for chunking tutor song syllables into simple vocal-motor units

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    How are brain circuits constructed to achieve complex goals? The brains of young songbirds develop motor circuits that achieve the goal of imitating a specific tutor song to …
  48. Prefrontal cortex exhibits multidimensional dynamic encoding during decision-making

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    Recent work has suggested that the prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays a key role in context-dependent perceptual decision-making. In this study, we addressed that role using a …
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