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Jul 19, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Olivia Gieger |Charles Choi |Rachel Zamzow |Michael Fergenson
The superior colliculus, an evolutionarily ancient brain area responsible for eye movements, responds to faces before the canonical face areas do, a study of macaque monkeys suggests. The superior colliculus, an evolutionarily ancient brain area responsible for eye movements, responds to faces before the canonical face areas do, a study of macaque monkeys suggests.
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Sep 10, 2023 | 
spectrumnews.org | Michael Fergenson |Felix Leroy
Jakob Voigts of the Janelia Research Campus shared his preprint, “A unified open-source platform for multimodal neural recording and perturbation during naturalistic behavior,” posted on bioRxiv 1 September. We still have a postdoc position in my lab at @HHMIJanelia where we use approaches like this to figure out how mice can quickly learn flexible computations by building and using models of their environment.
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Sep 3, 2023 | 
spectrumnews.org | Michael Fergenson
Illustration by Laurène BoglioNicholas Steinmetz of the University of Washington described his team’s preprint, “Ultra-high density electrodes improve detection, yield, and cell type specificity of brain recordings,” posted on bioRxiv 25 August. Spectrum covered a previous version of the Neuropixels probe last year.
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Aug 27, 2023 | 
spectrumnews.org | Michael Fergenson
Richard Bethlehem of Cambridge University shared a link to his team’s new study, “Genetic insights into human cortical organization and development through genome-wide analyses of 2,347 neuroimaging phenotypes,” published in Nature Genetics 17 August. Our latest global effort (led by twitterles Varun Warrier from @psychiatry_ucam and @CambPsych ) to map the genetic architecture of the human ???
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Aug 20, 2023 | 
spectrumnews.org | Michael Fergenson
Illustration by Laurène BoglioMartin Picard of Columbia University detailed his team’s study, “Brain mitochondrial diversity and network organization predict anxiety-like behavior in male mice,” published in Nature Communications 10 August. Spectrum published a collection of coverage on the link between mitochondria and autism earlier this week. How we interact with the world – our perceptions, reactions, behaviors – are driven by brain biology. But what part?
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Aug 13, 2023 | 
spectrumnews.org | Michael Fergenson
Illustration by Laurène Boglio Nelson Spruston of Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, detailed his team’s preprint, “Learning produces a hippocampal cognitive map in the form of an orthogonalized state machine,” posted on bioRxiv 7 August. 1/11 How are cognitive maps formed during learning?
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Aug 6, 2023 | 
spectrumnews.org | Michael Fergenson
Illustration by Laurène BoglioThe Broad Institute linked to its article, “A look back at the first year of NeuroDev,” published on its site 20 July. Spectrum covered initial findings from NeuroDev on 15 March. Francesco Longo of the University of Gothenburg described his study, “Cell-type-specific disruption of cortico-striatal circuitry drives repetitive patterns of behavior in fragile X syndrome model mice,” published in Cell Reports 27 July.
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Jul 23, 2023 | 
spectrumnews.org | Michael Fergenson
Illustration by Laurène BoglioArkady Khoutorsky and Mehdi Hooshmandi, both of McGill University, described their team’s study, “Excitatory neuron-specific suppression of the integrated stress response contributes to autism-related phenotypes in fragile X syndrome,” published in Neuron 19 July. The Broad Institute linked to the article “A how-to for performing quantitative bioimaging,” published on their site 13 July.
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Jul 16, 2023 | 
spectrumnews.org | Michael Fergenson |Eric Minikel
Illustration by Laurène Boglio Ali Ertürk of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München detailed his team’s study, “Whole-body cellular mapping in mouse using standard IgG antibodies,” published in Nature Biotechnology 10 July. John-Paul Fuller-Jackson of the University of Melbourne and Kateryna Shkarina of the Institute of Innate Immunity were among the many who responded to Ertürk. The Allen Institute shared a link to its new resource, the Allen Brain Cell Atlas.
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Jul 9, 2023 | 
spectrumnews.org | Michael Fergenson
Illustration by Laurène BoglioSneha Shah and Jonathan Watts, both of the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, shared their team’s paper, “Antisense oligonucleotide rescue of CGG expansion–dependent FMR1 mis-splicing in fragile X syndrome restores FMRP,” published in PNAS 26 June.
