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Awakening dormant genes with cancer drugs

From Figure 1 of Huang et al. Here’s one that first appeared online at the end of last year by Benjamin Philpot, Bryan Roth and Mark Zylka about a finding that could lead to a therapy for Angelman...

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Telepathy? I think not

From Supp Fig 10 of Kay et al. There is just something about neural decoding that captures the imagination. Scientists “reading out brain activity” to infer what someone was seeing or doing sounds like...

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Layer magic and monkey business

Layers of human cortex drawn by Ramon y Cajal. Image from Wikimedia Commons We’ve known for over a century that sensory cortex is arranged in distinct layers, each containing a different make up of...

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Parietal decision sequences – and more of mice and monkeys

From Figure 2 of Harvey et al Back in the 1990’s, one of the most intense battlegrounds in systems neuroscience was in monkey posterior parietal cortex. Labs competed to claim what a little strip of...

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Motor recovery within grasp

I’m on the road (attending a symposium at MIT: New Insights on Early Life Stress and Mental Health) so this one’s going to be brief. Neural prosthetics are an exciting interface between basic research...

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Call and response

From Ramsden et al. addendum The (highly abbreviated) life story of a paper appearing in Nature often goes something like this: ideas are birthed and experiments envisioned. Pilot experiments are run,...

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Autism, synapses and mice – pairs division

From Won et al. Again, we’re behind on blogging – you guys are keeping us busy with great neuroscience – but here is the story of a pair of papers that appeared back to back in last week’s issue and a...

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A tale of three papers

From Figure 1, Li et al. I wanted the title of this post to be “A tale of two one two three papers” but I couldn’t figure out how to get strikethroughs in the title field. And I thought “A tale of two,...

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Too much of a good thing?

From Wilson et al. We published another double header yesterday, this time on the role of particular cell types in visual responses. Both studies describe the effect of optogenetically manipulating...

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Reviewing gender

Original image courtesy of Stuart Miles / FreeDigitalPhotos.net We’re back! Apologies for the long radio silence – day job, what can I say. Last week Nature published a leader reflecting upon our...

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