Nature - This Review examines the interplay between the nervous system and tumours, from cancer initiation to progression and metastasis.

Nature - A new encoding method, CEBRA, jointly uses behavioural and neural data in a (supervised) hypothesis- or (self-supervised) discovery-driven manner to produce both consistent and...

Nature - A reliable digital bridge restored communication between the brain and spinal cord and enabled natural walking in a participant with spinal cord injury.

Nature - A host of disorders once thought to be nothing to do with the brain are, in fact, tightly coupled to nervous-system activity.

Nature - Visceral pain and anxiety in mice are found to be associated with gut enterochromaffin cells, and genetic models for eliciting visceral hypersensitivity and studying the sex bias of gut...

Nature - Dedicated cells in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex map an animal s instantaneous position in space; by contrast, its future goal location is represented in the orbitofrontal...

Zhu introduced an octuple-sexdecuple patch-clamp recording technique, allowing for the architectural reconstruction of cortical L1 SBC-led modular circuits featuring translaminar, unidirectional,...

Nature - Neuroanatomical findings demonstrate why electroactupuncture at only specific acupoints can drive the vagal–adrenal axis and treat inflammation in mice.

Nature - Comparisons of steroid hormone concentrations in dentin samples from fossil mammoth tusks with those from a modern elephant tusk provide evidence of periodic increases in testosterone in...

Nature - 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...

Nature - Octopuses possess a distinct active sleep stage, with behavioural and neural correlates resembling vertebrate REM sleep, which may represent convergent features of complex cognition.

Nature - A neural circuit for implementing a coordinate transformation and 2D vector computation is described in Drosophila.

Nature - A brain–computer interface enables rapid communication through neural decoding of attempted handwriting movements in a person with paralysis.

Nature - Specific neurons in the fly brain that are activated when males are aroused modulate visual processing to underlie courtship.

Nature - The retrosplenial cortex and superior colliculus of mouse form a neural circuit that specifically encodes shelter location, facilitating rapid escape from predatory threats.

Stellate cells in the medial entorhinal cortex are functionally heterogeneous but a substantial fraction are grid cells.

Nature - Insights into the underlying neuronal circuitry of the Drosophila song production system are provided using song patterning of males near versus far from the female.

Nature - Neurons in the mouse medial prefrontal cortex acquire category-selective responses with learning.

Nature - Studies in mice, humans and macaques show that retinoic acid signalling has an important role in the development of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in primates and may also underlie the...

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

Nature - Single-cell profiling of vagal sensory neurons from seven organs in mice and calcium-imaging-guided spatial transcriptomics reveal that interoceptive signals are coded through three...

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Launched four years ago, the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN) aims to identify and catalogue the diverse cells types found in mammalian brains....

Nature - Transcriptomic analysis following epidural electrical stimulation of the lumbar spinal cord during neurorehabilitation in mice identifies a population of neurons that orchestrates the...

The discovery of brain structures that apparently mark time has raised a larger question: What is time, anyway?

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Nature - Cells in the mouse medial entorhinal cortex that fire when mice are at a specific distance and direction from a stationary object suggest that vector coding is important for rodent...

Nature - 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...

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

Nature Neuroscience - Recording from cell ensembles in the medial entorhinal cortex, Gardner et al. show that the correlation structure of the grid cell system is preserved between awake and sleep...

Nature - Behavioural studies and neural recordings in mice show that virgin mice can acquire maternal behaviour through an oxytocin-dependent mechanism.

Nature - Springer Nature says it commits to offering researchers a route to publishing open access in Nature and most Nature-branded journals from 2021.

Nature - Plasma from voluntarily running mice reduces baseline expression of neuroinflammatory genes and experimentally induced brain inflammation when infused into sedentary mice.

Remembering too much, too vividly can negatively affect mental health.

Nature - Behavioural and transcriptomic analyses show that chronic social isolation of Drosophila causes perturbed sleep and increased feeding, and induces a starvation-like brain state.

Nature - In vivo two-photon calcium imaging analyses of sensory inputs from the gastrointestinal tract and upper airways in mice reveal spatial organization and coding principles of the...

Nature - Release from shunting inhibition and coincident excitation implement a multiplication-like synaptic interaction in motion-sensing neurons of Drosophila melanogaster.

Nature - After years of development, researchers have managed to shrink two-photon microscopy into a device that can be mounted on rodents’ heads without impeding behaviour.

Nature - The brain’s hippocampus regulates glucose levels in the body.

Nature - Recordings from the brains of freely flying bats show that grid cells that represent 3D space have multiple firing fields and are organized with local rather than global order.

Nature Communications - Ammonium is detected by chemosensory systems of humans and other animals to guide avoidance or attractive behavior. Here, the authors show that the proton channel OTOP1 is...

Nature - The duration of a critical period of plasticity in the developing Drosophila motor circuit, during which motor neurons display activity-dependent refinement of neurite structure and...

Nature - The immunological basis for allergy-associated aversion to food.