Newly discovered nerve cells perceive more than just edges

The visual cortex is the part of the brain that enables visual perception. Millions of nerve cells process stimuli from the outside world - only reacting to objects with certain characteristics. According to textbooks, the first stage of the visual cortex has two main types of neurons that specialize in edges – sharp transitions between light and dark. An international team of researchers used machine learning techniques to find neurons in mice that use a previously unknown process in the brain to share this cognitive processing: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=8101

Research in #NatureNeuroscience: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-026-02213-3

Now out in #NatureNeuroscience: "Temporal control of progenitor competence shapes maturation in GABAergic neuron development in mice".

Congrats to first authors Ann Bright, Yana Kotlyarenko, Florian Neuhaus — and thanks to all collaborators!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-01999-y

#NewsMayerlab #NeuroFediverse #SingleCell #DevelopmentalBiology

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Hearing begins with the stretching of elastic molecular “springs” that open ion channels in the sensory hair cells of the ear. For decades, researchers have been unable to find these.

Now, a team at Göttingen's Excellence Cluster Multiscale Bioimaging #MBExC has discovered just such a spring for the first time: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=7736

#NatureNeuroscience: https://doi.org/n86s #MakingSenseOfSenses #Hearing

Heute, am 3. März, ist Welttag des Hörens! Doch wie funktioniert eigentlich das #Gehör?

Ein Team des Göttinger Exzellenzclusters „Multiscale Bioimaging“ (#MBExC), an dem auch unsere Uni beteiligt ist, hat dazu eine zentrale Struktur entdeckt. Forschende suchen diese Struktur schon seit über 40 Jahren. Wie die sogenannte „Feder im Ohr“ das #Hören steuert: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html?id=7735

Forschung in #NatureNeuroscience: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-024-01849-3

#neurobiologie #neurowissenschaften #neuro #biologie

CONTROVERSIAL STUDY ON SELF-CLEANING BRAINS
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New sleep study ignites brain cleaning controversy

Recent work challenges ideas of increased toxin clearance during sleep — though some researchers question the study’s methods.

19 June 2024
By Emma Young

https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/new-sleep-study-ignites-brain-cleaning-controversy

Credit where credit is due: I learned of this study from NPR. NPR has a good mobile app.

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#alzheimers #alzheimersdisease #andaweimiao #billwisden #dementiaresearch #dementiaresearchinstitute #glymphatic #glymphaticsystem #glymphaticsystemhypothesis #imperialcollegelondon #maikennedergaard #medicalscience #medicalsciencenews #nationalpublicradio #natureneuroscience #nickfranks #npr #radio #radiomobileapp #radiomobileapps #science #sciencenews #sleepstudies #sleepstudy #toxinclearance #toxinclearanceduringsleep

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Sleep does not help brain wash out toxins, study suggests | Neuroscience | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/13/sleep-does-not-help-brain-wash-out-toxins-study-suggests

#Brain
#Toxins
#ClearanceOfFluid
#ImperialCollegeLondon
#Memory
#HandEyeCoordination
#IndirectEvidence
#BrainsWasteRemovalSystem
#NatureNeuroscience
#UKDementiaResearchInstitute

So excited to share chapter 2 of my dissertation, published today in #NatureNeuroscience. We used movie to capture how the brain represents emotion concepts (e.g., angry, sad, happy, etc) in 5-to-15-year-old children. Two main findings:
First, each emotion is represented in a distinct way across the brain.
Second, activation more broadly synchronizes with age, suggesting that we develop a shared interpretation of emotion cues across adolescence. #neuroscience #science

https://rdcu.be/dd4M1

It's been 1 yr since #NatureNeuroscience announced their #OpenAccess fee of €9,500/US $11,390/£8,290 (the choice of listing only those 3 currencies is arbitrary and not necessarily an indicator of where the money will likely come from, right??).

This is, in the words of Dr. Glaucomflecken, academic #journals doing #crime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F9gzQz1Pms