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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 19h

#eNeuro | Spatial Attention Weakly Modulates Visual Responses in the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0153-25.2025

#eNeuro | Spatial Attention Weakly Modulates Visual Responses in the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0153-25.2025

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 1d

#JNeurosci Zhao et al. used mice to characterize a neural pathway from the prelimbic prefrontal cortex to the dorsal hippocampus, which regulates reward and may be involved in methamphetamine addiction. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0374-25.2025

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 1d

“In short, there’s a rich array of mind-opening and perspective-altering possibilities arising at every turn, in a way that smaller venues cannot provide.” Reflecting on 35 years of attending the SfN annual meeting.
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/45/40/e1524252025

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 1d

New in #eNeuro from Emami Naeini et al: Cannabidiol targets harmful brain inflammation in a mouse model for Alzheimer’s disease, offering a potential treatment approach.
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0114-25.2025

SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 2d

#eNeuro Open Source Tools and Methods | Low-Cost 3D-Printed Mazes with Open-Source ML Tracking for Mouse Behavior
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0141-25.2025

SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 2d

#eNeuro | Hippocampal–Prefrontal Communication Subspaces Align with Behavioral and Network Patterns in a Spatial Memory Task
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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 3d

#eNeuro | Loudness and Sound Category: Their Distinct Roles in Shaping Perceptual and Physiological Responses to Soundscapes
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0146-25.2025

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 3d

#SnapshotsinNeuroscience | This image from Smith et al. shows a mouse cerebellar section with a single layer of Purkinje cells extending their elaborate dendritic branches upwards into the dense molecular layer. Image credit: Kathleen McCoy
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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 4d

#eNeuro | No Selective Attentional Shift despite Prefrontal Activation during a Working-Memory Task with Unconscious Stimuli
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0183-25.2025

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 4d

“The whole constellation of things that could and should go normal actually don't due to alcohol exposure." — Anna Klintsova
Neuro Current Ep. 38 explores the impacts of fetal alcohol exposure during different stages of development.
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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 4d

#eNeuro is SfN’s open-access, multidisciplinary journal that welcomes a wide range of article types — from replication studies, negative results, open-source tools and methods, and Registered Reports to reviews, commentaries, and opinions.
https://www.eneuro.org/content/general-information#types

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 6d

Why the SfN Meeting Keeps Drawing Me Back
“The Neuroscience Meeting repeatedly teaches me that only real life promotes the spontaneity, fluidity, and generosity of personal exchanges…” Reflecting on 35 years of attending the SfN annual meeting.
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/45/40/e1524252025

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 6d

This Week in The Journal #JNeurosci | How an Ataxin-2 Mutation May Increase ALS Risk
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.twij.45.40.2025

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 7d

#JNeurosci | Raine et al. developed a way to train zebrafish to self-administer alcohol and used this paradigm to explore how a gene (chrna3) influences sensitivity to and preference for the drug. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0304-25.2025

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 7d

#eNeuro | Dentate Granule Cell Capacitance Is Stable across the Light/Dark Cycle
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0213-25.2025

SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 7d

#eNeuro blog Beyond the Paper | Andy Kim describes how his passion for studying cognition came about and details his positive experiences with the process of preregistering his study.
https://blog.eneuro.org/2025/09/btp_kim

SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 8d

#JNeurosci: Kashefi et al. dissociate between the “what” and “how” components of motor sequence learning and provides evidence for the development of motoric sequence representations that guide optimal movement execution.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0299-25.2025

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 8d

#JNeuosci | Olianezhad et al. found that human amblyopia, or lazy eye, is associated with contrast sensitivity and impaired shape perception. They also propose a mechanism in the cortex that compensates for these impairments.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1111-25.2025

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 8d

New in #JNeurosci from Chen et al: The path people take while walking may shape how they process auditory information. This could reflect attentional shifts during navigation that influence sensory information processing. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0489-25.2025

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 9d

#eNeuro | SpinalTRAQ: A Novel Pipeline for Volumetric Cervical Spinal Cord Analysis Identifies the Corticospinal Tract Synaptic Projectome in Healthy and Post-stroke Mice
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0276-25.2025

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 9d

#eNeuro | Paclitaxel Chemotherapy Disrupts Circadian Gene Transcription and Function of the Suprachiasmatic Nuclei in Female Mice
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0061-25.2025

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 9d

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 10d

#eNeuro: Shen et al. show that one key transcription factor for caudomedial cerebral cortex development, Dmrta2, acts mainly in cortical regionalization by repressing another transcription factor, Pax6, that's crucial for rostrolateral fate.
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0377-24.2025

SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 10d

#JNeurosci: Using a mouse model of Down syndrome with high genetic relevance to human trisomy 21, Atak et al. suggests that a specific population of excitatory neurons in the cerebral cortex is perturbed during fetal brain development.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0040-25.2025

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 10d

#JNeurosci: To model genetic changes found in some patients with epilepsy and intellectual disability, Abramova et al. developed zebrafish models lacking grin2Aa and grin2Ab genes, which complement existing rodent models.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0946-25.2025

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