Past Updates

January 2024

The Natural Scene Network (Diane Beck, Dirk B. Walther), revised

 

December 2023

Functional Specialization Across the Visual Cortex (Erez Freud, Tzvi Ganel, Galia Avidan)

 

November 2023

 

October 2023

The Interaction of Perception and Memory (Emma Megla, Wilma A. Bainbridge)

 

August 2023

Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging (Jessica A. Bernard, Tracey H. Hicks)
Drosophila Reward Circuits (John S. Hernandez, Tariq M. Brown, Karla R. Kaun), revised
Investigating Learning and Memory in Humans (Evangelia G. Chrysikou, Elizabeth Espinal, Alexandra E. Kelly)
 

July 2023

Spatial Cognition in Rodents (Freyja Ólafsdóttir)
 

April 2023

Magnetoreception and Bird Navigation (Roswitha Wiltschko, Wolfgang Wiltschko)
 

March 2023

 

February 2023

 

January 2023

Neural Mechanisms for Odor-Guided Behavior (Giuliano Gaeta, Regina M. Sullivan, Donald A. Wilson)
Neural Mechanisms of Tinnitus (Adam Hockley, Susan E. Shore)
Neural Processing of Taste Information (Alfredo Fontanini, Lindsey Czarnecki)
 

November 2022

Predictive Coding Theories of Cortical Function (Linxing Preston Jiang, Rajesh P.N. Rao)
Vision and Art (Bevil R. Conway)
 

September 2022

 

June 2022

 

May 2022

Models of Decision-Making Over Time (Paul Cisek, David Thura)
 

March 2022

Confidence in Decision-Making (Megan A.K. Peters)
Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors and Affective Responses (Kalynn Schulz, Marcia Chavez, Arthur Castaneda)
 

January 2022

The Neuroendocrinology of Empathy (James Burkett, Farzaneh Naghavi)
 

December 2021

 

November 2021

Autonomic Regulation of Kidney Function (Mohammed H. Abdulla, Edward J. Johns)
Neuroendocrinology of Stress and Addiction (Steven Kinsey, Olivia Vanegas, Kristen Trexler, Floyd Steele, Matthew Eckard)
Stress-Modulated Pathways (Nicolas Rohleder)
 

October 2021

Development of Lung Innervation (Talita de Melo e Silva, Catherine Miriam Czeisler, José Javier Otero)
 

August 2021

Insect Color Vision (Natalie Hempel de Ibarra, Misha Vorobyev)
Neurobiology of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (Steven Holfinger, M. Melanie Lyons, Nitin Bhatt, Ulysses Magalang)
Nociceptors and Chronic Pain (Edgar T. Walters)
Regulating Systems in Neuroimmunology (William H. Walker II, A. Courtney DeVries)
The Role of Neuroinflammation in the Response to Spinal Cord Injury (Olivia H. Bodart, Ethan P. Glaser, Steven M. MacLean, Meifan A. Chen, John C. Gensel)
 

June 2021

 

March 2021

Central Auditory Processing (Josef P. Rauschecker)
Chemoreception in Fishes (Hiroshi Ueda), summary
Neural Processing of Pain and Itch (Taylor Follansbee, Mirela Iodi Carstens, E. Carstens)
Retinal Mechanisms for Motion Detection (Mathew T. Summers, Malak El Quessny, Maria B. Feller)

February 2021

Cardiac Vagal Tone and Stress (Kevin T. Larkin, Alaina G. Tiani, Leah A. Brown)
Olfactory Perception (Daniel W. Wesson, Sang Eun Ryu, Hillary L. Cansler)

September 2020

Octopus Motor Control (Nir Nesher, Guy Levy, Letizia Zullo, Benyamin Hochner)
 

August 2020

Phantom Limbs and Brain Plasticity in Amputees (Tamar Makin, Plasticity Lab London)
The Role of Microglia in the Aging Brain: A Focus on Sex Differences (Jeffrey S. Darling, Kevin Sanchez, Andrew D. Gaudet, Laura K. Fonken)
 

July 2020

Role of Puberty on Adult Behaviors (Kristen Delevich, Linda Wilbrecht)
What Is a Neuronal Ensemble? (Luis Carillo-Reid, Rafael Yuste)
 

June 2020

 

May 2020

Chemoreception in Fishes (Hiroshi Ueda), summary
 

April 2020

Aging and Olfaction (Richard L. Doty)
March 2020
Neuroendocrine and Neuroimmune Mechanisms Regulating the Blood-Brain Barrier (Divine C. Nwafor, Allison L. Brichacek, Sreeparna Chakraborty, Catheryne A. Gambill, Stanley A. Benkovic, Candice M. Brown)
Paternal Behavior from a Neuroendocrine Perspective (Caleigh Guoynes, Catherine Marler)
 

February 2020

 

January 2020

 

December 2019

Rapid Adaptive Camouflage in Cephalopods (Chuan-Chin Chiao, Roger Hanlon)
 

November 2019

Neurobiology of Auditory Hallucinations (Judith M. Ford, Holly K. Hamilton, Alison Boos)
Role of Sex Hormones on Pain (Dayna L. Averitt, Rebecca S. Hornung, Anne Z. Murphy)
 

September 2019

Maternal Behavior from a Neuroendocrine Perspective (Danielle S. Stolzenberg, Kimberly L. Hernandez-D'Anna, Oliver J. Bosch, Joseph S. Lonstein)
 

August 2019

Neural Mechanisms of Tactile Texture Perception (Justin D. Lieber, Sliman J. Bensmaia)
 

July 2019

Gut dysbiosis and recovery of function after spinal cord injury (Kristina A. Kigerl, Phillip G. Popovich)
Neuroendocrine Influences on Human Sexuality (Ashlyn Swift-Gallant, S. Marc Breedlove)
Neuroendocrine Regulation of Seasonal Reproduction (Elisabetta Tolla, Jonathan H. Pérez, Ian C. Dunn, Simone L. Meddle, Tyler J. Stevenson)
 

June 2019

Homeostatic Plasticity in the CNS (Peter Wenner, Pernille Bülow)
Plastic Changes After Spinal Cord Injury (Kaitlin Farrell, Megan R. Detloff, John D. Houle)
Thirst and Water Balance (Derek Daniels)
 

May 2019

Caenorhabditis elegans Learning and Memory (James S.H. Wong, Catharine H. Rankin)
Autonomic Regulation of the Eye (Paul J. May, Anton Reiner, Paul D. Gamlin)
Cephalopod Nervous System Organization (Z. Yan Wang, Clifton W. Ragsdale)
Membrane-initiated estradiol signaling in the central nervous system (Paul E. Micevych, Melinda A. Mittelman-Smith)
Molecular Regulation of Energy Balance (D. Grahame Hardie, A. Mark Evans)
Neural Control of Lower Urinary Tract Function (Jonathan M. Beckel, William C. de Groat)
Regulation of Gonadotropins (Daniel J. Bernard, Yining Li, Chirine Toufaily, Gauthier Schang)
Sensing the Environment with Whiskers (Mathew H. Evans, Michaela S.E. Loft, Dario Campagner, Rasmus S. Petersen)
Single Neuron Computational Modeling (Yeonjoo Yoo, Fabrizio Gabbiani)
Transcriptomic Architecture of Reproductive Plasticity (Susan C. P. Renn, Nadia Aubin-Horth)
 

April 2019

Neurobiology of Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid Abuse (Ruth I. Wood, Kathryn G. Wallin-Miller)
 

March 2019

Crustacean Visual Circuits Underlying Behavior (Daniel Tomsic, Julieta Sztarker)
 

February 2019

Regulation of Chloride Gradients and Neural Plasticity (Jimena Perez-Sanchez, Yves De Koninck)
The Hypocretin Arousal Network (Jeremy C. Borniger, Luis de Lecea)
 

January 2019

Deep Neural Networks in Computational Neuroscience (Tim C. Kietzmann, Patrick McClure, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte)
Mechanisms of Behavioral Changes After Spinal Cord Injury (Karim Fouad, Abel Torres-Espín, Keith K. Fenrich)

October 2018

September 2018

Molecular Regulation of Energy Balance (D. Grahame Hardie, A. Mark Evans), summary
Network Analyses and Nervous System Disorders (John D. Medaglia, Danielle S. Bassett)

August 2018

Autonomic Thermoregulation (Thad E. Wilson, Kristen Metzler-Wilson)

July 2018

June 2018

May 2018

Jellyfish Locomotion (Richard Satterlie)

April 2018

Raptor Vision (Mindaugas Mitkus, Simon Potier, Graham R. Martin, Olivier Duriez, Almut Kelber)

March 2018

The Functional Organization of Vertebrate Retinal Circuits for Vision (Tom Baden, Timm Schubert, Philipp Berens, Thomas Euler)

February 2018

Annelid Vision (Cynthia M. Harley, Mark K. Asplen)
Cephalochordate Nervous System (Simona Candiani, Mario Pestarino)
Hemichordate Nervous System (Norio Miyamoto, Hiroshi Wada)

January 2018

Drosophila Olfaction (Quentin Gaudry, Jonathan Schenk)
Echinoderm Nervous System (Carlos A. Díaz-Balzac, José E. García-Arrarás)
Neuroimmunology: Behavioral Effects (Gretchen N. Neigh, Mandakh Bekhbat, Sydney A. Rowson)
Visual Shape and Object Perception (Anitha Pasupathy, Yasmine El-Shamayleh, Dina V. Popovkina)

December 2017

Caenorhabditis elegans Olfaction (Douglas K. Reilly, Jagan Srinivasan)
Cephalopod Nervous System Organization (Z. Yan Wang, Clifton W. Ragsdale), summary

October 2017

September 2017

Leech Behavioral Choice (William B. Kristan Jr.)
Sensing Polarized Light in Insects (Thomas F. Mathejczyk, Mathias F. Wernet)

August 2017

Cortical Processing of Odorants (Yaniv Cohen, Emmanuelle Courtiol, Regina M. Sullivan, Donald A. Wilson)
Stomatopod Vision (Thomas W. Cronin, N. Justin Marshall, Roy L. Caldwell)
Urochordate Nervous Systems (Kerrianne Ryan, Ian A. Meinertzhagen)

July 2017

Cephalopod Olfaction (Anna Di Cosmo, Gianluca Polese)
Leech Mechanosensation (Brian D. Burrell)
Visual Attention (Sabine Kastner, Timothy J. Buschman)
Xenacoelomorpha Nervous Systems (Pedro Martínez, Volker Hartenstein, Simon G. Sprecher)

June 2017

Caenorhabditis elegans Feeding Behaviors (Nicolas Dallière, Lindy Holden-Dye, James Dillon, Vincent O'Connor, Robert J. Walker)

April 2017

Raptor Vision (Simon Potier, Mindaugas Mitkus, Olivier Duriez, Almut Kelber, Graham Martin), summary
Steroids and Plasticity (Alyssa L. Pedersen, Colin J. Saldanha)

March 2017

Crustacean Olfaction (Charles Derby, Manfred Schmidt)
Invertebrate Nociception (Nathaniel J. Himmel, Atit A. Patel, Daniel N. Cox)

February 2017

Behavioral Neuroendocrinology of Female Aggression (Natalia Duque-Wilckens, Brian C. Trainor)
Drosophila Olfaction (Quentin Gaudry, Jonathan Schenk), summary
Thalamocortical Interactions for Sensory Processing (Jose M. Alonso, Harvey A. Swadlow)

December 2016

Network Analyses and Nervous System Disorders (Danielle S. Bassett, John Medaglia), summary
 

September 2016

Cephalopod Olfaction (Anna Di Cosmo, Gianluca Polese) (summary)
Stomatopod Vision (Thomas W. Cronin, N. Justin Marshall, Roy L. Caldwell) (summary)
Urochordate Nervous Systems (Kerrianne Ryan, Ian A. Meinertzhagen) (summary)
 

August 2016

Developmental Neurobiology of Anxiety and Related Disorders (Emily M. Cohodes, Dylan G. Gee) (summary)
Stomatogastric Nervous System (Wolfgang Stein) (summary)
 

July 2016

Leech Mechanosensation (Brian D. Burrell) (summary)
 

June 2016

C. elegans Feeding (Nicolas Dallière, Lindy Holden-Dye, Vincent O'Connor, Robert J. Walker) (summary)
Postnatal Neurogenesis in the Olfactory Bulb (Aleksandra Polosukhina, Pierre-Marie Lledo) (summary)
 

May 2016

Biosonar and Sound Localization in Dolphins (Paul E. Nachtigall) (summary)
 

April 2016

 

February 2016

Behavioral Neuroendocrinology of Female Aggression (Natalia Duque-Wilckens, Brian C. Trainor) (summary)