How Legs Were Lost during Snake Evolution/ Curr. Biol., Oct. 20, 2016 (Vol. 26, Issue 21) - Most snakes are completely limbless, but some snakes diverged from the lineage leading to the advanced snake...
Central Control of Insect Locomotion - Insect locomotion, for example walking, depends on stereotypical movements that are generated locally by neural circuits - but, as John Bender and Roy Ritzmann e...
In this video, Ira Espuny-Camacho and Pierre Vanderhaeghen describe how human pluripotent stem cells can be turned into cortical pyramidal neurons, mimicking key aspects of human corticogenesis. Most ...
How Curiosity Changes the Brain and Enhances Learning
Charan Ranganath and Matthias Gruber summarize their findings that demonstrate that curiosity changes brain activity within the dopaminergic circuit. Further......
Drosophila CNS Glutamate Receptors Break the Rules
Using structural and electrophysiological techniques Li, Dharkar et al. find that Drosophila CNS glutamate receptors have unexpected ligand selectivity. The kainate receptor DKaiR1D is inhibited by NM...