1541 papers
Neuroscience explores the intricate machinery of the brain and nervous system, seeking to understand how we think, feel, and move. From the microscopic dance of individual neurons to the complex networks that shape our memories and behaviors, this field peels back the layers of our biological selves to reveal the origins of consciousness and disease.
At Gist.Science, we bring these discoveries directly from bioRxiv, the leading preprint server for biological sciences, to a broader audience. We process every new neuroscience preprint as it is uploaded, transforming dense academic manuscripts into clear, plain-language explanations alongside detailed technical summaries. This ensures that both curious readers and specialists can stay current with the latest breakthroughs before they are formally published.
Below are the latest neuroscience papers we have processed from bioRxiv, offering fresh insights into the workings of the mind.
This study identifies specific RNA-binding proteins (RBFOX1/2/3, CELF4, HNRNPR, and nELAVL) that regulate local synaptic translation as key convergent mechanisms linking schizophrenia genetic risk to post-transcriptional control of synaptic function.
By combining high-sensitivity force measurements with real-time in vivo microscopy, this study quantifies the mechanics of microscale probe insertion into brain tissue, revealing that blood vessel rupture can be entirely avoided for probes under 25 µm through displacement rather than tearing, thereby establishing a three-zone model and design rules for low-trauma neural interfaces.
This study demonstrates that glucose concentration in neuronal culture media significantly influences PINK1-dependent mitophagy in human induced neurons, with BrainPhys medium reducing glucose availability and PINK1 protein levels, thereby impairing both basal and stress-induced mitophagy compared to N2B27 medium.
This study demonstrates that cortical motor activity in newborns is coupled with respiratory phases, particularly during inspiration, and that stronger cortico-respiratory coupling is associated with a reduced rate of apnoea, suggesting a functional role for the cortex in regulating breathing and mitigating this common neonatal pathology.
This study demonstrates that the recruitment of endocytic proteins to the periactive zone of nerve terminals is a constitutive process that occurs independently of active zone assembly and synaptic activity.
This study reveals that aging selectively impairs dopamine-glutamate co-releasing neurons, which constitute the majority of dopaminergic projections to the lateral entorhinal cortex, leading to weakened dopamine signaling and reduced synthesis capacity without widespread axonal degeneration.
This study demonstrates that voluntary decisions, like perceptual ones, are formed through a graded neural accumulation process indexed by the centro-parietal positivity (CPP) and motor readiness indexed by Mu/Beta amplitudes, with no reliable neural differences observed between voluntary and forced choice conditions.
Using event-related fMRI, this study provides the first direct neuroimaging evidence for the integration-segregation theory of exogenous attention by identifying dissociable neural substrates, where cued targets engage frontoparietal networks for integration and uncued targets activate medial temporal regions for segregation.
This study reveals that mice transition from slow, plasticity-dependent value learning to rapid, inference-based value computation through basolateral amygdala (BLA) dynamics, a mechanism successfully modeled by recurrent neural networks that shift from weight updates to state-based inference.
By applying Gaussian Process methods to analyze four-dimensional tuning curves of grid cells in freely foraging rats, this study reveals that position and velocity tuning are often non-separable, a complex interaction that remains undetected in traditional two-dimensional analyses.