Long Wake/Short Sleep Bouts and Hyperactivity with Advanced Age in a Mouse Model of Early Onset Alzheimers Disease

This study demonstrates that aged AppNL-G-F mice, a model of early-onset Alzheimer's disease, exhibit a progressive phenotype of hyperactivity, fragmented sleep with long wake bouts, and reduced NREM/REM sleep—particularly in females—suggesting that amyloid-beta deposition impairs state transition mechanisms and validating this strain for investigating early-stage interventions.

Tisdale, R. K., Sun, Y., Miller, S. R. + 6 more2026-03-30🧠 neuroscience

Precision phase targeting of event-related oscillations using real-time closed-loop TMS-EEG

This paper introduces and validates a real-time closed-loop TMS-EEG system that directly detects oscillatory phase without prediction, demonstrating superior triggering probability and phase precision compared to traditional prediction-based methods for targeting both spontaneous and event-related brain oscillations during active cognition.

Güth, M. R., Headley, D. B., Baker, T. E.2026-03-30🧠 neuroscience

Changes in perineuronal net and parvalbumin expression in the orbitofrontal cortex of male Wistar rats following repeated fentanyl administration

This study demonstrates that repeated fentanyl administration in male Wistar rats induces antinociceptive tolerance and duration-dependent alterations in perineuronal net and parvalbumin expression within the orbitofrontal cortex, suggesting these structural changes mediate opioid-induced behavioral effects.

Dejeux, M. I. H., Jewanee, S. S., Moutos, S. + 9 more2026-03-30🧠 neuroscience

Neurobehavioral Effects of Dry Hit Nicotine E-Cigarette Vapor Inhalation in Adolescent Wistar Rats

This study demonstrates that adolescent Wistar rats exposed to dry-hit nicotine e-cigarette vapor exhibit distinct behavioral responses, including increased open-arm exploration in the elevated plus maze, and show significantly elevated perineuronal net expression specifically in the central nucleus of the amygdala compared to those exposed to saturated vapor.

Ogden, A., Wright, S., Kasaram, S. V. + 6 more2026-03-30🧠 neuroscience

Integrated heart rate variability and physiological profiling reveals autonomic phenotypes in older adults from a high-southern-latitude population

By integrating heart rate variability with demographic, anthropometric, and cardiovascular data in a high-southern-latitude cohort of older adults, this study demonstrates that autonomic regulation is best characterized as a multidimensional physiological continuum rather than by isolated descriptors, revealing six distinct autonomic phenotypes with significant implications for risk stratification.

Medina-Ortiz, D., Castillo-Aguilar, M., Mabe-Castro, D. + 2 more2026-03-30🧠 neuroscience