Table of contents
From the editors
p165 | doi:10.1038/nrn2611
Research Highlights
Neuroimaging: Interpreting the signal | PDF (208 KB)
p166 | doi:10.1038/nrn2599
Sensory systems: Protective feedback | PDF (153 KB)
p167 | doi:10.1038/nrn2600
Neuroimmunology: Limiting the damage | PDF (147 KB)
p167 | doi:10.1038/nrn2605
Neurotrophic factors: Tuning precursor secretion | PDF (163 KB)
p168 | doi:10.1038/nrn2597
Molecular neuroscience: Right time, right place | PDF (202 KB)
p168 | doi:10.1038/nrn2601
In brief
Axon guidance | Chemical senses | Learning and memory | Repair | PDF (125 KB)
p168 | doi:10.1038/nrn2612
In brief
Decision making | Neuroimaging | Sleep | Neuropeptides | PDF (110 KB)
p169 | doi:10.1038/nrn2613
Learning and memory: Past times | PDF (176 KB)
p170 | doi:10.1038/nrn2602
Synaptic integration: Multiplying gain | PDF (152 KB)
p170 | doi:10.1038/nrn2609
Development: Staying on course with PIAS3 | PDF (206 KB)
p171 | doi:10.1038/nrn2604
Neurotransmission: Clamping complexin | PDF (164 KB)
p172 | doi:10.1038/nrn2607
In the news
Eating less to remember more | PDF (99 KB)
p172 | doi:10.1038/nrn2610
Reviews
Extracting information from neuronal populations: information theory and decoding approaches
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga & Stefano Panzeri
p173 | doi:10.1038/nrn2578
Recording from neuronal populations is a promising and powerful neuroscience technique; however, interpreting the resulting spike trains presents several challenges. Quian Quiroga and Panzeri discuss how decoding algorithms and information theory can be used to extract information from population recordings.
Complex brain networks: graph theoretical analysis of structural and functional systems
Ed Bullmore & Olaf Sporns
p186 | doi:10.1038/nrn2575
In recent years, the principles of network science have increasingly been applied to the study of the brain's structural and functional organization. Bullmore and Sporns review this growing field of research and discuss its contributions to our understanding of brain function.
There is a Corrigendum (1 April 2009) associated with this article.
Article series: Sleep
How (and why) the immune system makes us sleep
Luca Imeri & Mark R. Opp
p199 | doi:10.1038/nrn2576
In this Review, Imeri and Opp describe how interactions between cytokines and the serotonin system contribute to the regulation of both normal sleep and the sleep alterations that occur during infection, and discuss the possible adaptive function of altered sleep during sickness.
The locus coeruleus and noradrenergic modulation of cognition
Susan J. Sara
p211 | doi:10.1038/nrn2573
The locus coeruleus (LC) is the sole source of noradrenaline in the forebrain. Susan Sara revisits the early theories of the function of the LC noradrenaline system and discusses recent data that implicate this system in sensory processing, learning and memory.
A single standard for memory: the case for reconsolidation
Karim Nader & Oliver Hardt
p224 | doi:10.1038/nrn2590
Do remote memories re-stabilize after reactivation? Nader and Hardt analyse data and interpretations from consolidation and reconsolidation studies and establish that newly acquired and reactivated remote memories share almost all of their basic characteristics, concluding that reconsolidation restores reactivated memories.
Perspectives
Article series: Neuron-glia interactions
Opinion
The bright side of the glial scar in CNS repair
Asya Rolls, Ravid Shechter & Michal Schwartz
p235 | doi:10.1038/nrn2591
The effects of the glial scar on regeneration after injury have traditionally been viewed as inhibitory. Schwartz and colleagues discuss the evidence that scar tissue can have a beneficial role in the repair process and propose that the timing of scar generation and degradation is crucial in determining its effects.
Correspondence
Correspondence: More attention and greater awareness in the scientific study of magic
Peter Lamont & John M. Henderson
p241 | doi:10.1038/nrn2473-c1
Correspondence: Real magic: future studies of magic should be grounded in neuroscience
Stephen L. Macknik & Susana Martinez-Conde
p241 | doi:10.1038/nrn2473-c2
Erratum: DNA repair deficiency and neurological disease
Peter J. McKinnon
p242 | doi:10.1038/nrn2592
Corrigendum: Silent synapses and the emergence of a postsynaptic mechanism for LTP
Geoffrey A. Kerchner & Roger A. Nicoll
p242 | doi:10.1038/nrn2595
Erratum: Conflict-induced behavioural adjustment: a clue to the executive functions of the prefrontal cortex
Farshad A. Mansouri, Keiji Tanaka & Mark J. Buckley
p242 | doi:10.1038/nrn2596
