Table of contents
February 2008 Vol 9 No 2
From the editors
p77 | doi:10.1038/nrn2322
Research Highlights
Neural coding: The power of one | PDF (202 KB)
p78 | doi:10.1038/nrn2329
Sensory perception: One TRPM8 fits all | PDF (208 KB)
p79 | doi:10.1038/nrn2323
Neurological disorders: A fragile balance | PDF (208 KB)
p79 | doi:10.1038/nrn2324
Behaviour: Mating games | PDF (189 KB)
p80 | doi:10.1038/nrn2316
Memory: Separating the wheat from the chaff | PDF (319 KB)
p80 | doi:10.1038/nrn2320
In the news
Restoring connections | PDF (76 KB)
p80 | doi:10.1038/nrn2328
In brief
Repair | Stress | Local protein synthesis | Aging | PDF (91 KB)
p81 | doi:10.1038/nrn2326
Synaptic plasticity: Learning through continuing potentiation | PDF (151 KB)
p82 | doi:10.1038/nrn2321
Development: A complement from the immune system | PDF (400 KB)
p82 | doi:10.1038/nrn2325
Neurodegenerative disease: Undoing aggregation | PDF (220 KB)
p83 | doi:10.1038/nrn2318
Protein homeostasis: External influence | PDF (224 KB)
p84 | doi:10.1038/nrn2319
In brief
Neurotransmitters | Brain stimulation | Development | Sleep | PDF (90 KB)
p84 | doi:10.1038/nrn2327
Reviews
Targeting the murine serotonin transporter: insights into human neurobiology
Dennis L. Murphy & Klaus-Peter Lesch
p85 | doi:10.1038/nrn2284
Many human neurological traits are linked to variations in the gene that encodes the serotonin transporter. Murphy and Lesch describe the phenotypes of mice with altered serotonin-transporter function, emphasizing how this might inform our understanding of the transporter's roles in humans.
Regulation of spike timing in visual cortical circuits
Paul Tiesinga, Jean-Marc Fellous & Terrence J. Sejnowski
p97 | doi:10.1038/nrn2315
Neurons might encode information in the timing of action potentials, but evidence for this processing in vivo has been elusive. Sejnowski and colleagues describe how to uncover precise and reliable spike timing and discuss its contribution to cortical computation.
Development of the human cerebral cortex: Boulder Committee revisited
Irina Bystron, Colin Blakemore & Pasko Rakic
p110 | doi:10.1038/nrn2252
In 1970 the Boulder Committee met to standardize the nomenclature used to describe the developing human cortex. Bystron and colleagues describe how new insights since that time have led to the need to revise this nomenclature, and provide their recommendations.
Interpreting fMRI data: maps, modules and dimensions
Hans P. Op de Beeck, Johannes Haushofer & Nancy G. Kanwisher
p123 | doi:10.1038/nrn2314
The ventral visual pathway contains both category-selective graded maps and distinct modules. The authors discuss the properties that define maps and modules, consider whether modules are parts of maps, and propose that different graded maps might combine to form discrete selective modules.
Actin-binding proteins take the reins in growth cones
Chi W. Pak, Kevin C. Flynn & James R. Bamburg
p136 | doi:10.1038/nrn2236
Growth-cone migration during neuronal development is guided by dynamic networks of actin filaments. Bamburg and colleagues review how actin-binding proteins influence the formation of these networks and discuss their role in growth-cone pathfinding and potential implications for axonal regeneration.
Perspective
Opinion
On the relationship between emotion and cognition
Luiz Pessoa
p148 | doi:10.1038/nrn2317
Neuroscientists often refer to brain areas as being 'affective' or 'cognitive'. In this Opinion article, Luiz Pessoa argues that complex behaviours are based on dynamic coalitions of brain networks and that there are no specifically 'affective' or 'cognitive' brain areas.
