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  • In humans, the anterior lateral prefrontal cortex is crucial for assessing the likelihood that a future decision will be correct.

    • Damon Tomlin
    Research Highlight
  • Analyses of recurrent neural networks and neural data show how the concept of magnitude is generalized across different contexts.

    • Natasha Bray
    Research Highlight
  • TREM2 acts to limit the progression of amyloid-β-driven tau pathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer disease.

    • Katherine Whalley
    Research Highlight
  • In this Comment, Riquelme and Gjorgjieva describe why and how individual researchers and the broader neuroscientific community should aim to improve code readability in the field.

    • Juan Luis Riquelme
    • Julijana Gjorgjieva
    Comment
  • Stressful experience increases erroneous choices in a reward-based learning task by weakening excitatory synapses in the lateral habenula via a reduction in AMPA-receptor-mediated synaptic transmission.

    • Sian Lewis
    Research Highlight
  • A neuroprosthetic baroreflex can restore haemodynamic stability in models of acute and chronic spinal cord injury.

    • Katherine Whalley
    Research Highlight
  • Activity in different parts of the mouse striatum is faithfully predicted by topographically connected areas of cortex.

    • Natasha Bray
    Research Highlight
  • Projections from the anterior cingulate cortex to the nucleus accumbens are required for the social transfer of pain or analgesia in mice.

    • Darran Yates
    Research Highlight
  • In flies, neurons that are common to both sexes regulate aggressive approach, whereas other, sex-specific neurons control attack behaviours.

    • Natasha Bray
    Research Highlight
  • The innate responses of mice to sweet-tasting or bitter-tasting stimuli can be modulated by top-down feedback from the cortex.

    • Katherine Whalley
    Research Highlight
  • A new study provides evidence suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 may be able to enter the CNS via the neural–mucosal interface in the olfactory mucosa.

    • Darran Yates
    Research Highlight