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The modern human variant of the gene transketolase-like 1, but not the Neanderthal variant, promotes the production of basal radial glia during neocortical development.

Axo-ciliary synapses that enable rapid signalling to the nucleus are identified in the mouse hippocampus.

Neuromodulation with specific frequencies at specific brain locations selectively enhances either working memory or long-term memory in older adult humans.

A study in male mice finds that neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis shape hypothalamic neural representations to control the transition from appetitive to consummatory innate social behaviour towards conspecifics of both sexes.

A new study shows that many olfactory sensory neurons in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes express more than one type of chemosensory receptor and some of these neurons can respond to multiple olfactory cues.

Combining high-throughput fluorescence-activated cell sorting and single-cell RNA sequencing, neurons with and without neurofibrillary tangles from people with Alzheimer disease were shown to have different molecular signatures.

Subtypes of pyramidal neurons influence the transcriptomic states of nearby microglia in the mouse somatosensory cortex.

Dynamin mediates vesicle scission during endocytosis, and here is shown to exist with syndapin 1 in biomolecular condensates at the endocytic zone that enable its participation in ultrafast endocytosis.

A study in mice finds that different dopamine neuron subsystems in the midbrain track food and fluid ingestion at different stages of this process, and that animals can use this information to learn about the results of ingestion.

Core features of the language network in the brain are consistent across languages and language families.

A subpopulation of GABAergic neurons in the mouse VTA drives restorative sleep in response to social defeat stress.

Dendritic arbors are shaped by adhesion-molecule interactions between developing dendrites and the extracellular environment that are transduced by dendritic mechanosensitive channels into local calcium transients.

Brain lesions in individuals who subsequently show remission of smoking addiction share a common connectivity profile.

A new study shows that α-synuclein can interact with protein components of membraneless organelles involved in mRNA metabolism, and that such interactions may have relevance in Parkinson disease.

What’s the point of public engagement? Why can’t we just be neuroscience researchers? In this Comment I will argue that communicating our science is a key aspect of being a neuroscientist and that our science can be enriched by this.

A population of fever-generating neurons in the hypothalamus coordinates diverse sickness behaviours in mice.