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Keeping a lid on it

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The protein Npas4 dampens activated excitatory brain circuits by recruiting inhibitory signals to excitatory neurons. It emerges that this protein has the opposite role in some inhibitory neurons, promoting their activity.

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Figure 1: Balancing excitation levels.

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  1. Gina Turrigiano is in the Department of Biology, Center for Complex Systems, and at the Center for Behavioral Genomics, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA.,

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