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6 Recommended Articles from PLOS Biology Senior Editor Gabriel Gasque
Our staff editors continue to share recent exciting, interesting, and thought-provoking PLOS Biology reads in this recommended articles series. This week, Senior Editor Gabriel Gasque shares 6 picks for the PLOS Biology community.
Resting-state brain and spinal cord networks in humans are functionally integrated
From the Abstract:
“We show that the brain and spinal cord activities are strongly correlated during rest periods, and specific spinal cord regions are functionally linked to consistently reported brain sensorimotor RSNs.”
From the Abstract:
“Our data provide a mechanism that connects spastin dysfunction with the regulation of kinesin-mediated cargo transport, synapse integrity, and cognition “
tACS entrains neural activity while somatosensory input is blocked
From the Abstract:
“These data are therefore consistent with the direct stimulation hypothesis and suggest that peripheral somatosensory stimulation is not required for tACS to entrain neurons.”
Hippocampal neurons with stable excitatory connectivity become part of neuronal representations
From the Abstract:
“We discovered that neurons that will prospectively express Arc have slower turnover of synaptic connectivity, thus suggesting that synaptic stability prior to experience can bias neurons to become part of representations or possibly engrams.”
From the Abstract:
“We propose that APP proteins represent a novel family of neuroglial signaling factors required for adult brain homeostasis.”
Generalizable brain network markers of major depressive disorder across multiple imaging sites
From the Abstract
“We address the difficulty of finding a generalizable marker of major depressive disorder (MDD) that would distinguish patients from healthy controls based on resting-state functional connectivity patterns.”