Acts of appetite: neural circuits governing the appetitive, consummatory, and terminating phases of feeding

IC Alcantara, APM Tapia, Y Aponte, MJ Krashes - Nature metabolism, 2022 - nature.com
The overconsumption of highly caloric and palatable foods has caused a surge in obesity
rates in the past half century, thereby posing a healthcare challenge due to the array of …

The cerebellar cortex

C Hull, WG Regehr - Annual review of neuroscience, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The cerebellar cortex is an important system for relating neural circuits and learning. Its
promise reflects the longstanding idea that it contains simple, repeated circuit modules with …

Linking the cerebellum to Parkinson disease: an update

T Li, W Le, J Jankovic - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2023 - nature.com
Parkinson disease (PD) is characterized by heterogeneous motor and non-motor symptoms,
resulting from neurodegeneration involving various parts of the central nervous system …

A single-cell resolution gene expression atlas of the larval zebrafish brain

I Shainer, E Kuehn, E Laurell, M Al Kassar… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The advent of multimodal brain atlases promises to accelerate progress in neuroscience by
allowing in silico queries of neuron morphology, connectivity, and gene expression. We …

Disentangling genetic risks for metabolic syndrome

ES van Walree, IE Jansen, NY Bell, JE Savage… - Diabetes, 2022 - Am Diabetes Assoc
A quarter of the world's population is estimated to meet the criteria for metabolic syndrome
(MetS), a cluster of cardiometabolic risk factors that promote development of coronary artery …

Cerebellum lecture: the cerebellar nuclei—core of the cerebellum

JM Kebschull, F Casoni, GG Consalez, D Goldowitz… - The Cerebellum, 2024 - Springer
The cerebellum is a key player in many brain functions and a major topic of neuroscience
research. However, the cerebellar nuclei (CN), the main output structures of the cerebellum …

Oxytocin-based therapies for treatment of Prader-Willi and Schaaf-Yang syndromes: evidence, disappointments, and future research strategies

F Althammer, F Muscatelli, V Grinevich… - Translational …, 2022 - nature.com
The prosocial neuropeptide oxytocin is being developed as a potential treatment for various
neuropsychiatric disorders including autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Early studies using …

Novel cerebello-amygdala connections provide missing link between cerebellum and limbic system

SJ Jung, K Vlasov, AF D'Ambra, A Parigi… - Frontiers in systems …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The cerebellum is emerging as a powerful regulator of cognitive and affective processing
and memory in both humans and animals and has been implicated in affective disorders …

Sensory spinal interoceptive pathways and energy balance regulation

H Münzberg, HR Berthoud, WL Neuhuber - Molecular Metabolism, 2023 - Elsevier
Interoception plays an important role in homeostatic regulation of energy intake and
metabolism. Major interoceptive pathways include gut-to-brain and adipose tissue-to brain …

Construction of complex memories via parallel distributed cortical–subcortical iterative integration

N McNaughton, SD Vann - Trends in neurosciences, 2022 - cell.com
The construction of complex engrams requires hippocampal–cortical interactions. These
include both direct interactions and ones via often-overlooked subcortical loops. Here, we …