The Third Reviewer

Aiqun Hu, Wei Zhang, and Zuoren Wang

Feedback plays important roles in sensory processing. Mushroom bodies are believed to be involved in olfactory learning/memory and multisensory integration in . . . → Read More: Functional feedback from mushroom bodies to antennal lobes in the Drosophila olfactory pathway

David A. Wolk, Bradford C. Dickerson, and the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

The ?4 allele of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is the major genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but limited . . . → Read More: Apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype has dissociable effects on memory and attentional–executive network function in Alzheimer’s disease

Sebastian P. Galuska, Manuela Rollenhagen, Moritz Kaup, Katinka Eggers, Imke Oltmann-Norden, Miriam Schiff, Maike Hartmann, Birgit Weinhold, Herbert Hildebrandt, Rudolf Geyer, Martina Mühlenhoff, and Hildegard Geyer

Among the large set of cell surface glycan structures, the carbohydrate polymer polysialic acid (polySia) plays an important . . . → Read More: Synaptic cell adhesion molecule SynCAM 1 is a target for polysialylation in postnatal mouse brain

Naoya Takahashi, Takuya Sasaki, Wataru Matsumoto, Norio Matsuki, and Yuji Ikegaya

Spike synchronization underlies information processing and storage in the brain. But how can neurons synchronize in a noisy . . . → Read More: Circuit topology for synchronizing neurons in spontaneously active networks

Marieke L. Schölvinck, Alexander Maier, Frank Q. Ye, Jeff H. Duyn, David A. Leopold

Functional MRI (fMRI) has uncovered widespread hemodynamic fluctuations in the brain during rest. Recent electroencephalographic . . . → Read More: Neural basis of global resting-state fMRI activity

Anastassios V. Tzingounis, Matthias Heidenreich, Tatjana Kharkovets, Guillermo Spitzmaul, Henrik S. Jensen, Roger A. Nicoll, Thomas J. Jentsch

Mutations in KCNQ2 and KCNQ3 voltage-gated potassium channels lead to neonatal epilepsy as a consequence of their key role . . . → Read More: The KCNQ5 potassium channel mediates a component of the afterhyperpolarization current in mouse hippocampus

Ke Zhou, Lei Mo, Paul Kay, Veronica P. Y. Kwok, Tiffany N. M. Ip,  Li Hai Tan

Linguistic categories have been shown to influence perceptual discrimination, to do so preferentially in the right visual . . . → Read More: Newly trained lexical categories produce lateralized categorical perception of color

Klas Tybrandt, Karin C. Larsson, Agneta Richter-Dahlfors, and Magnus Berggren

Dynamic control of chemical microenvironments is essential for continued development in numerous fields of life sciences. . . . → Read More: Ion bipolar junction transistors