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Regulation of the afterdepolarization and action potential bursting in CA1 hippocampal pyramidal cells	Estrogen regulation of inhibitory synapses in hippocampal CA1

Intrinsic plasticity in CA1 pyramidal neurons: Role of Ca2+- and Na+-activated potassium currents in aging and Alzheimer's disease	The role of contralateral and ipsilateral descending motor pathways in the expression of abnormal coordination patterns in hemiparetic stroke subjects

The role of the N-terminus of tau in Alzheimer's disease	Mechanisms of proteasome inhibition in neurodegenerative diseases

Regulation of autonomous pacemaking and high frequency firing in the basal ganglia	Neuroinflammation in an Alzheimer's disease animal model and the effectiveness of selective suppression of glial activation

Neurofibrillary tangles and granulovacuolar degeneration bodies: Examining protein aggregation and accumulation	Stem cells: Defining and reprogramming a neural lineage

Properties of retinal ganglion cell receptive fields at the lower limit of visual sensitivity	Memory and lexical processing in primary progressive aphasia

Motivational incentives enhance top-down modulation of visual spatial attention in healthy aging and mild cognitive impairment but not probable Alzheimer's disease	Cholinergic regulation of corticostriatal signaling in striatal medium spiny neurons and cellular adaptation following dopamine depletion

Validating dissociations between human memory subtypes: Conceptual priming, familiarity, and recollection	Engineering bioactive factor releasing polymeric scaffolds for nerve regeneration

The role of extracellular signaling molecules in astroglial lineage commitment	Primary progressive aphasia: Perspectives from functional and structural neuroimaging

Studies of the homeostatic and metabolic regulation of the GnRH pulse generator	Intrinsic and extrinsic factors regulating neural progenitor cell fate commitment

Genetic and anatomical regulation of sleep in Drosophila: A role for the mushroom bodies, circadian neurons, and the gene, Clock, in sleep promotion	Mechanisms underlying response suppression in cat visual cortex

Perceptual learning and binaural processing	Trafficking mechanism of H channels in CA1 pyramidal neurons and its implication in the pathophysiology of temporal lobe epilepsy

N-cadherin function in cell fate specification of cortical precursor cells	Functional characterization of the multi-domain herpesvirus essential tegument protein VP1/2: At the core of infectious processes

Independent neural control of motions and forces	Glial activation links early-life seizures and increased susceptibility to seizures in adulthood

The role of early growth response transcriptional regulators in neurotrophin signaling and sympathetic nervous system development	Nuclear and extranuclear estrogen receptor-alpha in the hippocampus

Instantiating two learning systems in the brain: Cognitive modeling and fMRI analyses of visual category learning	The N-terminus of tau in filament formation and the regulation of axonal transport: A perspective on tau assembly and toxicity

Musical training enhances brainstem and cortical representation of speech and music	A biorobotic study of the rat whisker system

A key to understanding social communication deficits in autism spectrum disorders: Neural processing of sound and speech intonation	Temporal features of speech in the auditory system: Normal and dyslexic children and an animal model

Synaptic transmission and plasticity in cerebellar nuclear neurons	Engineering spatial patterns of gene expression: Fundamental studies of guided cellular processes and applications to tissue regeneration

The role of chemokine signaling in models of peripheral neuropathic pain	Synaptic integration in excitable CA1 pyramidal neuron dendrites

Activity- and drug-induced plasticity of synaptic and intrinsic properties in pyramidal neurons of the rat hippocampus	Predictive activity in macaque frontal eye field neurons during standard and natural scene searching

Mechanisms regulating astrogliosis and functional recovery following spinal cord injury	Differential effects of physiological temperature changes on central versus peripheral circadian clocks in mice

Human auditory brainstem representation of transient and sustained acoustic cues for speech	Cellular responses underlying functional recovery following spinal cord injury

The influence of age on the neurophysiologic and neurobehavioral response to sleep deprivation and subsequent recovery	The behavioral and neural basis for the facilitation of insight problem-solving by a positive mood

Cloning, characterization, and functional analysis of the zebrafish Disrupted in Schizophrenia 1 ortholog	Building better models of the CA1 pyramidal neuron: A combined computational and experimental approach

The role of the negative feedback loop genes, Cryptochrome and Period, in circadian rhythmicity	Bioinformatic techniques in Drosophila circadian biology: An interdisciplinary approach to gene discovery and behavior analysis of the circadian clock of Drosophila melanogaster

Function and production of the chemokines CCL2 and CCL7 during brain inflammation	Learning- and aging-related alterations in the BK-mediated fast afterhyperpolarization

Role of nPIST in activity-dependent synaptic trafficking of AMPARs	Learning to move for rewards

Alpha-E-catenin function in the developing neocortex	The role of spatial and temporal Clock gene expression in mammalian circadian rhythms

Molecular mechanisms regulating tau pre-mRNA alternative splicing	Genetic and neuroanatomic regulation of circadian and light-induced behavior in Drosophila

Bone morphogenetic protein signaling mediated neuronal differentiation	Phosphorylation of the C-terminal PSD-95/discs large/zona occludens-1 (PDZ) binding site of stargazin regulates its trafficking in bidirectional synaptic plasticity

The effects of MeCP2 deficiency on the strength of specific microcircuits in mouse motor/frontal cortex	Generation of neocortical diversity through spatial and temporal beta-catenin signaling gradients

Regulation of feed-forward and feedback contributions to ankle stability during balance tasks	Cell migration and proliferation in postnatal murine subventricular zone neurogenesis: Roles of the epidermal growth factor receptor and dopamine receptor 3

Altering and measuring changes in neural connectivity and behavior using Hebbianconditioning	The role of beta-catenin signaling and N-cadherin in the maintenance of neural progenitor cell identity during mammalian cortical development

Role of p21 activated kinases in the neuroendocrine actions of estrogen	Perceptual and neural correlates of emotion regulation

Bilateral limb phase relationship and its potential to alter muscle activity phasing during locomotion post-stroke	Membrane cholesterol in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

Akt signaling from brain development to Alzheimer's disease	The role of TRIP8b in neuronal HCN channel trafficking and function

The Role of Brain Bmal1 on Circadian Behavioral Rhythms and Entrainment to Food Restriction	Presynaptic mechanisms of acute estradiol action in the hippocampus

Neural Encoding of Sound: Context Dependency in Real-time Plasticity	Locally Adaptive Time Stepping in Numerical Simulations for Neuroscience

Basal Ganglia Contributions to Associative Learning: The Role of the Caudate Nucleus in Trace Eyeblink Conditioning	Deciphering the Intracellular Signaling Pathways of Gamma-Protocadherins in Neuronal Survival

Exploration of Medial Olivocochlear Influence on Otoacoustic Emissions in Humans	Contribution of Ca Currents to the Firing Patterns of Neurons in the Cerebellar Nuclei

Chemokine Regulation of Spinal Cord Development	Probabilistic Models of Interactions between Neurons

Exploring the physiological, genetic and molecular mechanisms regulating voluntary physical activity in mice	Circadian Disruption and Metabolism: A Role for Circadian Meal Timing in Body Weight Gain

Effects of Lexical Processing Deficits on Sentence Comprehension in Agrammatic Broca's Aphasia	Specificity and Fluidity of Neural Processing in Perceptual-Motor Skill Learning

Information Processing in Spinal Neurons	Integration and Autonomy in Axons

Cortical Neural Processing of Auditory Feedback during Vocal Production and Control	Realistic Modeling of Rod Bipolar and AII Amacrine Cells: Synaptic and Intrinsic Properties of Neurons Comprising a Retinal Microcircuit

Primary Motor Cortex Demonstrates Muscle Dynamics and Serves as a Robust Kinetic Input to Brain Machine Interfaces	Molecular and Cellular Alterations in the Indirect Pathway of the Basal Ganglia and Potential Therapeutic Approaches in Parkinson's Disease Rodent Models

Neural Representation of Musical Intervals in the Human Brainstem	Perceptual Learning on Auditory Spectral and Spectro-Temporal Modulation Tasks

Dynamics and Synchrony in the Primary Visual Cortex	Representation of Limb Movement in Somatosensory Cortex and its Application to a Bidirectional Brain-Machine Interface

A Zebrafish Notum Homologue Specifically Blocks the Wnt/beta-catenin Signaling Pathway	Hierarchical Connectivity and Connection-specific Dynamics in the Corticospinal-corticostriatal Microcircuit in Mouse Motor Cortex

The Mechanisms of Intuitive Judgments and Solution Knowledge Representations during Insight Problem Solving	Developmental Programming of Brain Regional Thyroid Status by the Deiodinase-III: Parent-of-Origin Genetic and Epigenetic Influences

Consolidation of Retrieved Memories: Retrieval Facilitates and Distorts Long-Term Memory	Functional Modulation and Synaptic Targeting of Kainate Receptors by Auxiliary Subunits and Interacting Proteins

Protein Degradation Pathways in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Lobe Dementia	Modeling of subthreshold voltage responses, synaptic integration and backpropagating action potentials in CA1 pyramidal neurons

Somatosensory Processing in Learning and Memory: An Examination of the Ventral Posteromedial Thalamus and Somatosensory Cortices	Functional Development of the Mouse Superior Colliculus

Optogenetically-Evoked Release of Acetylcholine: Activation of Nicotinic and Muscarinic Receptors Elicits Localized Desynchronization of Neocortex	Racial Disparities in the Subjective and Neurobiological Processing of Pain Perception and Experience

Neural Correlates of Auditory Function and Training in Older Adults	Development of Sonic hedgehog as an erectile dysfunction treatment

Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration in Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Neurons	The Role of microRNA-21 in the Astrocytic Response to Central Nervous System Injury and Differentiation

Morphological and Electrophysiological Investigation of Pyramidal Neurons of the Hippocampus: Countermodulation of Two Discrete Cell Types	Seizure Susceptibility and Defective Outgrowth of Mossy Fiber Axons in BACE1-Deficient Mice

Muscle-like Neurons for a Muscle-like Brain Machine Interface	Receptive Field Structures and Functional Properties in the Mouse Visual System

Mammalian Cortical Development as a Model System for the Study of Glioblastoma Multiforme	Electrophysiology and Its Application to Neurodegenerative Disease