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14 January 2009; 29 (2)

This Week in The Journal

Journal Club

  • Perception of Facial Expression in Somatosensory Cortex Supports Simulationist Models

    • Elizabeth Hussey and
    • Ashley Safford
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):301-302; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5205-08.2009

Brief Communications

  • The CREB/CREM Transcription Factors Negatively Regulate Early Synaptogenesis and Spontaneous Network Activity

    • Fernando Aguado,
    • Carmen Díaz-Ruiz,
    • Rosanna Parlato,
    • Albert Martínez,
    • Maria A. Carmona,
    • Susanne Bleckmann,
    • Jesús M. Ureña,
    • Ferran Burgaya,
    • Jose A. del Río,
    • Günther Schütz,
    • and Eduardo Soriano
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):328-333; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5252-08.2009

  • A Generalized Mechanism for Perception of Pitch Patterns

    • Psyche Loui,
    • Elaine H. Wu,
    • David L. Wessel,
    • and Robert T. Knight
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):454-459; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4503-08.2009

  • Functional and Morphological Differences among Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells

    • Tiffany M. Schmidt and
    • Paulo Kofuji
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):476-482; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4117-08.2009

Articles

Cellular/Molecular

  • Agonist Occupancy Is Essential for Forward Trafficking of AMPA Receptors

    • Sarah K. Coleman,
    • Tommi Möykkynen,
    • Annukka Jouppila,
    • Susanna Koskelainen,
    • Claudio Rivera,
    • Esa R Korpi,
    • and Kari Keinänen
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):303-312; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3953-08.2009

  • Exchange and Redistribution Dynamics of the Cytoskeleton of the Active Zone Molecule Bassoon

    • Shlomo Tsuriel,
    • Arava Fisher,
    • Nina Wittenmayer,
    • Thomas Dresbach,
    • Craig C. Garner,
    • and Noam E. Ziv
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):351-358; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4777-08.2009

  • Saturated Fatty Acids Produce an Inflammatory Response Predominantly through the Activation of TLR4 Signaling in Hypothalamus: Implications for the Pathogenesis of Obesity

    • Marciane Milanski,
    • Giovanna Degasperi,
    • Andressa Coope,
    • Joseane Morari,
    • Raphael Denis,
    • Dennys E. Cintra,
    • Daniela M. L. Tsukumo,
    • Gabriel Anhe,
    • Maria E. Amaral,
    • Hilton K. Takahashi,
    • Rui Curi,
    • Helena C. Oliveira,
    • José B. C. Carvalheira,
    • Silvana Bordin,
    • Mário J. Saad,
    • and Lício A. Velloso
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):359-370; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2760-08.2009

  • Glutamatergic Modulation of Cerebellar Interneuron Activity Is Mediated by an Enhancement of GABA Release and Requires Protein Kinase A/RIM1α Signaling

    • Philippe M. Lachamp,
    • Yu Liu,
    • and Siqiong June Liu
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):381-392; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2354-08.2009

  • Glucocorticoids Regulate Glutamate and GABA Synapse-Specific Retrograde Transmission via Divergent Nongenomic Signaling Pathways

    • Shi Di,
    • Marc M. Maxson,
    • Alier Franco,
    • and Jeffrey G. Tasker
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):393-401; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4546-08.2009
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  • Ribosomal S6 Kinase Cooperates with Casein Kinase 2 to Modulate the Drosophila Circadian Molecular Oscillator

    • Bikem Akten,
    • Michelle M. Tangredi,
    • Eike Jauch,
    • Mary A. Roberts,
    • Fanny Ng,
    • Thomas Raabe,
    • and F. Rob Jackson
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):466-475; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4034-08.2009

  • Coupling of Energy Metabolism and Synaptic Transmission at the Transcriptional Level: Role of Nuclear Respiratory Factor 1 in Regulating both Cytochrome c Oxidase and NMDA Glutamate Receptor Subunit Genes

    • Shilpa S. Dhar and
    • Margaret T. T. Wong-Riley
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):483-492; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3704-08.2009

  • Dopamine D4 Receptors Regulate AMPA Receptor Trafficking and Glutamatergic Transmission in GABAergic Interneurons of Prefrontal Cortex

    • Eunice Y. Yuen and
    • Zhen Yan
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):550-562; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5050-08.2009

  • Subunit-Dependent Postsynaptic Expression of Kainate Receptors on Hippocampal Interneurons in Area CA1

    • Joyce Wondolowski and
    • Matthew Frerking
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):563-574; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4788-08.2009

Development/Plasticity/Repair

  • Unc-51 Controls Active Zone Density and Protein Composition by Downregulating ERK Signaling

    • Yogesh P. Wairkar,
    • Hirofumi Toda,
    • Hiroaki Mochizuki,
    • Katsuo Furukubo-Tokunaga,
    • Toshifumi Tomoda,
    • and Aaron DiAntonio
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):517-528; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3848-08.2009

  • Complementary Actions of BDNF and Neurotrophin-3 on the Firing Patterns and Synaptic Composition of Motoneurons

    • María A. Davis-López de Carrizosa,
    • Camilo J. Morado-Díaz,
    • Juan J. Tena,
    • Beatriz Benítez-Temiño,
    • María L. Pecero,
    • Sara R. Morcuende,
    • Rosa R. de la Cruz,
    • and Angel M. Pastor
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):575-587; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5312-08.2009

Behavioral/Systems/Cognitive

  • A Spike-Timing Code for Discriminating Conspecific Vocalizations in the Thalamocortical System of Anesthetized and Awake Guinea Pigs

    • Chloé Huetz,
    • Bénédicte Philibert,
    • and Jean-Marc Edeline
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):334-350; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3269-08.2009

  • Brain Region-Specific Gene Expression Activation Required for Reconsolidation and Extinction of Contextual Fear Memory

    • Nori Mamiya,
    • Hotaka Fukushima,
    • Akinobu Suzuki,
    • Zensai Matsuyama,
    • Seiichi Homma,
    • Paul W. Frankland,
    • and Satoshi Kida
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):402-413; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4639-08.2009

  • ben Functions with Scamp during Synaptic Transmission and Long-Term Memory Formation in Drosophila

    • Hong Zhao,
    • Xingguo Zheng,
    • Xiaojing Yuan,
    • Lei Wang,
    • Xin Wang,
    • Yi Zhong,
    • Zuoping Xie,
    • and Tim Tully
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):414-424; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5036-07.2009

  • Nonlinear Phase–Phase Cross-Frequency Coupling Mediates Communication between Distant Sites in Human Neocortex

    • Felix Darvas,
    • Kai J. Miller,
    • Rajesh P. N. Rao,
    • and Jeffrey G. Ojemann
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):426-435; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3688-08.2009

  • Differential Effect of Reward and Punishment on Procedural Learning

    • Tobias Wächter,
    • Ovidiu V. Lungu,
    • Tao Liu,
    • Daniel T. Willingham,
    • and James Ashe
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):436-443; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4132-08.2009

  • Single Nigrostriatal Dopaminergic Neurons Form Widely Spread and Highly Dense Axonal Arborizations in the Neostriatum

    • Wakoto Matsuda,
    • Takahiro Furuta,
    • Kouichi C. Nakamura,
    • Hiroyuki Hioki,
    • Fumino Fujiyama,
    • Ryohachi Arai,
    • and Takeshi Kaneko
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):444-453; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4029-08.2009

  • Border Ownership Selectivity in Human Early Visual Cortex and its Modulation by Attention

    • Fang Fang,
    • Huseyin Boyaci,
    • and Daniel Kersten
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):460-465; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4628-08.2009

  • Head Direction Cell Instability in the Anterior Dorsal Thalamus after Lesions of the Interpeduncular Nucleus

    • Benjamin J. Clark,
    • Asha Sarma,
    • and Jeffrey S. Taube
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):493-507; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2811-08.2009

  • Multivoxel Pattern Analysis Reveals Increased Memory Targeting and Reduced Use of Retrieved Details during Single-Agenda Source Monitoring

    • Susan G. R. McDuff,
    • Hillary C. Frankel,
    • and Kenneth A. Norman
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):508-516; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3587-08.2009

  • α4-Containing GABAA Receptors in the Nucleus Accumbens Mediate Moderate Intake of Alcohol

    • Mridula Rewal,
    • Rachel Jurd,
    • T. Michael Gill,
    • Dao-Yao He,
    • Dorit Ron,
    • and Patricia H. Janak
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):543-549; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3199-08.2009

Neurobiology of Disease

  • Abnormal Network Activity in a Targeted Genetic Model of Human Double Cortex

    • James B. Ackman,
    • Laurent Aniksztejn,
    • Valérie Crépel,
    • Hélène Becq,
    • Christophe Pellegrino,
    • Carlos Cardoso,
    • Yehezkel Ben-Ari,
    • and Alfonso Represa
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):313-327; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4093-08.2009

  • A Cav3.2 T-Type Calcium Channel Point Mutation Has Splice-Variant-Specific Effects on Function and Segregates with Seizure Expression in a Polygenic Rat Model of Absence Epilepsy

    • Kim L. Powell,
    • Stuart M. Cain,
    • Caroline Ng,
    • Shreerang Sirdesai,
    • Laurence S. David,
    • Mervyn Kyi,
    • Esperanza Garcia,
    • John R. Tyson,
    • Christopher A. Reid,
    • Melanie Bahlo,
    • Simon J. Foote,
    • Terrance P. Snutch,
    • and Terence J. O'Brien
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):371-380; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5295-08.2009

  • The Polycomb Group Gene Bmi1 Regulates Antioxidant Defenses in Neurons by Repressing p53 Pro-Oxidant Activity

    • Wassim Chatoo,
    • Mohamed Abdouh,
    • Jocelyn David,
    • Marie-Pier Champagne,
    • José Ferreira,
    • Francis Rodier,
    • and Gilbert Bernier
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 14 January 2009, 29(2):529-542; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5303-08.2009
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14 January 2009; 29 (2)

In This Issue

    1. This Week in The Journal
    2. Journal Club
    3. Brief Communications
    4. Articles
      1. Cellular/Molecular
      2. Development/Plasticity/Repair
      3. Behavioral/Systems/Cognitive
      4. Neurobiology of Disease
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