#JNeurosci: How do birds decipher information from their songs? Ahmadi et al. found that neurons in the primary auditory forebrain of birds synchronously respond to salient sounds from birdsong to comprehend messages from this form of communication.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2108-25.2026

#JNeurosci highlight of the week: How does experience tuning into sound shape hearing ability?
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#JNeurosci: Findings from Vanneau et al. suggest that some brain responses commonly interpreted as changes in specific rhythms may instead reflect changes in irregular activity. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1194-26.2026

This Week in the Journal #JNeurosci | Comparing Brain Network Organization in Parent-Child Pairs; How Does the Neural Grid Code Influence Behavioral Flexibility?
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/46/41/etwij46412026

#JNeurosci: Using a rat model of neuropathic pain, Doshen et al. mapped how brain changes from chronic neuropathic pain emerge.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0712-26.2026

#JNeurosci: Findings from Joo et al. broaden the mechanistic framework for anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis and point to intracellular signaling pathways as potential targets for future therapeutic investigation.

https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0708-25.2026

New in #JNeurosci: Musicians and people with early blindness show a similar change in their brain that improves their ability to discriminate between pitches in sound.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0510-26.2026

#JNeurosci: In a rat model of chronic pain, Ball et al. found that activating the CGIC–SI pathway increases touch sensitivity and dorsal horn excitability, whereas inhibiting the pathway reverses neuropathic pain.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1306-25.2025

Do you remember your first #JNeurosci paper?
Linda Overstreet-Wadiche recalls her first paper published in the journal about synaptic plasticity and motor behavior and its long-lasting impact in the field.

#JNeurosci: Findings from Paez-Beltran et al. provide a new framework for understanding how transcription factor dynamics shape glial development and diversity in the brain and how their dysregulation may contribute to brain tumor development.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0240-26.2026

#JNeurosci: Results from Yamada et al. suggest that the reduction of excitatory neurometabolites, rather than the recruitment of GABAergic inhibition, is closely linked to a smooth transition into sleep.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0372-26.2026

#JNeurosci highlight of the week: Resource scarcity influences maternal brain activity and caregiving in rats
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This Week in The Journal #JNeurosci | How Inhibitory Medulla Neurons Regulate Breathing; How Astrocytic Tau Pathology Leads to Parkinsonism
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/46/40/etwij46402026

In this 2006 #JNeurosci Symposium, Deisseroth & colleagues explored advances in #optogenetic technology. The authors presented their Symposium at the SfN annual meeting that year. www.jneurosci.org/content/26/4...

Excited to share the lab's first fiber photometry paper, out now in #JNeurosci 🎉😃🐀🧠💫

This one feels particularly special: it marks a new experimental direction for the lab and reflects so much hard work, troubleshooting, learning, and persistence from an incredible team 🔬✨ More to come!

Does resource scarcity blunt the maternal brain’s reward system? Not exactly. New in #JNeurosci: Rat mothers with reduced nesting materials show altered VTA dopamine neuron activity around insensitive caregiving and pup separation, but not food reward.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0997-26.2026

#JNeurosci highlight of the week: Exploring how brain aging influences language issues after stroke.
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#JNeurosci: Findings in rats from Wang et al. challenge traditional views of hippocampal function by suggesting that its role in decision making is not limited to flexible, outcome-sensitive choices, but can also extend to outcome-insensitive behavior.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0389-26.2026

#JNeurosci: Using EEG recordings in humans, Tomassini et al. show that different neural rhythms are used to balance speed and accuracy, helping explain how the brain flexibly controls goal-directed behavior.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0765-25.2025

#JNeurosci: Giancani et al. proposed a new hypothesis that attributes a specific role to intracortical travelling waves and tested its behavioral consequences exploiting the known retinotopic architecture of the visual cortex.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1953-25.2026