{"title":"Astrocytes make room for microglia","authors":"Rebecca Wright","doi":"10.1038/s41593-025-02082-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41593-025-02082-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19076,"journal":{"name":"Nature neuroscience","volume":"28 10","pages":"2008-2008"},"PeriodicalIF":20.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145230895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brain-wide activity across labs","authors":"Luis A. Mejia","doi":"10.1038/s41593-025-02084-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41593-025-02084-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19076,"journal":{"name":"Nature neuroscience","volume":"28 10","pages":"2008-2008"},"PeriodicalIF":20.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145230870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poised for action","authors":"William P. Olson","doi":"10.1038/s41593-025-02083-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41593-025-02083-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19076,"journal":{"name":"Nature neuroscience","volume":"28 10","pages":"2008-2008"},"PeriodicalIF":20.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145230892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Muscle-derived miR-126 regulates TDP-43 axonal local synthesis and NMJ integrity in ALS models.","authors":"Ariel Ionescu,Lior Ankol,Anand Ganapathy Subramaniam,Topaz Altman,Iddo Magen,Yahel Cohen,Yehuda Danino,Tal Gradus-Pery,Yoav Niv,Ori Bar Avi,Danielle Geller,Amjd Ibraheem,Ruilei Cheng,Noam Steinberg,Leenor Alfahel,Pauline Duc,Zeynep Ergul-Ulger,Doruk Arslan,Ersin Tan,Florence Rage,Nilo Riva,Angello Quattrini,Can Ebru Bekircan-Kurt,Adrian Israelson,Amir Dori,Eran Hornstein,Eran Perlson","doi":"10.1038/s41593-025-02062-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-02062-6","url":null,"abstract":"Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is characterized by neuromuscular junction (NMJ) disruption and neurodegeneration. Recent findings highlight a pivotal role for TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) in forming axonal pathological condensates and facilitating NMJ disruption through inhibition of local protein synthesis. However, the mechanisms that drive local TDP-43 accumulation remain unknown. Here we identify that the TDP-43 axonal accumulation in peripheral nerves of SOD1 patients and mice stems from its aberrant local synthesis. This is a non-cell-autonomous process driven by muscle-derived miR-126a-5p extracellular vesicles (EVs). Inhibiting muscle secretion of miR-126a-5p prompts presynaptic TDP-43 synthesis and accumulation, which disrupts axonal translation and causes NMJ degeneration. Introducing miR-126 to SOD1G93A mice, primary co-cultures and human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived co-cultures with ALS mutations exhibits neuroprotective effects and delays motor decline. These findings identify a transcellular communication axis between muscles and motor neurons that regulates axonal local synthesis and NMJ maintenance, offering insights into ALS onset and progression.","PeriodicalId":19076,"journal":{"name":"Nature neuroscience","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":25.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145215801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abhishek Dubey,Erika Yamashita,Biljana Stangeland,Imane Abbas,David Fooksman,Robert A Harris,Gregory M Palmer,Wade R Koba,Jinghang Zhang,Benjamin T Himes,Olivia R Lu,Winson S Ho,Raoul V Kuiper,Derek Huffman,Zhiping Wu,Yutaka Uchida,Masaru Ishii,Rachel L Welch,Alexander F Fiedler,David Reynolds,S A Mohieb Hosainey,Kostantin Dobrenis,Qinge Ye,Kevin Fisher,Nathaniel Killian,E Richard Stanley,Emad Eskandar,Jinan Behnan
{"title":"Brain tumors induce widespread disruption of calvarial bone and alteration of skull marrow immune landscape.","authors":"Abhishek Dubey,Erika Yamashita,Biljana Stangeland,Imane Abbas,David Fooksman,Robert A Harris,Gregory M Palmer,Wade R Koba,Jinghang Zhang,Benjamin T Himes,Olivia R Lu,Winson S Ho,Raoul V Kuiper,Derek Huffman,Zhiping Wu,Yutaka Uchida,Masaru Ishii,Rachel L Welch,Alexander F Fiedler,David Reynolds,S A Mohieb Hosainey,Kostantin Dobrenis,Qinge Ye,Kevin Fisher,Nathaniel Killian,E Richard Stanley,Emad Eskandar,Jinan Behnan","doi":"10.1038/s41593-025-02064-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-02064-4","url":null,"abstract":"The skull marrow niche has recently been identified as a reservoir that supplies the brain with monocytes and neutrophils in the context of disease and injury, but its role in brain cancers remains unknown. Here we show that glioblastoma, the most malignant type of brain tumor, induces calvarial bone abnormalities in murine models and patients with glioblastoma, altering osteoclast activities and increasing the number of skull channels in mice. Single-cell RNA sequencing revealed glioblastoma-mediated alterations in the immune landscape of skull marrow and femoral bone marrow, including expansion of neutrophils and deterioration of various B cell subsets. In vivo inhibition of bone resorption reduced bone abnormalities, but promoted tumor progression in mesenchymal subtype tumors. This also abolished the survival benefit of the checkpoint inhibitor anti-PD-L1, by reducing activated T cell and increasing inflammatory neutrophil numbers. Together, these data provide insight into how brain tumors affect skull bone and the immune environment.","PeriodicalId":19076,"journal":{"name":"Nature neuroscience","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":25.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145215799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Single-dose psilocybin rapidly and sustainably relieves allodynia and anxiodepressive-like behaviors in mouse models of chronic pain.","authors":"Ahmad Hammo,Stephen Wisser,Joseph Cichon","doi":"10.1038/s41593-025-02068-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-02068-0","url":null,"abstract":"Chronic pain and mood disorders co-occur, exacerbate one another and share neurobiological mechanisms, but whether a single intervention could promptly alleviate both conditions remains unclear. Here, in two chronic pain models, we show that a single dose of psilocybin induces a rapid and sustained reversal of both mechanical allodynia and anxiodepression-like states in adult male and female mice. Using local psilocin injections, the key active metabolite of psilocybin, we show that the engagement of prefrontal cortical circuits is critical for the concurrent alleviation of both conditions. Two-photon calcium imaging reveals that psilocin rapidly normalizes chronic pain-associated hyperactivity in anterior cingulate cortex layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons. Pharmacologic manipulations with full agonists of 5-HT2A and 5-HT1A receptors replicated some, but not all, of psilocin's cellular and behavioral effects, suggesting that psilocin's actions arise from partial agonism at these receptors within shared circuits governing pain and mood processing.","PeriodicalId":19076,"journal":{"name":"Nature neuroscience","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":25.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145209303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fanny Cazettes, Davide Reato, Elisabete Augusto, Raphael Steinfeld, Alfonso Renart, Zachary F Mainen
{"title":"Facial expressions in mice reveal latent cognitive variables and their neural correlates.","authors":"Fanny Cazettes, Davide Reato, Elisabete Augusto, Raphael Steinfeld, Alfonso Renart, Zachary F Mainen","doi":"10.1038/s41593-025-02071-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-02071-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Brain activity controls adaptive behavior but also drives unintentional incidental movements. Such movements could potentially be used to read out internal cognitive variables that are also neurally computed. Establishing this would require ruling out that incidental movements reflect cognition merely because they are coupled with task-related responses through the biomechanics of the body. Here we addressed this issue in a foraging task for mice, where multiple decision variables are simultaneously encoded even if, at any given time, only one of them is used. We found that characteristic features of the face simultaneously encode not only the currently used decision variables but also independent and unexpressed ones, and we show that these features partially originate from neural activity in the secondary motor cortex. Our results suggest that facial movements reflect ongoing computations above and beyond those related to task demands and demonstrate the ability of noninvasive monitoring to expose otherwise latent cognitive states.</p>","PeriodicalId":19076,"journal":{"name":"Nature neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":20.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145200418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicole Edwards,Lauren W Yowelunh McLester-Davis,Cassie Kline,Alex Brown,Nadine R Caron,Louise C Parr-Brownlie
{"title":"Towards the implementation of Indigenous data governance in neurogenomics research.","authors":"Nicole Edwards,Lauren W Yowelunh McLester-Davis,Cassie Kline,Alex Brown,Nadine R Caron,Louise C Parr-Brownlie","doi":"10.1038/s41593-025-02070-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-02070-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19076,"journal":{"name":"Nature neuroscience","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":25.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145189386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carina Heller,Daniel Güllmar,Lejla Colic,Laura Pritschet,Martin Gell,Nooshin Javaheripour,Feliberto de la Cruz,Philine Rojczyk,Carina J Koeppel,Bart Larsen,Habib Ganjgahi,Frederik J Lange,Ann-Christine Buck,Tim L Jesgarzewsky,Robert Dahnke,Michael Kiehntopf,Emily G Jacobs,Zora Kikinis,Martin Walter,Ilona Croy,Christian Gaser
{"title":"Hormonal milieu influences whole-brain structural dynamics across the menstrual cycle using dense sampling in multiple individuals.","authors":"Carina Heller,Daniel Güllmar,Lejla Colic,Laura Pritschet,Martin Gell,Nooshin Javaheripour,Feliberto de la Cruz,Philine Rojczyk,Carina J Koeppel,Bart Larsen,Habib Ganjgahi,Frederik J Lange,Ann-Christine Buck,Tim L Jesgarzewsky,Robert Dahnke,Michael Kiehntopf,Emily G Jacobs,Zora Kikinis,Martin Walter,Ilona Croy,Christian Gaser","doi":"10.1038/s41593-025-02066-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-02066-2","url":null,"abstract":"Gonadal hormone receptors are widely distributed across the brain, yet their influence on brain structure remains understudied. Here, using precision imaging, we examined four females, including one with endometriosis and one using oral contraceptives (OC), across a monthly period. Whole-brain analyses revealed spatiotemporal patterns of brain volume changes, with substantial variations across the monthly period. In typical cycles, spatiotemporal patterns were associated with serum progesterone levels, while in cycles with endometriosis and during OC intake, patterns were associated with serum estradiol levels. The volume changes were widely distributed rather than region-specific, suggesting a widespread but coordinated influence of hormonal fluctuations. These findings underscore the importance of considering diverse hormonal milieus beyond typical menstrual cycles in understanding structural brain dynamics and suggest that hormonal rhythms may drive widespread structural brain changes.","PeriodicalId":19076,"journal":{"name":"Nature neuroscience","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":25.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145153419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A bottom-up septal inhibitory circuit mediates anticipatory control of drinking.","authors":"Lingyu Xu,Yuhao Sun,Chenyuan Huang,Yanrong Zheng,Jialu Chen,Xiaolong Ma,Qiujie Shi,Mengting Liu,Xiaoyun Qiu,Qikun Zhao,Chenshu Gao,Jie Liao,Yi Wang,Zhong Chen","doi":"10.1038/s41593-025-02056-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-02056-4","url":null,"abstract":"Drinking behavior is not only homeostatically regulated but also rapidly adjusted before any changes in blood osmolality occur, known as anticipatory thirst satiation. Homeostatic and anticipatory signals converge in the subfornical organ (SFO); however, the neural pathways conveying peripheral information to the SFO before changes in blood composition are incompletely understood. Here we reveal an inhibitory pathway from the medial septum (MS) to the SFO that is involved in the control of anticipatory drinking behavior in mice. MS γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)ergic neurons encode water-satiation signals by integrating cues from the oral cavity and tracking gastrointestinal signals. These neurons receive inputs from the parabrachial nucleus and relay to SFOCaMKII neurons, forming a bottom-up pathway with activity that prevents overhydration. Disruption of this circuit leads to excessive water intake and hyponatremia. Our findings reveal a septal pathway that integrates multiple layers of presystemic signals to fine-tune drinking behavior.","PeriodicalId":19076,"journal":{"name":"Nature neuroscience","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":25.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145117061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}