NeuronPub Date : 2025-05-07DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.03.025
Colleen A McClung
{"title":"Breaking through anhedonia: How ketamine reignites the drive for rewards.","authors":"Colleen A McClung","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.03.025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2025.03.025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this issue of Neuron, Pignatelli et al.<sup>1</sup> find that ketamine reverses stress-induced changes in excitatory synapses in nucleus accumbens D1 dopamine receptor-expressing medium spiny neurons (D1-MSNs) and that these changes are necessary for the treatment of anhedonia-like behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":"113 9","pages":"1297-1299"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144036933","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}
NeuronPub Date : 2025-05-07DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.001
Chuying Zhou, Xiang Gao, Liming Tan
{"title":"Shaping sight: Novel thalamic plasticity channels dLGN feature preference during visual critical period.","authors":"Chuying Zhou, Xiang Gao, Liming Tan","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sonoda et al.<sup>1</sup> showed that dLGN neurons exhibit long-lasting shifts of tuning preference toward selective features experienced during the classical critical period. They demonstrated that this plasticity results from feedforward-input refinement, revealing a different form of experience-dependent plasticity compared to V1.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":"113 9","pages":"1294-1296"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144015208","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":"TMEM63B functions as a mammalian hyperosmolar sensor for thirst.","authors":"Wenjie Zou, Siqi Deng, Xingyu Chen, Jiamin Ruan, Huize Wang, Wuqiang Zhan, Jingxin Wang, Zhiyong Liu, Zhiqiang Yan","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Thirst drives animals to reinstate water homeostasis by fluid intake. An increase in blood osmolality is thought to induce thirst by activating a hyperosmolar sensor expressed in the subfornical organ (SFO), but the molecular identity of this sensor remains elusive. Here, we provide behavioral and functional evidence to show that TMEM63B functions as a mammalian hyperosmolar sensor for thirst in SFO neurons. First, we showed that TMEM63B is expressed in SFO excitatory neurons and required for the neuronal responses to hypertonic stimulation. More importantly, heterologously expressed TMEM63B is activated by hypertonic stimuli, and point mutations can alter the reversal potential of the channel. Additionally, purified TMEM63B in liposomes exhibits osmolarity-gated currents. Finally, Tmem63b knockout mice have profound deficits in thirst, and deleting TMEM63B within SFO neurons recapitulated this phenotype. Taken together, these results provide a molecular basis for thirst and suggest that TMEM63B is a mammalian hyperosmolar sensor for thirst.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":"1430-1445.e5"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143663765","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}
NeuronPub Date : 2025-05-07DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.007
Janani Parameswaran, Zachary T McEachin
{"title":"PI3P: Rising to the (DPR) challenge in C9-ALS/FTD.","authors":"Janani Parameswaran, Zachary T McEachin","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A hexanucleotide G<sub>4</sub>C<sub>2</sub> repeat expansion in C9orf72 causes accumulation of dipeptide repeat (DPR) proteins and is the leading genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). In a recent issue of Neuron, Zhang et al.<sup>1</sup> report that elevating PI3P levels mitigates endolysosomal deficits and DPR-associated neurotoxicity.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":"113 9","pages":"1301-1303"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144033495","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}
NeuronPub Date : 2025-05-07Epub Date: 2025-03-17DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.009
Anastasia Dimakou, Giovanni Pezzulo, Andrea Zangrossi, Maurizio Corbetta
{"title":"The predictive nature of spontaneous brain activity across scales and species.","authors":"Anastasia Dimakou, Giovanni Pezzulo, Andrea Zangrossi, Maurizio Corbetta","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emerging research suggests the brain operates as a \"prediction machine,\" continuously anticipating sensory, motor, and cognitive outcomes. Central to this capability is the brain's spontaneous activity-ongoing internal processes independent of external stimuli. Neuroimaging and computational studies support that this activity is integral to maintaining and refining mental models of our environment, body, and behaviors, akin to generative models in computation. During rest, spontaneous activity expands the variability of potential representations, enhancing the accuracy and adaptability of these models. When performing tasks, internal models direct brain regions to anticipate sensory and motor states, optimizing performance. This review synthesizes evidence from various species, from C. elegans to humans, highlighting three key aspects of spontaneous brain activity's role in prediction: the similarity between spontaneous and task-related activity, the encoding of behavioral and interoceptive priors, and the high metabolic cost of this activity, underscoring prediction as a fundamental function of brains across species.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":"1310-1332"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143658011","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}
NeuronPub Date : 2025-05-07DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.005
Bryan A Copits, Michele Curatolo, Patrick M Dougherty, Robert W Gereau, Wenqin Luo, Maryann Martone, Hakan Olausson, Theodore J Price, William Renthal, Clifford J Woolf, Guoyan Zhao
{"title":"Human pain neuroscience and the next generation of pain therapeutics.","authors":"Bryan A Copits, Michele Curatolo, Patrick M Dougherty, Robert W Gereau, Wenqin Luo, Maryann Martone, Hakan Olausson, Theodore J Price, William Renthal, Clifford J Woolf, Guoyan Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The recent approval of suzetrigine for acute pain treatment highlights both the success of targeting peripheral sensory neurons for pain management and the potential of developing new pain therapies primarily in human-based systems. To realize this transformative potential, further research into somatosensation and pain neuroimmunology in human systems is essential.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":"113 9","pages":"1304-1306"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144022039","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}
NeuronPub Date : 2025-05-07DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.03.033
Murillo Duarte-Silva, Meenakshi Rao
{"title":"A gut-wrenching tale of neuronal distress.","authors":"Murillo Duarte-Silva, Meenakshi Rao","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.03.033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2025.03.033","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Neurons innervating the gut are on the frontlines of host-microbe interactions and thus exposed to a myriad of inflammatory and infectious insults. In this issue of Neuron, Forster, Jakob et al.<sup>1</sup> reveal that diverse populations of gut-innervating neurons exhibit conserved responses to inflammation, linking interferon signaling to ferroptosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":"113 9","pages":"1291-1293"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143972590","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}
NeuronPub Date : 2025-05-07Epub Date: 2025-03-19DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.017
Zonghua Li, Yuka A Martens, Yingxue Ren, Yunjung Jin, Hiroaki Sekiya, Sydney V Doss, Naomi Kouri, Monica Castanedes-Casey, Trace A Christensen, Lindsay B Miller Nevalainen, Nanaka Takegami, Kai Chen, Chia-Chen Liu, Alexandra Soto-Beasley, Baayla D C Boon, Sydney A Labuzan, Tadafumi C Ikezu, Yixing Chen, Alexander D Bartkowiak, Gisela Xhafkollari, Allison M Wetmore, David A Bennett, Ross R Reichard, Ronald C Petersen, Takahisa Kanekiyo, Owen A Ross, Melissa E Murray, Dennis W Dickson, Guojun Bu, Na Zhao
{"title":"APOE genotype determines cell-type-specific pathological landscape of Alzheimer's disease.","authors":"Zonghua Li, Yuka A Martens, Yingxue Ren, Yunjung Jin, Hiroaki Sekiya, Sydney V Doss, Naomi Kouri, Monica Castanedes-Casey, Trace A Christensen, Lindsay B Miller Nevalainen, Nanaka Takegami, Kai Chen, Chia-Chen Liu, Alexandra Soto-Beasley, Baayla D C Boon, Sydney A Labuzan, Tadafumi C Ikezu, Yixing Chen, Alexander D Bartkowiak, Gisela Xhafkollari, Allison M Wetmore, David A Bennett, Ross R Reichard, Ronald C Petersen, Takahisa Kanekiyo, Owen A Ross, Melissa E Murray, Dennis W Dickson, Guojun Bu, Na Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is the strongest genetic risk modifier for Alzheimer's disease (AD), with the APOE4 allele increasing risk and APOE2 decreasing it compared with the common APOE3 allele. Using single-nucleus RNA sequencing of the temporal cortex from APOE2 carriers, APOE3 homozygotes, and APOE4 carriers, we found that AD-associated transcriptomic changes were highly APOE genotype dependent. Comparing AD with controls, APOE2 carriers showed upregulated synaptic and myelination-related pathways, preserving synapses and myelination at the protein level. Conversely, these pathways were downregulated in APOE3 homozygotes, resulting in reduced synaptic and myelination proteins. In APOE4 carriers, excitatory neurons displayed reduced synaptic pathways similar to APOE3, but oligodendrocytes showed upregulated myelination pathways like APOE2. However, their synaptic and myelination protein levels remained unchanged or increased. APOE4 carriers also showed increased pro-inflammatory signatures in microglia but reduced responses to amyloid-β pathology. These findings reveal APOE genotype-specific molecular alterations in AD across cell types.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":"1380-1397.e7"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143669806","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}
NeuronPub Date : 2025-05-07Epub Date: 2025-03-24DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.025
Lars Bollmann, Peter Baracskay, Federico Stella, Jozsef Csicsvari
{"title":"Sleep stages antagonistically modulate reactivation drift.","authors":"Lars Bollmann, Peter Baracskay, Federico Stella, Jozsef Csicsvari","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.025","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hippocampal reactivation of waking neuronal assemblies in sleep is a key initial step of systems consolidation. Nevertheless, it is unclear whether reactivated assemblies are static or whether they reorganize gradually over prolonged sleep. We tracked reactivated CA1 assembly patterns over ∼20 h of sleep/rest periods and related them to assemblies seen before or after in a spatial learning paradigm using rats. We found that reactivated assembly patterns were gradually transformed and started to resemble those seen in the subsequent recall session. Periods of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and non-REM (NREM) had antagonistic roles: whereas NREM accelerated the assembly drift, REM countered it. Moreover, only a subset of rate-changing pyramidal cells contributed to the drift, whereas stable-firing-rate cells maintained unaltered reactivation patterns. Our data suggest that prolonged sleep promotes the spontaneous reorganization of spatial assemblies, which can contribute to daily cognitive map changes or encoding new learning situations.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":"1446-1459.e6"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143710908","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}
NeuronPub Date : 2025-05-07Epub Date: 2025-03-14DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.014
Muhammad Ali, Jigyasha Timsina, Daniel Western, Menghan Liu, Aleksandra Beric, John Budde, Anh Do, Gyujin Heo, Lihua Wang, Jen Gentsch, Suzanne E Schindler, John C Morris, David M Holtzman, Agustin Ruiz, Ignacio Alvarez, Miquel Aguilar, Pau Pastor, Jarod Rutledge, Hamilton Oh, Edward N Wilson, Yann Le Guen, Rana R Khalid, Chloe Robins, David J Pulford, Rawan Tarawneh, Laura Ibanez, Tony Wyss-Coray, Yun Ju Sung, Carlos Cruchaga
{"title":"Multi-cohort cerebrospinal fluid proteomics identifies robust molecular signatures across the Alzheimer disease continuum.","authors":"Muhammad Ali, Jigyasha Timsina, Daniel Western, Menghan Liu, Aleksandra Beric, John Budde, Anh Do, Gyujin Heo, Lihua Wang, Jen Gentsch, Suzanne E Schindler, John C Morris, David M Holtzman, Agustin Ruiz, Ignacio Alvarez, Miquel Aguilar, Pau Pastor, Jarod Rutledge, Hamilton Oh, Edward N Wilson, Yann Le Guen, Rana R Khalid, Chloe Robins, David J Pulford, Rawan Tarawneh, Laura Ibanez, Tony Wyss-Coray, Yun Ju Sung, Carlos Cruchaga","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.02.014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Changes in β-amyloid (Aβ) and hyperphosphorylated tau (T) in brain and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) precede Alzheimer's disease (AD) symptoms, making the CSF proteome a potential avenue to understand disease pathophysiology and facilitate reliable diagnostics and therapies. Using the AT framework and a three-stage study design (discovery, replication, and meta-analysis), we identified 2,173 analytes (2,029 unique proteins) dysregulated in AD. Of these, 865 (43%) were previously reported, and 1,164 (57%) are novel. The identified proteins cluster in four different pseudo-trajectories groups spanning the AD continuum and were enriched in pathways including neuronal death, apoptosis, and tau phosphorylation (early stages), microglia dysregulation and endolysosomal dysfunction (mid stages), brain plasticity and longevity (mid stages), and microglia-neuron crosstalk (late stages). Using machine learning, we created and validated highly accurate and replicable (area under the curve [AUC] > 0.90) models that predict AD biomarker positivity and clinical status. These models can also identify people that will convert to AD.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":"1363-1379.e9"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12067247/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143634189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}