NeuronPub Date : 2025-05-17DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.028
Xiao Yu, Mathieu Nollet, Nicholas P Franks, William Wisden
{"title":"Sleep and the recovery from stress.","authors":"Xiao Yu, Mathieu Nollet, Nicholas P Franks, William Wisden","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.028","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The relationship between stress and sleep is multifaceted, with stress capable of both disrupting and promoting sleep depending on the nature, intensity, and duration of the stressor. While stress commonly leads to sleep fragmentation and arousal in both humans and animals, certain selective stressors, such as immune challenges and psychosocial stress, promote sleep in rodent models. Specific neural circuits, such as those involving the ventral tegmental area and lateral habenula, mediate this stress-induced sleep. Post-stress sleep may facilitate recovery, reduce anxiety, and enhance stress resilience, but the extent to which sleep versus wakefulness post-stress aids long-term adaptation is unclear. Both human and animal studies highlight a bidirectional relationship, where stress-induced changes in sleep architecture may have adaptive or maladaptive consequences. Here, we propose that post-stress sleep contributes to resilience and discuss potential mechanisms underlying this process. A deeper understanding of these pathways may provide new strategies for enhancing stress recovery and improving mental health outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144132595","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 : 2025-05-14DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.025
Yu Gao, Qiping Dong, Kalpana Hanthanan Arachchilage, Ryan D Risgaard, Moosa Syed, Jie Sheng, Danielle K Schmidt, Ting Jin, Shuang Liu, Soraya O Sandoval, Sara Knaack, Magnus T Eckholm, Rachel J Chen, Yu Guo, Dan Doherty, Ian Glass, Jon E Levine, Daifeng Wang, Qiang Chang, Xinyu Zhao, Andre M M Sousa
{"title":"Multimodal analyses reveal genes driving electrophysiological maturation of neurons in the primate prefrontal cortex.","authors":"Yu Gao, Qiping Dong, Kalpana Hanthanan Arachchilage, Ryan D Risgaard, Moosa Syed, Jie Sheng, Danielle K Schmidt, Ting Jin, Shuang Liu, Soraya O Sandoval, Sara Knaack, Magnus T Eckholm, Rachel J Chen, Yu Guo, Dan Doherty, Ian Glass, Jon E Levine, Daifeng Wang, Qiang Chang, Xinyu Zhao, Andre M M Sousa","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.025","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is critical for myriad high-cognitive functions and is associated with several neuropsychiatric disorders. Here, using Patch-seq and single-nucleus multiomic analyses, we identified genes and regulatory networks governing the maturation of distinct neuronal populations in the PFC of rhesus macaque. We discovered that specific electrophysiological properties exhibited distinct maturational kinetics and identified key genes underlying these properties. We unveiled that RAPGEF4 is important for the maturation of resting membrane potential and inward sodium current in both macaque and human. We demonstrated that knockdown of CHD8, a high-confidence autism risk gene, in human and macaque organotypic slices led to impaired maturation, via downregulation of key genes, including RAPGEF4. Restoring the expression of RAPGEF4 rescued the proper electrophysiological maturation of CHD8-deficient neurons. Our study revealed regulators of neuronal maturation during a critical period of PFC development in primates and implicated such regulators in molecular processes underlying autism.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144120323","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 : 2025-05-14DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.024
Rhiana C Simon, Weston T Fleming, Brandy A Briones, Marta Trzeciak, Pranav Senthilkumar, Kentaro K Ishii, Madelyn M Hjort, Madison M Martin, Koichi Hashikawa, Andrea D Sanders, Sam A Golden, Garret D Stuber
{"title":"Opioid-driven disruption of the septum reveals a role for neurotensin-expressing neurons in withdrawal.","authors":"Rhiana C Simon, Weston T Fleming, Brandy A Briones, Marta Trzeciak, Pranav Senthilkumar, Kentaro K Ishii, Madelyn M Hjort, Madison M Martin, Koichi Hashikawa, Andrea D Sanders, Sam A Golden, Garret D Stuber","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.024","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Opioid withdrawal is an intensively aversive experience and often drives relapse. The lateral septum (LS) is a forebrain structure that is important in aversion processing and has been linked to substance use disorders, but which LS cell types contribute to the maladaptive state of withdrawal is unknown. We used single-nucleus RNA sequencing to interrogate cell-type-specific gene expression changes induced by chronic morphine exposure and discovered that morphine globally disrupts LS cell types, but neurotensin-expressing neurons (LS-Nts) are selectively activated by naloxone. Using two-photon calcium imaging and ex vivo electrophysiology, we next demonstrate that LS-Nts neurons receive elevated glutamatergic drive in morphine-dependent mice and remain hyperactivated during withdrawal. Finally, we show that manipulating LS-Nts neurons during opioid withdrawal regulates pain coping and sociability. Together, these results suggest that LS-Nts neurons are a key neural substrate involved in opioid withdrawal and establish the LS as a crucial regulator of adaptive behaviors.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144086630","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 : 2025-05-14DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.020
Sara I Graves, Charlton F Meyer, Karthik B Jeganathan, Darren J Baker
{"title":"p16-expressing microglia and endothelial cells promote tauopathy and neurovascular abnormalities in PS19 mice.","authors":"Sara I Graves, Charlton F Meyer, Karthik B Jeganathan, Darren J Baker","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cellular senescence is characterized by irreversible cell-cycle exit, a pro-inflammatory secretory phenotype, macromolecular damage, and deregulated metabolism. Senescent cells are highly associated with age-related diseases. We previously demonstrated that targeted elimination of senescent cells prevents neurodegenerative disease in tau (MAPT<sup>P301S</sup>;PS19) mutant mice. Here, we show that genetic ablation of the senescence mediator p16<sup>Ink4a</sup> is sufficient to attenuate senescence signatures in PS19 mice. Disease phenotypes-including neuroinflammation, phosphorylated tau, neurodegeneration, and cognitive impairment-were blunted in the absence of p16<sup>Ink4a</sup>. Additionally, we found that PS19 mouse brains display p16<sup>Ink4</sup>-dependent neurovascular alterations such as vessel dilation, increased vessel density, deregulated endothelial cell extracellular matrix, and astrocytic endfoot depolarization. Finally, we show that p16<sup>Ink4a</sup> deletion in endothelial cells and microglia alone attenuates many of the same phenotypes. Altogether, these results indicate that neurodegenerative disease in PS19 mice is driven, at least in part, by p16<sup>Ink4a</sup>-expressing endothelial cells and microglia.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144094401","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 : 2025-05-13DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.017
Ye-Jin Park, Tzu-Chiao Lu, Tyler Jackson, Lindsey D Goodman, Lindsey Ran, Jiaye Chen, Chung-Yi Liang, Erin Harrison, Christina Ko, Xi Chen, Baiping Wang, Ao-Lin Hsu, Elizabeth Ochoa, Kevin F Bieniek, Shinya Yamamoto, Yi Zhu, Hui Zheng, Yanyan Qi, Hugo J Bellen, Hongjie Li
{"title":"Distinct systemic impacts of Aβ42 and Tau revealed by whole-organism snRNA-seq.","authors":"Ye-Jin Park, Tzu-Chiao Lu, Tyler Jackson, Lindsey D Goodman, Lindsey Ran, Jiaye Chen, Chung-Yi Liang, Erin Harrison, Christina Ko, Xi Chen, Baiping Wang, Ao-Lin Hsu, Elizabeth Ochoa, Kevin F Bieniek, Shinya Yamamoto, Yi Zhu, Hui Zheng, Yanyan Qi, Hugo J Bellen, Hongjie Li","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Both neuronal and peripheral tissues become disrupted in Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, a comprehensive understanding of how AD impacts different tissues across the whole organism is lacking. Using Drosophila, we generated an AD Fly Cell Atlas (AD-FCA) based on whole-organism single-nucleus transcriptomes of 219 cell types from flies expressing AD-associated proteins, either human amyloid-β 42 peptide (Aβ42) or Tau, in neurons. We found that Aβ42 primarily affects the nervous system, including sensory neurons, while Tau induces accelerated aging in peripheral tissues. We identified a neuronal cluster enriched in Aβ42 flies, which has high lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) expression. This LDH-high cluster is conserved in 5XFAD mouse and human AD datasets. We found a conserved defect in fat metabolism from both fly and mouse tauopathy models. The AD-FCA offers new insights into how Aβ42 or Tau systemically and differentially affects a whole organism and provides a valuable resource for understanding brain-body communication in neurodegeneration.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144094433","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 : 2025-05-13DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.023
Hayley A Bounds, Hillel Adesnik
{"title":"Network influence determines the impact of cortical ensembles on stimulus detection.","authors":"Hayley A Bounds, Hillel Adesnik","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.023","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Causally connecting neural activity patterns to behavioral decisions is essential to understand the neural code but requires direct perturbation of the pattern of interest with high specificity. We combined two-photon imaging and cellular-resolution holographic optogenetic photostimulation to causally test how neural activity in the mouse visual cortex is read out to detect visual stimuli. Contrary to expectations, targeted activation of visually sensitive neural ensembles did not preferentially modify behavior compared with targeting randomly selected ensembles. Instead, an activated ensemble's effect on local network activity was the main predictor of its impact on perception. This suggests that downstream regions summate visual cortex activity without preferentially weighting more informative neurons, a notion confirmed by analyzing the impact of photostimulation on decoding models of neural activity. This work challenges conventional notions for how sensory representations mediate perception and demonstrates that perturbing activity is essential to determine which features of neural activity drive behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144086629","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 : 2025-05-08DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.018
Xuemei Liu, Juan Lai, Chuanliang Han, Hao Zhong, Kang Huang, Yuanming Liu, Xutao Zhu, Pengfei Wei, Liming Tan, Fuqiang Xu, Liping Wang
{"title":"Neural circuit underlying individual differences in visual escape habituation.","authors":"Xuemei Liu, Juan Lai, Chuanliang Han, Hao Zhong, Kang Huang, Yuanming Liu, Xutao Zhu, Pengfei Wei, Liming Tan, Fuqiang Xu, Liping Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emotions like fear help organisms respond to threats. Repeated predator exposure leads to adaptive responses with unclear neural mechanisms behind individual variability. We identify two escape behaviors in mice-persistent escape (T1) and rapid habituation (T2)-linked to unique arousal states under repetitive looming stimuli. Combining multichannel recording, circuit mapping, optogenetics, and behavioral analyses, we find parallel pathways from the superior colliculus (SC) to the basolateral amygdala (BLA) via the ventral tegmental area (VTA) for T1 and via the mediodorsal thalamus (MD) for T2. T1 involves heightened arousal, while T2 features rapid habituation. The MD integrates SC and insular cortex inputs to modulate arousal and defensive behaviors. This work reveals neural circuits underpinning adaptive threat responses and individual variability.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143991777","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.2025.04.008
Rebecca M Shansky
{"title":"An unexpected mediator of pain-driven opioid use in males-estrogen.","authors":"Rebecca M Shansky","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Men who take opioids to relieve pain are at the highest risk for maladaptive misuse and overdose, but a sex-specific neurobiological link between pain states and opioid use has not been identified. In this issue of Neuron, Higginbotham et al.<sup>1</sup> identify estradiol as a potent suppressor of midbrain dopaminergic activity that selectively reduces fentanyl intake in males.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":"113 9","pages":"1299-1301"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143974933","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.2025.04.009
Gabriela Carreno, Gemma M Balmer, Rebecca L Eccles
{"title":"The nervous system and cancer: A grand challenge and a call to collaborate.","authors":"Gabriela Carreno, Gemma M Balmer, Rebecca L Eccles","doi":"10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cancer Grand Challenges recently announced seven new challenges, inviting the global research community to assemble multinational interdisciplinary teams to take them on. By including a challenge focusing on the nervous system and cancer, we hope to deepen existing ties between cancer and neuroscience research, entice new thought leaders into the field, and make radical progress together.</p>","PeriodicalId":19313,"journal":{"name":"Neuron","volume":"113 9","pages":"1307-1309"},"PeriodicalIF":14.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144013076","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}