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…”funding for mental-health research globally entered a steep decline, and by 2023 had fallen back to 2014 levels in real terms..” we urgently need investment in this area, very often overlooked when agencies and donors focus on major health challenges

The healing of the spinal cord depends on carefully timed interactions between injured nerve cells and their surrounding environment, according to a new study on zebrafish published in Science Advances by KI researchers 🧪 #SpinalCordInjury #neuroscience news.ki.se/timing-found...

A study in Nature Neuroscience maps spontaneous and choice activity across mouse prefrontal cortex. The activity maps aligned with intrinsic connectivity rather than anatomical subregions, suggesting that connectivity, not cytoarchitecture, organizes prefrontal function. #Neuroskyence 🧪

Activity-based maps of the prefrontal cortex in mice, presented in @natneuro.nature.com today, challenge classical descriptions of the brain. The new maps reveal functional territories that differ from traditional, tissue-based maps. #Neuroscience #Brain 🧪 news.ki.se/new-brain-ma...

Join us for the Honorary SWEBAGS Webinar 2026 on Fri Feb 27, 11:30 AM (Stockholm), with Professors Glenda Halliday and Maria Grazia Spillantini. No registration needed; link shared closer to the date. #BasalGanglia #Neuroscience swebags.ebrains.se/events/honor...

CRN Teams Cragg & Jakobsson's new #preprint maps the cell-type–specific transcriptional landscape of the parkinsonian striatum in mouse models and human Parkinson's stages, revealing widespread gene expression changes and resilient neuron subtypes amid progressive dopamine loss 🧪 🔗 bit.ly/4ju4MmS

State-of-the-art neural recording technologies now enable dense sampling of neuronal activity, demonstrating meaningful spiking variability from moment to moment. Yet spiking activity is sparse by nature and allows only partial access to collective neuronal dynamics. Local field potentials (LFPs) provide complementary information by capturing coordinated activity from large neuronal populations, but methods to characterize the fine-scale spatio-temporal organization of LFPs are lacking. Starting from the notion that neural oscillations are brief and burst-like, we introduce a framework to detect and analyze SPatially Organized Oscillatory Cliques (SPOOCs), oscillatory events that are cohesive in space, time, and frequency. SPOOCs displayed diverse dynamics in space and frequency and were differentially modulated during stimulus processing. Linking SPOOCs to local spiking, we demonstrate that these events index rapid reconfigurations of neuronal assemblies. With SPOOChunter, we provide an open-source toolbox that enables systematic detection and analysis of transient, spatially organized population dynamics in high-density electrophysiological recordings. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.

Please share: I am recruiting a PhD student to join my lab in Oslo! For this project, we will investigate the role of striatal interneurons during action selection, using a combination of behavior, in vivo voltage imaging, and slice ephys. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #NeuroJobs #NeuroSkyence