FENS Forum 2024

Welcome

We are pleased to present an outstanding selection of articles curated specifically for The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum 2024 opens in new tab/window. Highlighting the most recent developments and fresh viewpoints, this carefully chosen collection has been assembled to support the 10 Session Groups  opens in new tab/windowin the FENS 2024 programme, and the wider neuroscience community. In order to make it simpler to locate all the pertinent research on a particular topic in one location, we listed the collections based on Topics for each session. We enthusiastically encourage you to peruse the FENS 2024 Topics Collection and learn more about the fascinating developments influencing the future of neuroscience research.

FENS 2024 Themes and Topics Collection

A. Development and Stem Cells

• Rehabilitation facilitates functional improvement following intravenous infusion of mesenchymal stem cells in the chronic phase of cerebral ischemia in rats opens in new tab/window

• BMSCs attenuate radiation-induced brain injury induced hippocampal neuronal apoptosis through a PI3K/Akt/Bax/Bcl-2 signaling pathway opens in new tab/window

• Intranasal administration of umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cell exosomes alleviates Parkinson's disease opens in new tab/window

• Human Placenta Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Transplantation Reducing Cellular Apoptosis in Hypoxic-Ischemic Neonatal Rats by Down-Regulating Semaphorin 3A/Neuropilin-1 opens in new tab/window

• Human umbilical cord blood mesenchymal stem cells mediate microglia activation and improve anxiety-like behavior in MIA-induced offspring of schizophrenic rats opens in new tab/window

• Intestinal epithelial stem cell transplants as a novel therapy for cerebrovascular stroke opens in new tab/window

• Stem cell-conditioned medium is a promising treatment for Alzheimer's disease. opens in new tab/window

B. Neurons and Glia: Intrinsic Properties, Cell Biology and Cell Types

• SARS-CoV-2 induces inflammation and intracranial infection through the olfactory epithelium-olfactory bulb pathway in non-human primates opens in new tab/window

• Oxytocin-receptor-expressing neurons in the lateral parabrachial nucleus activate widespread brain regions predominantly involved in fluid satiation opens in new tab/window

• Microglia-dependent excessive synaptic pruning leads to cortical underconnectivity and behavioral abnormality following chronic social defeat stress in mice opens in new tab/window

• Tonic noradrenergic input to neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus mediates food intake in male mice opens in new tab/window

• Early life exposure to chronic unpredictable stress induces anxiety-like behaviors and increases the excitability of cerebellar neurons in zebrafish opens in new tab/window

• Modeling enteric glia development, physiology and disease using human pluripotent stem cells opens in new tab/window

C. Cell-Cell communication and Plasticity

• Limbic system plasticity after electroacupuncture intervention in knee osteoarthritis rats opens in new tab/window

• The role of neuroglial cells communication in ischemic stroke opens in new tab/window

• Depressive-like behavior and impaired synaptic plasticity in the prefrontal cortex as later consequences of prenatal hypoxic-ischemic insult in rats opens in new tab/window

• Genotype determining aerobic exercise capacity associates with behavioral plasticity in middle-aged rats opens in new tab/window

• Schedule-induced alcohol intake during adolescence sex dependently impairs hippocampal synaptic plasticity and spatial memory opens in new tab/window

• Fear conditioning and extinction distinctively alter bidirectional synaptic plasticity within the amygdala of an animal model of post-traumatic stress disorder opens in new tab/window

• Remembering and forgetting in sleep: Selective synaptic plasticity during sleep driven by scaling factors Homer1a and Arc opens in new tab/window

D. Sensory and Motor Systems

• Spatio-temporal modulation of cortical activity during motor deadaptation depends on the feedback of task-related error opens in new tab/window

• CX3CR1 mediates motor dysfunction in mice through 5-HTR2a opens in new tab/window

• Protective effects of EVs/exosomes derived from permanently growing human MSC on primary murine ALS motor neurons opens in new tab/window

• Effects of soluble TREM2 on motor progression in Parkinson’s disease opens in new tab/window

• Involvement of primary somatosensory cortex in motor learning and task execution opens in new tab/window

• Inflammation of some visceral sensory systems and autonomic dysfunction in cardiovascular disease opens in new tab/window

• More than meets the eye: The role of sensory dimensions in psychedelic brain dynamics, experience, and therapeutics opens in new tab/window

E. Cognition and Behaviour

• Clinical and cortical trajectories in non-fluent primary progressive aphasia and Alzheimer’s disease: A role for emotion processing opens in new tab/window

• The ‘L-factor’: Language as a transdiagnostic dimension in psychopathology opens in new tab/window

• Social cognition in idiopathic generalised epilepsies opens in new tab/window

• Creatine supplementation research fails to support the theoretical basis for an effect on cognition: Evidence from a systematic review opens in new tab/window

• Neuroanatomical markers of social cognition in neglected adolescents opens in new tab/window

• The effects of stress across the lifespan on the brain, cognition and mental health: A UK biobank study opens in new tab/window

• Heterogeneity of social cognition between visual perspective-taking and theory of mind in the temporo-parietal junction opens in new tab/window

F. Internal States and Homeostasis

• Mitochondrial homeostasis regulation: A promising therapeutic target for Parkinson's disease opens in new tab/window

• A TNF-α inhibitor abolishes sepsis-induced cognitive impairment in mice by modulating acetylcholine and nitric oxide homeostasis, BDNF release, and neuroinflammation opens in new tab/window

• Labelfree mapping and profiling of altered lipid homeostasis in the rat hippocampus after traumatic stress: Role of oxidative homeostasis opens in new tab/window

• Chronic hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis disruption alters glutamate homeostasis and neural responses to stress in male C57Bl6/N mice opens in new tab/window

• Developmental regulation of zinc homeostasis in differentiating oligodendrocytes opens in new tab/window

• Brain cholesterol homeostasis and its association with neurodegenerative diseases opens in new tab/window

• Homeostasis of serine enantiomers is disrupted in the post-mortem caudate putamen and cerebrospinal fluid of living Parkinson's disease patients opens in new tab/window

G. Disorders of the Nervous System

• CNS pharmacology of NKCC1 inhibitors opens in new tab/window

• Machine learning applications on neuroimaging for diagnosis and prognosis of epilepsy: A review opens in new tab/window

• Clinical and imaging evidence of brain-first and body-first Parkinson's disease opens in new tab/window

• Exosomes derived from bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells promote remyelination and reduce neuroinflammation in the demyelinating central nervous system opens in new tab/window

• Soluble TREM2: Innocent bystander or active player in neurological diseases? opens in new tab/window

• Co-expression patterns of microglia markers Iba1, TMEM119 and P2RY12 in Alzheimer's disease opens in new tab/window

• Urolithin A promotes mitophagy and suppresses NLRP3 inflammasome activation in lipopolysaccharide-induced BV2 microglial cells and MPTP-induced Parkinson's disease model opens in new tab/window

H. Circuit Dynamics and Oscillations

• The association between overnight recognition accuracy and slow oscillation-spindle coupling is moderated by BDNF Val66Met opens in new tab/window

• Ketamine supresses REM sleep and markedly increases EEG gamma oscillations in the Wistar Kyoto rat model of treatment-resistant depression opens in new tab/window

• REM sleep promotes bidirectional plasticity in developing visual cortex in vivo opens in new tab/window

• Loss of sleep when it is needed most – Consequences of persistent developmental sleep disruption: A scoping review of rodent models opens in new tab/window

• High emotional reactivity is associated with activation of a molecularly distinct hippocampal-amygdala circuit modulated by the glucocorticoid receptor opens in new tab/window

• Impact of stress on inhibitory neuronal circuits, our tribute to Bruce McEwen opens in new tab/window

• An automated platform for Assessing Working Memory and prefrontal circuit function opens in new tab/window

I. Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience

• Unsupervised learning of mid-level visual representations opens in new tab/window

• AI ethics in computational psychiatry: From the neuroscience of consciousness to the ethics of consciousness opens in new tab/window

• Extracting continuous sleep depth from EEG data without machine learning opens in new tab/window

• The neurocomputational signature of decision-making for unfair offers in females under acute psychological stress opens in new tab/window

• Experimental and computational analyses of calcium dynamics in 22q11.2 deletion model astrocytes opens in new tab/window

• Technological and computational approaches to detect somatic mosaicism in epilepsy opens in new tab/window

• Theoretical and methodological analysis of EEG based seizure detection and prediction: An exhaustive review opens in new tab/window

J. Novel Methods and Technology Development

• MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD: Growing evidence for memory effects mediating treatment efficacy opens in new tab/window

• Preliminary evaluation of novel Bodily Attention Task to assess the role of the brain in chemotherapy-induced peripheral neurotoxicity (CIPN) opens in new tab/window

• B2 SINE RNA as a novel regulator of glucocorticoid receptor transcriptional activity opens in new tab/window

• AutoRG: An automatized reach-to-grasp platform technology for assessing forelimb motor function, neural circuit activation, and cognition in rodents opens in new tab/window

• A novel method for classification of multi-class motor imagery tasks based on feature fusion opens in new tab/window

• A review on current brain organoid technologies from a biomedical engineering perspective opens in new tab/window

• A novel method to selectively elicit cold sensations without touch opens in new tab/window

Neuroscience Journal Collection

• Addiction Neuroscience opens in new tab/window

• Animal Behaviour opens in new tab/window

• Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical opens in new tab/window

• Behavioural Brain Research opens in new tab/window

• Brain Behavior and Immunity opens in new tab/window

• Brain Behavior and Immunity Integrative opens in new tab/window

• Brain Organoid and Systems Neuroscience Journal opens in new tab/window

• Brain Research opens in new tab/window

• Brain Research Bulletin opens in new tab/window

• Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health opens in new tab/window

• Cortex opens in new tab/window

• Current Opinion in Endocrine and Metabolic Research opens in new tab/window

• Current Opinion in Neurobiology opens in new tab/window

• Current Research in Neurobiology opens in new tab/window

• Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience opens in new tab/window

• Experimental Neurology opens in new tab/window

• Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology opens in new tab/window

• Glial Health Research opens in new tab/window

• Hormones and Behavior opens in new tab/window

• IBRO Neuroscience Reports opens in new tab/window

• Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy opens in new tab/window

• Journal of Neuroimmunology opens in new tab/window

• Journal of Neuroscience Methods opens in new tab/window

• Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology opens in new tab/window

• Mechanisms of Ageing and Development opens in new tab/window

• Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology opens in new tab/window

• Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience opens in new tab/window

• Neurobiology of Disease opens in new tab/window

• Neurobiology of Learning and Memory opens in new tab/window

• Neurobiology of Pain opens in new tab/window

• Neurobiology of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms opens in new tab/window

• Neurobiology of Stress opens in new tab/window

• Neurochemistry International opens in new tab/window

• NeuroImage opens in new tab/window

• NeuroImage: Clinical opens in new tab/window

• Neuroimage: Reports opens in new tab/window

• Neuropeptides opens in new tab/window

• Neuropharmacology opens in new tab/window

• Neuropsychologia opens in new tab/window

• Neuroscience opens in new tab/window

• Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews opens in new tab/window

• Neuroscience Letters opens in new tab/window

• Neuroscience Research opens in new tab/window

• Peptides opens in new tab/window

• Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior opens in new tab/window

• Physiology & Behavior opens in new tab/window

• Progress in Neurobiology opens in new tab/window

• Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry opens in new tab/window

• Steroids opens in new tab/window

New Open Access Journals