Prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) are a semi-fossorial rodent that are an emerging model in social neuroscience. Comparing laboratory-reared and wild-caught individuals is essential for understanding how environmental history shapes neural and sensory traits and for assessing the ecological validity of laboratory findings. Despite this, relatively few studies have taken this approach. We used auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) to compare ABR thresholds and ABR wave characteristics between...

No abstract

Experimental models such as heterochronic parabiosis and heterochronic plasma transfer have profoundly advanced our understanding of systemic aging, demonstrating that circulating factors can influence brain, vascular, and immune aging through cell nonautonomous mechanisms. These preclinical models have revealed that both pro-geronic and anti-geronic signals in blood can modulate neuroinflammation, neurovascular health, and cognitive resilience. However, despite their experimental promise, the...

The nonreceptor Abelson (Abl) tyrosine kinases have been implicated as key drivers of initiation and progression in Parkinson's disease (PD). Risvodetinib, a potent, brain-penetrant, selective inhibitor of the nonreceptor Abl kinases c-Abl1 and c-Abl2/Arg (collectively, c-Abl), was evaluated in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 2a trial ('the 201 Trial') using once-daily 50 mg, 100 mg, 200 mg or placebo in 137 participants with early, untreated PD. The primary end points in...

CONCLUSION: Findings are compatible with the view that real-time auditory feedback helps regulate the precision of articulatory control during task-relevant aspects of movement (i.e., constriction formation) and that articulators with greater flexibility-such as the tongue-require heightened sensory feedback to support fine-grained motor control.