Developmental Biology: Neurons That Divide Together Wire Together

The team that works together earns together.

Neurons that Fire Together Also Conspire Together: Is Normal Sleep Circuitry Hijacked to Generate Epilepsy?

Brain circuits oscillate during sleep. The same circuits appear to generate pathological oscillations. In this review, we discuss recent advances in our understanding of how epilepsy co-opts normal, sleep-related circuits to generate seizures.

Animal Behavior: The Family that Works Together Stays Together

A new study shows that biparental care in frogs is more likely to evolve when tadpoles are reared under environmentally harsh conditions. Biparental care facilitates both social monogamy and genetic monogamy; frogs that work together to raise their offspring have higher mating fidelity to one another.

Mentorship: The Bond that Brings Us Together

By the time you read this, the 37 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience will be underway, or will have come and gone. This year also marks the 16 anniversary of Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN), the parent organization of JUNE. Like many of you, I look forward to the SfN meeting, not just to learn more about neuroscience and how to teach neuroscience more effectively, but a...

News Feature: The cells that flock together.

Flesh really does crawl. Crowds of cells can surge forward together, form gyrating swirls and waves, segregate into types, and send off meandering tendrils or mobile exploratory clusters. Collective cell motions are crucial for everything from embryo development to wound healing to cancer metastasis. These cell colonies seem to move in concert, almost like flocks of birds, shoals of fish, or he...