'Venous origins of choroid plexus vasculature: insights from zebrafish' TINS 'Spotlight' by Bing Xu, Yu Zhang, Wen-Jie Du & Jiu-Lin Du www.cell.com/trends/neuro... discussing Lee et al. 2026 Journal of Neuroscience, Ryota Matsuoka group www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1...

The ‘neat’ and ‘messy’ in task-dependent neural geometry and computation by Cheng Xue @cxue.bsky.social & Gouki Okazawa @gouki-okazawa.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'A holistic perspective on noninvasive brain–computer interfaces' Yidan Ding, Joshua Kosnoff & Bin He www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Science Needs 3rd Spaces We envision scientific third spaces as “collaborative hubs where researchers, artists, engineers, and practitioners co-develop methods, share resources, and pursue projects driven by curiosity". authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

'Neuronal STAT1 as a phase switch from antiviral defense to synaptopathy in encephalitis' by Giovanni Di Liberto & Doron Merkler @dilibertomd.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'TRAPing trigeminal ganglion neurons driving mechanical allodynia' www.cell.com/trends/neuro... 'Spotlight' commentary by Dong Dong & Longzhen Cheng discussing Li, Son, et al. 2026 @cp-CellReports.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-reports...

'Mapping neuronal selectivity and invariance in the mammalian visual cortex using digital twins' www.cell.com/trends/neuro... TINS 'Spotlight' by Xiaoxuan Jia, discussing Ding, Tran, et al. 2026, Nature Neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

'Sexual dimorphism in pheromone perception across worms, flies, and rodents' by Qian Li, Yufeng Pan & Xia-Jing Tong www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Defining multipotent intermediate progenitors in cortical development' Nardos Kebede & Steven Sloan @sloanlab.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Check out the May 2026 issue of Trends in Neurosciences: www.cell.com/issue/S0166-... On the cover: ‘Cell-autonomous and non-cell-autonomous drivers of dopamine neuron vulnerability in Parkinson’s disease’, by Alex Tchung, Amandine Even & @LouisTrudeau.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'EEG microstates: from methodological foundations to clinical translation' Review by Christoph Michel and Lucie Bréchet www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Epigenetic biomarkers in neurodegenerative diseases: from molecular signatures to therapeutic targets' by Sam Washer, Marty Frith, Elizabeth Cowan, Emma Dempster, Jonathan Mill & Sophie Farrow www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'A dimmer switch for reward: the vagus sets the gain' TINS 'Spotlight' by Hongyun Wang, Shuhan Liu & Ling Bai www.cell.com/trends/neuro... discussing Onimus et al. 2026, Science Advances; Giuseppe Gangarossa group www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We are pleased to highlight the launch of Trends Open—a new Cell Press multidisciplinary, open access reviews journal, offering an inclusive platform for commentaries and fresh perspectives across life, physical, health, sustainability, and applied sciences. Learn more: www.cell.com/trends-open/...

'The impact of dendritic mitochondrial heterogeneity on synapse function' by Mikel Cawley & Shannon Farris @shannonfarris.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'The subiculum: cell-type-specific composition, computation, and function' by Adrienne Kinman @adriennekinman.bsky.social, Larissa Kraus & Mark Cembrowski @markcembrowski.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Head direction and the evolutionary origins of spatial representation' by Marcel Sayre, Ajay Narendra, Stanley Heinze & Andrew Barron www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Splicing, RNA editing, and auxiliary subunits shaped AMPA receptor function through coordinated evolution' by Derek Bowie www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Aging brain, brittle bone' 'Spotlight' commentary by Manyu Zhu & Aaron James www.cell.com/trends/neuro... discussing Chen et al., Nature Aging www.nature.com/articles/s43...

'Physical exercise, cognition, and brain health in aging' Review by Nárlon Boa Sorte Silva, Cindy Barha, Kirk Erickson, Arthur Kramer & Teresa Liu-Ambrose www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'DNA repair as a core function of sleep' TINS 'Spotlight' by John Lesku & Hannah Elmes www.cell.com/trends/neuro... discussing Aguillon, Harduf et al. @natcomms.nature.com, Lior Appelbaum group www.nature.com/articles/s41...

'Reprogramming aging astrocytes in Alzheimer’s disease' TINS 'Spotlight' by Maria Alfonso-Triguero & Amaia Arranz www.cell.com/trends/neuro... discussing Choi et al., @natneuro.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

'Triggered minds: key considerations for symptom provocation research in anxiety-related disorders' by Xena Serifova, Bart Boets & Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Check out the April 2026 issue of Trends in Neurosciences! www.cell.com/issue/S0166-... Featured articles & more: cell.com/trends/neuro... Cover article: ‘Decoding the functions of nuclear speckles in neurodegeneration’, by Xu Chen & Bokai Zhu www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'The contribution of default mode network areas to visual perception' by Bettina Ujhelyi, Živa Korda & Natalia Zaretskaya www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Cognitive performance after stroke at a young age from a brain network perspective' by Hao Li, Mijntje Schellekens, Vitória Piai, Roy Kessels, Frank-Erik de Leeuw & Anil Tuladhar www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'From maternal metabolism to offspring brain: how high-fructose diets shape neurodevelopment' by Ana Sofia Vallés, Facundo Prado Spalm & Marié L. Cuervo Sánchez www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Cellular and molecular mechanisms of astrocyte plasticity in learning and memory' Review article by Leanne Holt, Eric Nestler & Michelle Olsen @olsenlab-vt.bsky.social @holtlm90.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Neurodevelopment is such a fun field because so much is new to explore and define. But also that means it can be unclear. In our new review out this week @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social, we try to synthesize the confusing field of neural intermediate progenitors authors.elsevier.com/a/1msKvbotqB...

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'A dual-function framework of interoception: the information and coordination modes of interoceptive signaling' by Catherine Tallon-Baudry, Marie Loescher (@marieloescher.bsky.social) & Anthony Clément www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Check out the March 2026 issue of Trends in Neurosciences: www.cell.com/issue/S0166-... Featured articles & more: cell.com/trends/neuro... Cover article by Andrew Gaudet (@gaudet.bsky.social) & Laura Fonken (@fonken.bsky.social), on phagocytosis and neuroinflammation: www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

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'Challenges and opportunities in adapting high-throughput functional assays for in vivo neuroscience' Din Selmanovic & Joseph Dougherty www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Rethinking neurodegeneration through a co-proteinopathy lens' by Yu Zhang, Shekhar Kedia & David Klenerman www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Making of BDNF: role of promoters, enhancers, and untranslated regions' by Eli-Eelika Esvald, Annela Avarlaid, Indrek Koppel, Jürgen Tuvikene & Tõnis Timmusk www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Micro- and nanoplastics in neurological dysfunction' by Sean Gettings, Riddhi Sharma & Nora Bourbia www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Evolving perspectives on the molecular and neural foundations of mammalian circadian rhythms' by Yanqin Liu, Ran Huo & Eric E. Zhang www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Mitochondrial specialization and signaling shape neuronal function' by Benjamin Chun-Kit Tong, Francesco Gubinelli, Lena Burbulla & Angelika Harbauer www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Flexible circuits for visually guided flight control in Drosophila' Review article by Bettina Schnell www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'A neurobiological perspective on prolonged grief disorder' by Richard Bryant, Isabella Breukelaar & Mayuresh Korgaonkar www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Neuropeptides in control of left–right neural circuits' by Benedict Kolber, Volker Neugebauer, Catherine Thorn, Robert Froemke & Georgy Bakalkin www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'The postsubiculum as a head-direction cortex' by Adrian Duszkiewicz, Desdemona Fricker, Andrea Burgalossi & Adrien Peyrache @adrian-du.bsky.social @desdemonafricker.bsky.social @apeyrache.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'A neurobiological taxonomy of sedentary behavior for brain health' www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Check out the February 2026 issue of Trends in Neurosciences: www.cell.com/issue/S0166-... Cover article: ‘Basal progenitors as drivers of neocortical expansion’, by Soraia Barão & Ulrich Müller www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Happy to share this Spotlight article, drawing attention to recent work by @borgkvistlab.bsky.social on the mechanisms of dopamine action in the SNr. Read our summary and then read their paper! Many cool implications! @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Dyslexia: a window into the cortical mechanisms of adaptive speech analysis' by Anastasia Klimovich-Gray, Mirjana Bozic, Nicola Molinaro & Marie Lallier www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Developmental perspectives on spatial navigation: sensory development, experience, and neuronal heterogeneity' by Xiaojing Chen, Liming Tan & Cheng Wang www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Evolving insights into the identity and function of dark microglia' by Anna Flury, Marie-Kim St-Pierre, Pinar Ayata & Marie-Ève Tremblay www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Reconstructing the human brain’s wiring diagram from axons up' by Sarah Heilbronner, R. Clay Reid, Tanya Casta & Franco Pestilli www.cell.com/trends/neuro...