The Journal Club

Khait I, Lewin-Epstein O, Sharon R, Saban K, Goldstein R, Anikster Y, Zeron Y, Agassy C, Nizan S, Sharabi G, Perelman R, Boonman A, Sade N, Yovel Y, Hadany L. Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative. Cell. 2023 Mar 30

Is plant acoustic communication fact or fiction?Jin-Soo Son, Seonghan Jang, Nicolas Mathevon, Choong-Min Ryu

Enhanced ERK activity extends ketamine's antidepressant effects by augmenting synaptic plasticity

Ma ZZ, Guzikowski NJ, Kim JW, Kavalali ET, Monteggia LM. Enhanced ERK activity extends ketamine's antidepressant effects by augmenting synaptic plasticity. Science. 2025 May 8

Hashimoto K. Extending ketamine's antidepressant effects. Science. 2025 May 8;388(6747):589-590. doi: 10.1126/science.adx4559. Epub 2025 May 8.

Flowers with bad breath: How an old gene acquired a new function to exploit an insect’s sense of smell May9, 2025 Science; Lorenzo Caputi and Sarah E. O'Connor

Okuyama Y, Fukushima K, Kakishima S, Valchanova AK, Takano KT, Ito-Inaba Y, Nakazato T, Nagano AJ. Convergent acquisition of disulfide-forming enzymes in malodorous flowers. Science. 2025 May 8;388(6747):656-661. doi: 10.1126/science.adu8988. Epub 2025 May 8

Wagner M, Berecki G, Fazeli W, Nussbaum C, Flemmer AW, Frizzo S, Heer F, Heinen F, Horton R, Jacotin H, Motel W, Spar B, Klein C, Siegel C, Hübener C, Stöcklein S, Paolini M, Staudt M, Tacke M, Wolff M, Petrou S, Souza M, Borggraefe I. Antisense oligonucleotide treatment in a preterm infant with early-onset SCN2A developmental and epileptic encephalopathy. Nat Med. 2025 Apr 22

Giovanniello JR, Paredes N, Wiener A, Ramírez-Armenta K, Oragwam C, Uwadia HO, Yu AL, Lim K, Pimenta JS, Vilchez GE, Nnamdi G, Wang A, Sehgal M, Reis FM, Sias AC, Silva AJ, Adhikari A, Malvaez M, Wassum KM. A dual-pathway architecture for stress to disrupt agency and promote habit. Nature. 2025 Apr

How political attacks could crush the mRNA vaccine revolution. Drug makers are scrambling to navigate an ‘existential threat’ to a once-celebrated technology. Nature; 09 May 2025; Elie Dolgin

Quave CB, Vasquez AM, Aquino-Miranda G, Marín M, Bora EP, Chidomere CL, Zhang XO, Engelke DS, Do-Monte FH. Neural correlates of opioid-induced risk-taking behavior in the prelimbic prefrontal cortex. J Neurosci. 2025 Mar 17

Maechler MR, Choe E, Cavanagh P, Kohler PJ, Tse PU. Hemifield Specificity of Attention Response Functions During Multiple Object Tracking. J Neurosci. 2025 Mar 27

Passiatore R, Lupo A, Sambuco N, Antonucci LA, Stolfa G, Bertolino A, Popolizio T, Suchan B, Pergola G. Interindividual Variability In Memory Performance Is Related To Cortico-Thalamic Networks During Memory Encoding And Retrieval. J Neurosci. 2025 Mar 27

Subramanian R, Bauman A, Carpenter O, Cho C, Coste G, Dam A, Drake K, Ehnstrom S, Fitzgerald N, Jenkins A, Koolpe H, Liu R, Paserman T, Petersen D, Scala Chavez D, Rozental S, Thompson H, Tsukuda T, Zweig S, Gall M, Zupan B, Bergstrom H. An infralimbic cortex engram encoded during learning attenuates fear generalization. J Neurosci. 2025 Mar 27