The Journal Club

Lechat, B., Manners, J., Pinilla, L. et al. Global warming may increase the burden of obstructive sleep apnea. Nat Commun 16, 5100 (2025)

Watanabe, T., Yamasue, H. Noninvasive reduction of neural rigidity alters autistic behaviors in humans. Nat Neurosci 28, 1348–1360 (2025)

da Rocha, J.F., Lance, M.L., Luo, R. et al. Protective exercise responses in the dentate gyrus of Alzheimer’s disease mouse model revealed with single-nucleus RNA-sequencing. Nat Neurosci (2025).

Athar, F., Zheng, Z., Riquier, S. et al. Limited cell-autonomous anticancer mechanisms in long-lived bats. Nat Commun 16, 4125 (2025)

Shao, LX., Liao, C., Davoudian, P.A. et al. Psilocybin’s lasting action requires pyramidal cell types and 5-HT2A receptors. Nature 642, 411–420 (2025)

CRISPR helps to show why a boy felt no pain. Nature. 2025 Jun;

Antunes FTT, Gandini MA, Garcia-Caballero A, Huang S, Ali MY, Gambeta E, Souza IA, Harding EK, Ferron L, Stray-Pedersen A, Gadotti VM, Zamponi GW. A pathological missense mutation in the deubiquitinase USP5 leads to insensitivity to pain. J Exp Med. 2025 Aug 4

Nature 11 June 2025 How to keep weight off after obesity drugs by Elie Dolgin

Rodriguez, P. J. et al. JAMA Netw. Open 8, e2457349 (2025).

Eisenberg, D. et al. Surg. Obes. Relat. Dis. 18, 1345–1356 (2022)

Itani, M. I. et al. Obes. Surg. 32, 381–390 (2022).

Maselli, D. B. et al. Gastroenterology 167, 1457–1459 (2024).

van Baar, A. C. G. et al. Diabetes Res. Clin. Pract. 184, 109194 (2022).

Mingrone, G. et al. Gut 71, 254–264 (2022).

Aronne, L. J. et al. JAMA 331, 38–48 (2024).

Lundgren, J. R. et al. N. Engl. J. Med. 384, 1719–1730 (2021).

Paddu, N. U., Lawrence, B., Wong, S., Poon, S. J. & Srivastava, G. Obesity 32, 2255–2263 (2024).

Nature 11 June 2025 World first: brain implant lets man speak with expression ― and sing by Miryam Naddaf

Singer-Clark T, Hou X, Card NS, Wairagkar M, Iacobacci C, Peracha H, Hochberg LR, Stavisky SD, Brandman DM. Speech motor cortex enables BCI cursor control and click. J Neural Eng. 2025 May 14

Martinot, P., Colnet, B., Breda, T. et al. Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade. Nature (2025)

Changes in the auditory cortex of children receiving gene therapy for deafness. Nat Hum Behav (2025).