Volume 25, Issue 9
September 2015
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Cover Picture: Functional genetic mutations in COMT modulate cortical thickening, neuronal density and working memory performance with different profiles strongly dependent on the sex of the subject in both mice and humans. MRI voxel-based morphometry of gray matter in the whole brain of adult male and female COMT knockout littermates first allowed revealing increased prefrontal and postero-parieto-temporal gray matter volume in male but not female COMT knockout mice (top left). In agreement, whole brain vertex-wise analysis of cortical thickness in healthy human subjects revealed a COMT Val/Met by sex interaction effect indicating that genetic-driven relative reduction of COMT resulted in increased thickness of the inferior frontal sulcus and superior temporal sulcus in males, but not females (bottom right). The background confocal image of a coronal mouse brain slice stained for hoechst+neun+cux1 finally indicates that beyond mere thickness, neuronal density may better predict cognitive outcomes. See Sannino et al. 2015. COMT genetic reduction produces sexually divergent effects on cortical anatomy and working memory in mice and humans. Cereb Cortex 25(9): 2529-2541.
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Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015
Feature Article
fMRI Cortical Correlates of Spontaneous Eye Blinks in the Nonhuman Primate
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2333–2345, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu038
Articles
What Makes the Muscle Twitch: Motor System Connectivity and TMS-Induced Activity
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2346–2353, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu032
The Representation of Orientation in Macaque V2: Four Stripes Not Three
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2354–2369, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu033
Rac-GTPases Regulate Microtubule Stability and Axon Growth of Cortical GABAergic Interneurons
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2370–2382, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu037
Linked Sex Differences in Cognition and Functional Connectivity in Youth
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2383–2394, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu036
CB1 Cannabinoid Receptor-Dependent Activation of mTORC1/Pax6 Signaling Drives Tbr2 Expression and Basal Progenitor Expansion in the Developing Mouse Cortex
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2395–2408, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu039
Enhancing Hebbian Learning to Control Brain Oscillatory Activity
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2409–2415, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu043
Reading Without Speech Sounds: VWFA and its Connectivity in the Congenitally Deaf
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2416–2426, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu044
Fingerprints of Learned Object Recognition Seen in the fMRI Activation Patterns of Lateral Occipital Complex
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2427–2439, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu042
Control of Inhibition by the Direct Action of Cannabinoids on GABAA Receptors
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2440–2455, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu045
The Temporal Cascade of Neural Processes Underlying Target Detection and Attentional Processing During Auditory Search
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2456–2465, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu047
Strengthening of Direction Selectivity by Broadly Tuned and Spatiotemporally Slightly Offset Inhibition in Mouse Visual Cortex
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2466–2477, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu049
Genetic and Environmental Influences on the Visual Word Form and Fusiform Face Areas
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2478–2493, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu048
The When and Where of Working Memory Dysfunction in Early-Onset Schizophrenia—A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2494–2506, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu050
Functional Connectivity Density in Congenitally and Late Blind Subjects
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2507–2516, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu051
Persistence of Functional Sensory Maps in the Absence of Cortical Layers in the Somsatosensory Cortex of Reeler Mice
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2517–2528, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu052
COMT Genetic Reduction Produces Sexually Divergent Effects on Cortical Anatomy and Working Memory in Mice and Humans
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2529–2541, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu053
A Differential and Timed Contribution of Identified Hippocampal Synapses to Associative Learning in Mice
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2542–2555, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu054
The Roots of Alzheimer's Disease: Are High-Expanding Cortical Areas Preferentially Targeted?
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2556–2565, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu055
Interplay Between Conceptual Expectations and Movement Predictions Underlies Action Understanding
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2566–2573, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu056
White Matter Tracts Connected to the Medial Temporal Lobe Support the Development of Mnemonic Control
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2574–2583, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu059
Creating Concepts from Converging Features in Human Cortex
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2584–2593, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu057
GABAA Receptor-Mediated Bidirectional Control of Synaptic Activity, Intracellular Ca2+, Cerebral Blood Flow, and Oxygen Consumption in Mouse Somatosensory Cortex In Vivo
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2594–2609, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu058
Expertise Effects in Face-Selective Areas are Robust to Clutter and Diverted Attention, but not to Competition
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2610–2622, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu060
Dissociating the Neural Correlates of Experiencing and Imagining Affective Touch
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2623–2630, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu061
Differential Activation of Fast-Spiking and Regular-Firing Neuron Populations During Movement and Reward in the Dorsal Medial Frontal Cortex
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2631–2647, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu062
Reflections of Oneself: Neurocognitive Evidence for Dissociable Forms of Self-Referential Recollection
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2648–2657, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu063
The Richness of Task-Evoked Hemodynamic Responses Defines a Pseudohierarchy of Functionally Meaningful Brain Networks
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2658–2669, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu064
The Corticospinal Tract in Huntington's Disease
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2670–2682, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu065
Postnatal Erythropoietin Mitigates Impaired Cerebral Cortical Development Following Subplate Loss from Prenatal Hypoxia–Ischemia
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2683–2695, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu066
Connectome and Maturation Profiles of the Developing Mouse Brain Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2696–2706, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu068
Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum Due to Defective Glial Wedge Formation in Lhx2 Mutant Mice
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2707–2718, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu067
Correlation Between Activation of the Prelimbic Cortex, Basolateral Amygdala, and Agranular Insular Cortex During Taste Memory Formation
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2719–2728, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu069
LSD1 Neurospecific Alternative Splicing Controls Neuronal Excitability in Mouse Models of Epilepsy
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2729–2740, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu070
Long-Term Synaptic Plasticity in Rat Barrel Cortex
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2741–2751, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu071
Talking in Fury: The Cortico-Subcortical Network Underlying Angry Vocalizations
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2752–2762, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu074
Functional Characterization of the Cingulo-Opercular Network in the Maintenance of Tonic Alertness
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2763–2773, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu072
Pitch Memory in Nonmusicians and Musicians: Revealing Functional Differences Using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2774–2782, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu075
Widespread Monoaminergic Dysregulation of Both Motor and Non-Motor Circuits in Parkinsonism and Dyskinesia
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2783–2792, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu076
Structural Brain Connectivity in School-Age Preterm Infants Provides Evidence for Impaired Networks Relevant for Higher Order Cognitive Skills and Social Cognition
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2793–2805, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu073
Neural Mechanism for Mirrored Self-face Recognition
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2806–2814, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu077
Coordinated Information Generation and Mental Flexibility: Large-Scale Network Disruption in Children with Autism
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2815–2827, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu082
Determinants of Global Color-Based Selection in Human Visual Cortex
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2828–2841, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu078
The Effects of X Chromosome Loss on Neuroanatomical and Cognitive Phenotypes During Adolescence: a Multi-modal Structural MRI and Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2842–2853, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu079
Cortical Gray–White Matter Blurring and Cognitive Morbidity in Focal Cortical Dysplasia
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2854–2862, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu080
ADF/Cofilin Controls Synaptic Actin Dynamics and Regulates Synaptic Vesicle Mobilization and Exocytosis
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2863–2875, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu081
Network Interactions Explain Sensitivity to Dynamic Faces in the Superior Temporal Sulcus
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2876–2882, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu083
Asymmetry of White Matter Pathways in Developing Human Brains
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2883–2893, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu084
Spatial Attention and Temporal Expectation Under Timed Uncertainty Predictably Modulate Neuronal Responses in Monkey V1
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2894–2906, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu086
When Action Observation Facilitates Visual Perception: Activation in Visuo-Motor Areas Contributes to Object Recognition
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2907–2918, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu087
Functional Network Development During the First Year: Relative Sequence and Socioeconomic Correlations
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2919–2928, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu088
Robust Long-Range Coordination of Spontaneous Neural Activity in Waking, Sleep and Anesthesia
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2929–2938, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu089
Conditional Loss of Arx From the Developing Dorsal Telencephalon Results in Behavioral Phenotypes Resembling Mild Human ARX Mutations
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2939–2950, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu090
Stimulus Dependence of Gamma Oscillations in Human Visual Cortex
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2951–2959, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu091
Tracking the Time Course of Competition During Word Production: Evidence for a Post-Retrieval Mechanism of Conflict Resolution
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2960–2969, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu092
Transplantation of GABAergic Interneurons into the Neonatal Primary Visual Cortex Reduces Absence Seizures in Stargazer Mice
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2970–2979, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu094
Neural Substrates of Dopamine D2 Receptor Modulated Executive Functions in the Monkey Prefrontal Cortex
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2980–2987, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu096
Limbic Tract Integrity Contributes to Pattern Separation Performance Across the Lifespan
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2988–2999, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu093
The Neonatal Connectome During Preterm Brain Development
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 3000–3013, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu095
Early Brain Activity Relates to Subsequent Brain Growth in Premature Infants
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 3014–3024, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu097
Rapid Bidirectional Reorganization of Cortical Microcircuits
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 3025–3035, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu098
Hierarchical Encoding of Social Cues in Primate Inferior Temporal Cortex
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 3036–3045, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu099
Identifying Neuroimaging Markers of Motor Disability in Acute Stroke by Machine Learning Techniques
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 3046–3056, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu100
Orbitofrontal Cortex Reactivity to Angry Facial Expression in a Social Interaction Correlates with Aggressive Behavior
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 3057–3063, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu101
Role of Central Serotonin in Anticipation of Rewarding and Punishing Outcomes: Effects of Selective Amygdala or Orbitofrontal 5-HT Depletion
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 3064–3076, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu102
Delta–Beta Coupled Oscillations Underlie Temporal Prediction Accuracy
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 3077–3085, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu103
Thalamocortical Connectivity Correlates with Phenotypic Variability in Dystonia
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 3086–3094, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu104
Topography of Visuomotor Parameters in the Frontal and Premotor Eye Fields
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 3095–3106, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu106
Dysregulation of TrkB Receptors and BDNF Function by Amyloid-β Peptide is Mediated by Calpain
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 3107–3121, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu105
Path Complexity in Virtual Water Maze Navigation: Differential Associations with Age, Sex, and Regional Brain Volume
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 3122–3131, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu107
Prenatal Stress Produces Persistence of Remote Memory and Disrupts Functional Connectivity in the Hippocampal–Prefrontal Cortex Axis
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 3132–3143, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu108
Observed, Executed, and Imagined Action Representations can be Decoded From Ventral and Dorsal Areas
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 3144–3158, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu110
Motivated Memories: Effects of Reward and Recollection in the Core Recollection Network and Beyond
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 3159–3166, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu109
Coordinated Recruitment of Cortical–Subcortical Circuits and Ascending Dopamine and Serotonin Neurons During Inhibitory Control of Cocaine Seeking in Rats
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 3167–3181, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu112
Local and Global Correlations between Neurons in the Middle Temporal Area of Primate Visual Cortex
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 3182–3196, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu111
Behavioral Regulation and the Modulation of Information Coding in the Lateral Prefrontal and Cingulate Cortex
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 3197–3218, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu114
Conversational Interaction in the Scanner: Mentalizing during Language Processing as Revealed by MEG
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 3219–3234, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu116
The Persistence of Experience: Prior Attentional and Emotional State Affects Network Functioning in a Target Detection Task
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 3235–3248, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu115
Effect of the Nicotinic α4β2-receptor Partial Agonist Varenicline on Non-invasive Brain Stimulation-Induced Neuroplasticity in the Human Motor Cortex
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 3249–3259, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu126
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