The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives

The European Molecular Biology Organization is hosting a workshop titled “Neuronal autophagy: From circuit function to therapy.” Register and submit abstracts by 15 February.

Nanci Winke et al. investigate how the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex translates environmental sensory cues into motivated behaviors. They find that “dmPFC populations primarily encode appetitive and aversive values of learned stimuli and that subpopulations encode valence and salience along orthogonal information axes.”

Shubhang Bhalla et al. have developed a vascularized cortical assembloid, which they find “improves neuroepithelial architecture, reduces hypoxia and apoptosis, expands cortical progenitor pools, and enhances neuronal maturation and connectivity,” relative to cortical organoids.