'Third spaces for science: reimagining research beyond academia and industry' by Meike Ramon @meikeramon.bsky.social, Bigna Lenggenhager @bigna.bsky.social, Marte Roel Lesur, Dila Suay, Linda Baines & Amanda J. Haste www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'From chromatin dynamics to brain disease: Polycomb–Trithorax mechanisms in neurodevelopment' by Victoria Castro, Matthew So & Jamy Peng www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Check out the August 2026 issue of Trends in Neurosciences: www.cell.com/issue/S0166-... Cover article: ‘Ventral tegmental area circuits in defensive states: Emerging mechanisms of fear and anxiety’, by Joana Gomes-Ribeiro, Jacques Barik & Sebastian Fernandez www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Emulating the periodic table: A unified list of CNS terms and abbreviations for humans and experimental animals' by George Paxinos, Marshall Dalton, Kristie Smith & Mustafa Kassem www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Brain rhythms of depression: A predictive processing perspective' by Andreas Strube @astrube.bsky.social & Diego Pizzagalli @diegopizzagalli.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Ventral tegmental area circuits in defensive states: Emerging mechanisms of fear and anxiety' by Joana Gomes-Ribeiro, Jacques Barik & Sebastian Fernandez www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'A large brain adds new types of neurons: Molecular and functional signatures of spindle neurons in the human neocortex' TINS 'Spotlight' by Karri Lamsa & Viktor Szegedi www.cell.com/trends/neuro... discussing Ke et al., @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out the July 2026 issue of Trends in Neurosciences: www.cell.com/issue/S0166-... Featured articles & more: cell.com/trends/neuro... Cover article: ‘Enteric neuroimmune interactions in health and disease’, by Yifan Qu & colleagues www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'The neural basis of laughter' Fausto Caruana & Sophie K. Scott www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Enteric neuroimmune interactions in health and disease' Review article by Yifan Qu, Yuxuan Zhang, Shiming Zhou, Tao Yang & Coco Chu www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Epigenetic noise in the aging brain: tuning neuronal vulnerability to neurodegeneration' by Xinyang Yin, Houchun Zhang, Ru Zhang, Jianhuang Xue & Yujun Hou www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Check out the June 2026 issue of Trends in Neurosciences: www.cell.com/issue/S0166-... Cover article: ‘Regulation and function of interstitial axon branching in cortical projection neurons’ by Jakub Ziak, Sriram Sudarsanam & Alex Kolodkin www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'Cognitive functions of the GPe' by Kyle O’Berry & Aryn Gittis www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

'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...

'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...