The Neuroscientist Comments

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Hariri AR, Goldberg TE, Mattay VS, Kolachana BS, Callicott JH, Egan MF, and others. 2003. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor val66met polymorphism affects human memory-related hippocampal activity and predicts memory performance. J Neurosci 23:6690–4.

Matsumoto K, Suzuki W, Tanaka K. 2003. Neuronal correlates of goal-based motor selection in the prefrontal cortex. Science 301:229–232.

Ohbayashi M, Ohki K, Miyashita Y. 2003. Conversion of working memory to motor sequence in the monkey premotor cortex. Science 301:233–236.

Santarelli L, Saxe M, Gross C, Surget A, Battaglia F, Dulawa S, and others. 2003. Requirement of hippocampal neurogenesis for the behavioral effects of antidepressants. Science 301:805–809.

Buffelli M, Burgess RW, Feng G, Lobe CG, Lichtman JW, Sanes JR. 2003. Genetic evidence that relative synaptic efficacy biases the outcome of synaptic competition. Nature 424:430–434.

Moreau-Fauvarque C, Kumanogoh A, Camand E, Jaillard C, Barbin G, Boquet I, and others. 2003. The transmembrane semaphorin Sema4D/ CD100, an inhibitor of axonal growth, is expressed on oligodendrocytes and upregulated after CNS lesion. J Neurosci 23:9229–9239.