Bidirectional regulation of innate and learned behaviors that rely on frequency discrimination by cortical inhibitory neurons.

For: All,

This mouse study shows that a specific type of 'braking' brain cell (parvalbumin inhibitory neuron) in the auditory cortex plays a key role in helping animals tell apart different sound frequencies, which may help families understand some of the hearing and auditory processing challenges often seen in individuals with 16p11.2 differences.