New faculty member studies immune system effect on the brain February 20, 2019 … thesis research, published in Neuron in 2005, identified a molecular pathway the brain employs in circuits between the …
Resolving a seeming contradiction, study advances understanding of visual recognition memory September 27, 2023 … 4 of the visual cortex and specifically might require the molecular activation of their NMDA receptors. The lab had …
Protein pair quickly makes memories of new places June 04, 2018 … disorders hippocampus synaptic plasticity spatial memory molecular …
Findings weaken notion that size equals strength for neural connections June 30, 2020 … preceded spine shrinkage. But the study published in Molecular Psychiatry adds specific evidence to support a more …
Brain networks encoding memory come together via electric fields, study finds July 10, 2023 … addition to neurons, electric fields affected the brain’s molecular infrastructure and its tuning so that the brain …
Brain’s ‘memory center’ needed to recognize image sequences but not single sights July 26, 2021 … SRP and visual sequence plasticity arise via different molecular mechanisms. SRP can be disrupted by blocking …
Dopamine primes the brain for enhanced vigilance November 07, 2018 … The threat of a cat is magnified by dopamine (shown in molecular form). Credit: Elijah Lee/Biorender.io Threat …
Study across multiple brain regions discerns Alzheimer’s vulnerability and resilience factors July 24, 2024 … reduced cognition, that share a neuronal circuit and a molecular pathway. Researchers compared Reelin expression in …
New findings reveal how neurons build and maintain their capacity to communicate July 20, 2022 … into “active zones” that are loaded with vesicles carrying molecular messages. The electrically charged calcium causes …