March 25, 2024
Plasticity and place: Study shows a key neural mechanism of remembering locations
… have now observed how the brain’s place cells stave off inhibitory input in the process of establishing their tuning … connections, called “synapses,” of a specific type of inhibitory neuron. If the scientists disrupted the … In the mouse hippocampus, scientists engineered inhibitory neurons to express a protein that enables optogenetic control …