This video shows rats choosing sequentially from four distinct trajectories in a maze while we record neural activity from hippocampus and cingulate cortex. Analyses of such neural activity led us to ...
Network Organization of the Human Brain - In this study, Steven Petersen and co-authors present a preliminary draft of functional brain networks in healthy adults. With resting state fMRI, the authors...
Emer Marguire, from Queen's University Belfast with "Why Do We Kiss? The Science of Smooching" - a three minute pitch from the FameLab Northern Ireland Final, an international science compe...
Feeding despite Immediate Metabolic Need - Christian Lüscher and Eoin O’Connor describe research that has investigated the role of inhibitory output from the nucleus accumbens shell to the lateral hyp...
The Role of RNA Binding Protein hnRNP A2/B1 in ALS
The Role of RNA Binding Protein hnRNP A2/B1 in ALS - What goes wrong during the devastating disease ALS? Gene Yeo, Fernando Martinez, and colleagues from across the country uncover the role of RNA bin...
External genital anatomy evolves rapidly and is remarkably diverse among animals that reproduce by internal fertilization. One of the most intriguing evolutionary transitions is the reduction and loss...
Synaptic Pruning in the Developing Nervous System - Using light and serial electron microscopy, Jeff Lichtman and colleagues assessed the how axonal branching and synaptic connectivity change with dev...
Precision & Plasticity in Mentoring. Angela DePace speaks about “Precision & Plasticity in Mentoring (and animal transcription)” at the Cell Press/AWIS LabLinks meeting on The Gender of Scien...
“Singing” Fish Rely on Circadian Rhythm and Melatonin for the Timing of Nocturnal Courtship Vocalization/ Curr. Biol., Sep. 22, 2016 (Vol. 26, Issue 19) - The patterning of social acoustic signaling a...
Personalized Nutrition/ Cell November 19, 2015 (Vol. 163, Issue 5)
Personalized Nutrition/ Cell November 19, 2015 (Vol. 163, Issue 5) - Doctors and nutrition specialists keep telling us what foods are good and bad for our metabolism and health. But does it work for e...