NMDA Receptor Signaling Critical for Habit Formation
NMDA Receptor Signaling Critical for Habit Formation - How does the brain form habits? Joe Tsien and colleagues explore the cellular mechanisms underlying habit formation and find that NMDA receptors ...
Auditory Stimulus Selection in Rodents and the Cocktail Party Problem
We must often focus on important sounds in our environment while ignoring others—sometimes called the "cocktail party problem." In this video, Dr. Chris Rodgers explains how rats were traine...
In this video abstract, Schobel et al. describe progressive functional and structural abnormalities of the hippocampus observed in MRI studies of patients who progress to psychosis and mice exposed to...
In this study, Muto et al. visualized brain activity of a zebrafish larva while it visually perceived a swimming paramecium. This study demonstrates that the visual world is indeed mapped onto a part ...
In this video, Ira Espuny-Camacho and Pierre Vanderhaeghen describe how human pluripotent stem cells can be turned into cortical pyramidal neurons, mimicking key aspects of human corticogenesis. Most ...