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·November 15, 2022·3 min read

Children Learn More Quickly Than Adults

Children have a rapid boost of GABA during visual learning tasks that continue after the training ends. In adults, GABA levels remain consistent. Findings suggest children's brains respond to training in a way that allows the to more quickly and more efficiently stabilize learning.

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·November 9, 2022·4 min read

A Clearer Picture of Developing Teen Brain

Study provides evidence of a critical period for neuroplasticity in the frontal cortex during the teenage years, a time at which risk-taking behaviors and mental illness risk peak.

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·May 26, 2022·3 min read

Synaptic Connectivity of a Novel Cell Population in the Striatum

Researchers characterize a novel neural population within the striatum that appears to be responsible for the interplay between acetylcholine and GABA.

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·May 9, 2022·4 min read

Gene Therapy Shows Promise in Treating Neuropathy From Spinal Cord Injuries

Gene therapy that inhibits targeted nerve cell signals effectively improves symptoms of neuropathic pain without negative side effects in mouse models of spinal cord injury or peripheral nerve damage.

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·April 13, 2022·6 min read

How Cannabis Affects Our Cognition and Psychology

Researchers investigate how cannabis can influence a number of cognitive and psychological processes.

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·January 26, 2022·4 min read

New Links Between Brain Over-Activity and Schizophrenia Symptoms

Over-activity in the hippocampus has been linked to certain symptoms of schizophrenia.

Autism Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·January 5, 2022·5 min read

Link Between Brain Chemical and Visual Processing in Autism

When GABA targets are activated, visual processing for people on the autism spectrum becomes more like that of non-autistic people.

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Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·January 2, 2022·4 min read

Sleeping Mice Show Busy Brains

Findings reveal the brain may optimize visual information processing depending on its conscious state.

Autism Featured Neuroscience

·December 10, 2021·2 min read

Human Brain Development Study Sheds Light on Neurodevelopmental Disorders

A new investigation into interneuron development sheds light on how disorders associated with neurodevelopment, such as autism and schizophrenia may occur.

Featured Neuroscience Pain Psychology

·October 18, 2021·5 min read

Brain Circuitry Identified That May Be Responsible for Negative Emotional Aspects of Pain

A new rodent study uncovers a neural circuit in the brain that appears to govern pain-induced anhedonia. Altering the activity of this circuit restored motivation in pre-clinical models of pain.

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·September 6, 2021·4 min read

Significant Proportion of People With Parkinson’s Disease Struggle With Instruction-Based Learning

Study reports a significant number of people with Parkinson's disease have precise deficits when learning from instructions. Researchers say the problems are associated with differences in brain function.

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·September 2, 2021·4 min read

Beyond Dopamine: New Reward Circuitry Discovered

Researchers have identified a new reward system in the brain. The study found long-range GABA neurons from the ventral tegmental area to the ventral nucleus accumbens shell are engaged in reward and reinforcement behaviors. This GABAergic projection inhibits cholinergic interneurons.

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