ElectrophysiologyFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·August 26, 2021·5 min readOld Habit-Controlling Neurons May Also Help the Brain Learn New TricksThe delicate balance between learning new behaviors and expressing old habits is controlled by two different populations of neurons in the dorsolateral striatum.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceNeuroscience VideosOpen Neuroscience Articles·August 25, 2021·6 min readMice Can Learn Much Faster than Previously ThoughtMice learn 1,000 times faster when faced with unfamiliar environment tasks than when learning simple, yet unnatural tasks.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·August 24, 2021·5 min readHow the Brain Perceives and Remembers a New PlaceCombining virtual reality with neuroimaging, researchers identify how the brain perceives and remembers a novel place or landscape.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceNeuroscience VideosOpen Neuroscience Articles·August 20, 2021·4 min readSmells and Emotions Tug on the Brain’s HabenulaThe habenula relays external information, such as sight and smell, along with internal states associated with emotion and learning to brain regions that govern adaptive behaviors.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·August 18, 2021·4 min readHow People Manipulate Their Own MemoriesPeople influence the construction of past events on three processing levels, and that occurs unconsciously and automatically.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·August 17, 2021·6 min readEmotion in Stories Gets Our Attention, and Attention Affects Our MemoriesSelf-reported engagement in the narrative of a TV show synchronizes across people at the same points in the storyline. The synchronization was driven by the emotional content of the narrative. Neuroimaging reflected the similarities in brain activity synchronization at the same points of the story across the subject participants.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·August 11, 2021·6 min readMemory and Information Processing Affected by Isolation30% of people reported changes in cognition, memory, and problems with information processing as a result of social isolation caused by pandemic lockdowns.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·August 11, 2021·5 min readBrain Memory Signals Linked to Blood Sugar LevelsResearchers report on how a cluster of neurons in the hippocampus may directly regulate metabolism.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·August 7, 2021·3 min readSwitching System Used in Information Processing and Memory RevealedA new system within the brain uses for information processing and memory storage has been discovered. The findings provide novel insight into how the brain functions.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·August 4, 2021·3 min readHow Sleep Loss Sabotages New Memory Storage in the HippocampusSleep-deprived mice had increased activity in hippocampal inhibitory neurons, disrupting the processing and storage of new memories.Read More
FeaturedNeurologyNeuroscience·August 3, 2021·6 min readStudy Yields Tiny Targets for Healing Human MemoryResearchers believe they have found a cause of memory loss in epilepsy patients by recording single neurons in the brain.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·July 30, 2021·4 min readMolecular Insights Into Primate Hippocampal AgingStudy establishes a comprehensive single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the aging primate hippocampus and provides key information about age-related molecular signatures at the single-cell level.Read More
