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Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·April 26, 2020·2 min read

Neuropeptide somatostatin enhances visual processing

The neuropeptide somatostatin improves visual processing and cognitive behaviors by reducing excitatory inputs to parvalbumin-positive interneurons in mice.

Featured Genetics Neuroscience Psychology

·April 20, 2018·4 min read

Gene Variant Increases Empathy Driven Fear: Mouse Study

Researchers have identified a specific genetic variant that appears to help facilitate empathy driven by fear in rodents.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·April 18, 2018·4 min read

Keeping the Excitement Under Control

Researchers have developed a new method to identify and monitor the activity of 'quiet' neurons.

Image shows the interpeduncular nucleus of a mouse brain.

Featured Neuroscience

·December 28, 2017·5 min read

Brain Research Points the Way to New Treatments for Nicotine Addiction

Researchers have identified specific chemical changes in the brain that drive nicotine addiction. The findings could lead to new treatments to help break the addiction.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·October 5, 2017·5 min read

Mouse Cell Type Census Reveals Gender Specific Brain Differences

A multiyear study reveals, contrary to expectations, numbers and ratios of three major inhibitory cell types vary stereo-typically across different cortical parts. Additionally, researchers identified 11 subcortical areas with gender specific differences in mice.

Featured Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology

·November 8, 2016·6 min read

Increasing GABA Activity in Depressed Mouse Brain Has Antidepressant Effect

According to a new study, experimentally increasing the activity of a subclass of nerve cells that produce GABA has an antidepressant effect in mice.

Featured Neuroscience

·February 4, 2016·4 min read

Brain Formation Pattern Shows Why Early Trauma May Leave No Clues

Researchers report many PV defects could have their origin, not during adult life, but instead in the SST templates that set circuit parameters in the first place.

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Neuropeptide somatostatin enhances visual processing

Gene Variant Increases Empathy Driven Fear: Mouse Study

Keeping the Excitement Under Control

Brain Research Points the Way to New Treatments for Nicotine Addiction

Mouse Cell Type Census Reveals Gender Specific Brain Differences

Increasing GABA Activity in Depressed Mouse Brain Has Antidepressant Effect

Brain Formation Pattern Shows Why Early Trauma May Leave No Clues

How Imagination Fuels Empathy and Prosocial Behavior

Dopamine’s Role in Learning from Rewards and Penalties

Taste-Driven AI Algorithms Enhance Wine Selections

Peptide PACAP’s Key Role in Alcohol Addiction

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