Neuroscience
Spatial memory patterns mapped
Researchers at Cardiff University have mapped out how we store long-term spatial memory, shedding light on how our brains remember where things are within our surroundings.
Jun 14, 2018
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Neuroscience
Recording bad dreams in rats
A trio of researchers working at New York University Neuroscience Institute has recorded what appear to be bad dreams in the brains of rats as they sleep. In their paper published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, Gabrielle ...
Medical research
Female rats struggle to find their way in BPA study
Despite concerns about bisphenol A (BPA), academic and regulatory scientists have yet to reach a consensus on BPA's safety.
Oct 20, 2015
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Neuroscience
Research maze puts images on floor, where rodents look
A rodent in a maze is a staple—even a stereotype—of experimental psychology research. But the maze in the lab of Rebecca Burwell, professor of cognitive, linguistic, and psychological sciences at Brown University, is ...
Feb 26, 2014
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Neuroscience
Breaking habits before they start
Our daily routines can become so ingrained that we perform them automatically, such as taking the same route to work every day. Some behaviors, such as smoking or biting your fingernails, become so habitual that we can't ...
Jun 27, 2013
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Neuroscience
Mapping blank spots in the cheeseboard maze
(Medical Xpress)—During spatial learning, space is represented in the hippocampus through plastic changes in the connections between neurons. Jozsef Csicsvari and his collaborators investigate spatial learning in rats using ...
Mar 22, 2013
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Medical research
Neuroscientists find promise in addressing Fragile X afflictions
Neuroscientists at New York University have devised a method that has reduced several afflictions associated with Fragile X syndrome (FXS) in laboratory mice. Their findings, which are reported in the journal Neuron, offer ...
Sep 19, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Once again with feeling: Australian science tugs heart-strings
Do humans really wear their hearts on their sleeve? An ambitious Australian neuroscience project aiming to translate emotional impulses directly into music is hoping to find out.
Aug 23, 2012
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Health
Multiple pieces of food are more rewarding than an equicaloric single piece of food in both animals and humans
Research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, suggests that both animals and ...
Jul 10, 2012
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