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Restoring long-term memory recall in a mouse model of Rett syndrome

March 15, 2022March 15, 2022hippocampus, long-term memory recall, OLM cells, Research, Rett Syndrome, SOM neurons

Researchers have discovered that diminished memory recall in Rett syndrome mice can be restored by activating specific inhibitory cells in the hippocampus.

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Hallucinogen drug LSD helps understand how the brain generates behavior

September 23, 2021September 23, 2021brain alterations, brain map, hippocampus, LSD, research behavior, visual cortex

LSD triggers changes in the brain that may explain the profound altered behavior associated with the drug in animal models.

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This brain circuit allows the feeding and memory centers to talk to each other

February 19, 2019February 19, 2019appetite, Brain, chromosome 17, hippocampus, hypothalamus, intellectual disability, Memory, NCOR1/2, neurodevelopmental defects, Research

It was not what the researchers were expecting to find when they set out to investigate how the protein complex NCOR1/2 regulates memory. “We knew

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From The Labs 

How infrequent seizures may lead to persistent memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease

January 10, 2018May 29, 2019Alzheimer's Disease, calbindin, deltaFosB, epilepsy, epileptic seizures, hippocampus, memory loss

Even relatively infrequent seizures can lead to long-lasting cognitive deficits in animal models of Alzheimer’s disease; how this happens, however, has been difficult to explain.

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Lunatic Fringe gene and the renewable brain

October 30, 2017hippocampus, Lunatic Fringe, neural sem cells, neurons, Notch signaling, Renewable brain

The discovery that the brain can generate new cells – about 700 new neurons each day – has triggered investigations to uncover how this process

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From The Labs 

‘Silent seizures’ discovered in patients with Alzheimer’s disease

July 10, 2017Alzheimer's Disease, deep brain, eeg, epilepsy, epileptic seizures, hippocampus, nonconvulsive seizures, seizures

Deep in the brains of two patients with Alzheimer’s disease, the main memory structure, the hippocampus, displays episodic seizure-like electrical activity. These nonconvulsive hippocampal seizures

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A new experimental system sheds light on how memory loss may occur

August 26, 2016Alzheimer's Disease, entorhinal cortex, hippocampus, ivermectin, Memory, Neuroscience

Two interconnected brain areas – the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex – help us to know where we are and to remember it later.  It

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