The hippocampus mediates learning and memory, and since it receives its inputs from many areas, including the cortex and limbic system, it integrates vast types of information which can be paired with stimuli during learning. For example, a mouse can learn to fear a neutral environment if it is paired with an annoying stimuli, like
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The story of mental health management is a challenging one to tell. For sure, we don’t talk enough about it as a society, and we don’t yet know enough about the biology, the causes, or the best ways to diagnose and treat mental illness. While the true numbers affected are difficult to precisely determine, those
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It’s our final must-read list for 2017! These are the papers published in December that stood out as relevant to the community of neuroscientists studying neural circuits. Happy New Year! 1. Combined Social and Spatial Coding in a Descending Projection from the Prefrontal Cortex by Malavika Murugan, Hee Jae Jang, Michelle Park, Ellia M. Miller,
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