How stress hormone receptors alter the brain and behavior: Zebrafish study provides insights

Stress, the body's natural response to different types of challenges and daily problems, is an inherently harmless state ...

Scientists have learned about the effects of stress on the brain and behavior

Stress is the body's natural response to everyday difficulties and challenges, which can even be beneficial in the short term ...
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences - University at Buffalo

Exploring Neural Networks Behind Brain Communication

To study how a key chemical neuromodulator affects signaling in the brain's cortex, Garrett Neske, PhD, has received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the Whitehall Foundation, a nonprofit ...

A stress-related chemical could initiate symptoms of depression

Depression, one of the most prevalent mental health disorders worldwide, is characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Regulation Mechanisms and Research Advances of Cochlear Immune Microenvironment in Sensorineural Hearing Loss ()

Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is a highly prevalent sensory disorder globally, affecting over 1.5 billion people, with a ...
eLife

Synaptic Theory of Chunking in Working Memory

This valuable study links psychological theories of chunking with a physiological implementation based on short-term synaptic plasticity and synaptic augmentation. The theoretical derivation for ...
Nature

Somatic EPSP amplitude is independent of synapse location in hippocampal pyramidal neurons

Most neurons receive thousands of synaptic inputs onto widely spread dendrites. Because of dendritic filtering, distant synapses should have less efficacy than proximal ones. To investigate this, we ...