Teenage training
Training in adolescence can offset cognitive deficits in adulthood in a proposed rat model of schizophrenia, reports a study inContinue Reading
Tag: animal behavior
How partners prevent addiction
Strong interpersonal relationships can help ward off addiction, and monogamous prairie voles offer clues as to why. Read this articleContinue Reading
Hyperactive clues to depression
A recent report in Nature links hyperactive synapses in the lateral habenula to learned helplessness in rats — a modelContinue Reading
Manipulating love and hate in the brain
According to a report in Nature, researchers have precisely identified and controlled neurons that mediate aggression in mice, even though theContinue Reading
A brain wrought without omega-3
A diet deficient in omega-3 fatty acids interferes with normal brain function, according to a report in Nature Neuroscience. MiceContinue Reading
Epigenetic anointment
Though queen and worker honeybees are genetically identical, they lead starkly different lives. A report in PLoS Biology finds thatContinue Reading
Getting specific with a mouse model of schizophrenia
Removing a subset of NMDA receptors in mice early in development can disrupt neural circuits and behavior in ways thatContinue Reading
Holy chiroptera! Meet the local bats
Like the neighbors I rarely see until July, bats are making their appearances during the drawn-out summer evenings here inContinue Reading
Something to crow about
Noisy, plain, sulking on telephone lines, or loitering around trash cans, crows are unremarkable at best, and nuisances at worst.Continue Reading
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