Over the years, inhibitory interneurons have been posited as a major circuit element supporting ... in the CA3 and CA2 regions of the mouse hippocampus as the animals were awake and moving ...

Song and her team found that in mice, the medial septum-to-hippocampus circuit works to keep DG stem cells in this normal, low-activity state. It acts like a brake on DG stem cell activation ...

Therefore, we investigated how pattern separation occurs in the hippocampus, a key memory circuit," says Peter Jonas ... in the hippocampal network in mice and rats. Now, Jonas used these real ...

The researchers could also determine which memory cells were active when the mice were placed ... cortex and the hippocampus is critical, because blocking the circuit connecting those two regions ...

Another unexpected behavioral observation was that mice whose D2 cells were artificially ... team is to show precisely how the dopamine-hippocampus circuit that modulates approach/avoidance ...

“When the same circuit performs more than one function ... They investigated how the mouse hippocampus switches from encoding the current location to recollecting a remote location. Here, mice ...

report the use of a microarray strategy to define genes involved in the development and function of the mouse hippocampus. They used Affymetrix oligonucleotide arrays to screen for the expression ...

In a study published Jan. 31 in Neuron, a team of scientists at UC San Francisco and Columbia University Medical Center report discovering previously unknown “anxiety cells” in the mouse hippocampus.

Today (July 25), research published in Science provides the first clues regarding the mechanism for creating such faux memories in the brain, demonstrating that the manipulation of a specific subset ...