Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder with core deficits in social communication, including impairment of speech and language processes. We hypothesize that with such impairment there is a loss in coordination within ...

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Most people who initiate cocaine use do not develop Cocaine Use Disorder. Differences in susceptibility begin to emerge after first exposure to cocaine: some users discontinue cocaine self-administration after a single exposure, some use intermittently ...

The precise neural circuit mechanisms underlying reward-based learning of a goal-directed sensorimotor transformation remain to be determined. In order to begin to directly investigate this question, we developed a novel single-session learning whisker ...

Childhood psychotic-like experiences are linked to a higher risk of diagnosis of a psychotic disorder during adulthood (Karcher, et al., 2018)., first psychotic episodes typically begin in adolescence or early adulthood (Arciniegas, 2015; Bozzatello, et...

In rats shuttling between a variably placed landmark of origin and a fixed goal, place fields of hippocampal CA1 cells encode location in two spatial reference frames. On the initial part of the outbound journey, place fields encode location with respect to the origin while on the final segment, place fields are aligned with the goal ([Gothard et al., 1996b][1]). An abrupt switch of reference frame can be induced experimentally by shortening the distance between the origin and the goal. Two linked hypotheses concerning this effect were addressed: (1) that the persistent, landmark-referenced firing results from some internal dynamic process (e.g., path integration or “momentum”) and is not a result of maintained sensory input from the landmark of origin; and (2) that this hypothetical process is generated by connections either within CA3 or between CA3 and CA1, in which case the effect might be absent from the dentate gyrus. Neuronal ensemble recordings were made simultaneously from CA1 and the dentate gyru...

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder that often results in the co-occurrence of impairment of fine sensorimotor systems, as for example in comorbid deficits in manual-motor skills and speech production (Mody et al., ...

SfN is a global scientific community and we once again affirm our commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity.

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is pleased to announce the appointment of Sabine Kastner as the next Editor-in-Chief of JNeurosci, the most-cited journal in the field of neuroscience.

Jaime L. Diaz-Granados, the International Brain Bee’s new board chair, discusses the organization's priorities and structure as a non-profit.