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  • Alligator Study Supports Convergent Evolution of Spatial Hearing
    Mar 19, 2019
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    Alligator Study Supports Convergent Evolution of Spatial Hearing
    Alligators encode a sound's location in space like birds but differently than mammals, according to a comparative animal study published in JNeurosci.
  • Healthy Fats Improve Nerve Function in Obese Mice
    Mar 19, 2019
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    Healthy Fats Improve Nerve Function in Obese Mice
    Swapping dietary saturated fats for monounsaturated fats reverses nerve damage and restores nerve function in male mice, finds new preclinical research published in JNeurosci.
  • Evidence for Ancient Magnetic Sense in Humans
    Mar 19, 2019
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    Evidence for Ancient Magnetic Sense in Humans
    The human brain can unconsciously respond to changes in Earth's magnetic fields, according to an interdisciplinary study published in eNeuro by a team of geoscientists and neurobiologists.
  • Multitasking Amygdala Neurons Respond to Sights, Sounds, and Touch
    Mar 12, 2019
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    Multitasking Amygdala Neurons Respond to Sights, Sounds, and Touch
    Multisensory neurons in the primate amygdala may provide the building blocks needed to process social and emotional information, according to new research published in JNeurosci.
  • Mar 12, 2019
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    Remembering to Forget
    Discarding information from the brain is associated with more mental effort than keeping it, finds a human neuroimaging study published in JNeurosci.
  • Genetic Factors Influence Human Brain Expansion
    Mar 05, 2019
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    Genetic Factors Influence Human Brain Expansion
    An analysis published in JNeurosci of brain scans from more than 600 children and adolescents reveals genetically-mediated associations between the size of evolutionarily novel brain regions and intelligence test scores.
  • Eye Contact Prepares Brains for Social Interaction
    Feb 26, 2019
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    Eye Contact Prepares Brains for Social Interaction
    Research published in eNeuro emphasizes real-time eye contact as basis for effective social interaction.
  • Ritalin Has No Effect on Primate Prefrontal Cortex
    Feb 26, 2019
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    ADHD Drug Ritalin Has No Effect on Primate Prefrontal Cortex
    In contrast to studies of mice and rats, new research published in eNeuro investigating the effect of methylphenidate (Ritalin) on neuronal activity in monkeys has found no effect of the drug on the prefrontal cortex.
  • Manipulating Gene Expression in Neurons With CRISPR
    Feb 26, 2019
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    Manipulating Gene Expression in Neurons With CRISPR
    In eNeuro, researchers describe a neuron-optimized CRISPR/Cas9 system for regulating genes in the rat brain.
  • Interaction of Taste and Place Coding in the Hippocampus
    Feb 19, 2019
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    So Close, Rats Can Almost Taste It
    A subset of neurons in the hippocampus respond to both place and taste, according to research in male rats published in JNeurosci.
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