New genetic mouse model sheds light on the relationship between genetic predisposition and environmental triggers for OCD-like behaviors and paves the way for novel treatment strategies.

Looking back at ten years of eNeuro papers, this post features two papers published in 2015.

Prelimbic and infralimbic cortices balance their activity to regulate safety learning during a novel behavioral task that uses ethologically-relevant stimuli.

Co-first authors Drs. Krishnakanth Kondabolu and Natalie Doig discuss how they overcame barriers from COVID lockdowns to collaborate, bridging together multiple techniques to map out and describe a precise connection between the subthalamic nucleus and the striatum.

See the most-shared articles published in January and February 2024.

Researchers find that synaptotagmin-7 plays an important role in dopamine release during phasic bursts of firing.

A maximum intensity projection image of a sagittal mouse brain slice captured using confocal microscopy.

While discussing their co-first author paper about the discrete influences of food restriction and reinforcement schedules on reward-related behaviors, Dr. Maxime Chevée and Ms. Courtney Kim highlight how their mentor-mentee relationship in Dr. Erin Calipari’s lab positively impacted their futures.

Microsaccades, or small involuntary eye movements, provide information about object location during memory rehearsal.

See the most-shared articles published in November and December 2023.