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TL;DR: Researchers rebuilt 10-second movie clips that mice had watched, using only recordings from about 8,000 neurons in each mouse’s visual cortex. The blurry, low-resolution results matched the originals fairly well, but this is not mind reading. Key Findin…
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Connexin 36 Loss Disrupted Thalamocortical Synchrony TL;DR: Deleting connexin 36 left broad sleep architecture mostly intact but disrupted fast brain electrical rhythms measured by electroencephalography (EEG), along with sensory-response markers often discuss…
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Researchers have uncovered new insights into how fasting alters dopamine signaling in the brain’s reward circuitry. Their findings, published in the Journal of Neurophysiology, suggest that fasted mice exhibit enhanced dopamine release in the ventral tegmental…
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