Archive page - 2023
New hope for improved antipsychotics
Jonathan Zapata | August 4, 2023Efforts to develop more effective drugs for treating schizophrenia have received a significant boost with a groundbreaking study from the laboratory of Jones Parker at…

Calcium imaging and optogenetics reveal the impact of adolescent stress on postpartum social behavior
Yasaman Farshchi | June 16, 2023Pregnancy and childbirth are extraordinary experiences that profoundly change a mother's life. But did you know that the stress a woman faces during her adolescent years…

Decoding calcium dynamics in the hippocampus during memory retention and update with a miniscope.
Mariko Nishibe | March 27, 2023How do we steadily recognize environments we are in while experiencing joy or possibly trauma? A recent publication by Dr. Kyogo Kobayashi and Dr. Naoki Matsuo from…

Hypothalamic calcium imaging data analysis reveals core differences in the neural coding of social behaviors
Peter Schuette | January 13, 2023In an innovative new publication from the Anderson lab at Caltech, ‘An approximate line attractor in the hypothalamus encodes an aggressive state,’ Nair et al. use the…
