A postdoctoral researcher in Marcos Frank's lab, she discusses her work examining astroglial biology in sleep and sleep…
Sushmitha Gururaj | September 29, 2020Recent breakthroughs in optical-based imaging in nonhuman primates promise to fundamentally advance our understanding of brain…
Jonathan Nassi and Eric Trautmann | June 17, 2021
Since this is my first blog post, I think a brief introduction is in order! I am currently the Director of Translational Science…
Jonathan Nassi | April 28, 2020
Believe it or not, this post was on our editorial calendar way back in January, and not even in our wildest imagination had we…
Sushmitha Gururaj | March 31, 2020
We're two months into 2020 and our beloved circuit neuroscience community has already served up so many treats that we're…
Sushmitha Gururaj | March 2, 2020
Optogenetics, Opsins and nVoke
Opsins are transmembrane proteins and a fundamental component of the optogenetic toolkit. As optogenetics actuators, opsins modify the activity of cells in which they…
Swagata Basu | June 13, 2017
Hippocampal Circuits Play Critical Role in Nicotine Seeking Behavior
Addiction is surging in the United States. We’re all aware of the current news on the opioid crisis, and at least one in every 10 American adult is addicted to drugs or…
Jami L. Milton | June 6, 2017
Must-Read Neural Circuit Papers in May 2017
We perused the journals for neural circuit research papers so all you have to do is click on the link below, if a paper interests you. The month of May started out slow…
Jami L. Milton | June 2, 2017
A Novel Neural Circuit for Birdsong Learning
When I applied to graduate school in neuroscience back in the day, most of my cohort didn’t quite know which lab they wanted to join, but I was crystal clear about …
Jami L. Milton | May 31, 2017
Must-Read Neural Circuit Papers in April 2017
I first began studying neural circuits in Ed Callaway’s lab at the Salk Institute, even before his group was doing viral tracing studies. To map functional circuits, we…
Jami L. Milton | May 4, 2017
Neuromodulation and Challenges Facing Translational Neuroscience
In the next video of our Neurovox series, we feature Kip Ludwig, PhD, Associate Director, Mayo Neural Engineering Laboratories. Kip runs a research lab in bioelectronic…
Jami L. Milton | April 26, 2017