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If we want to understand how the brain develops and learns, neuroscientist Dr. Hyungbae Kwon sees we have to look at the scale of interacting circuits. To do so, Hyungbae’s lab at Max Planck Florida (the lab’s moving to Johns Hopkins University in 2019) explores the way experience affects neural circuits using state-of-the-art tools, like
The Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI), a global leader in neural circuit research based in Jupiter, FL and Inscopix, Inc., a pioneering neurotechnology company based in Mountain View, CA announced a new partnership to catalyze MPFI’s neural circuit research with Inscopix’s platform and capabilities for mapping brain circuit activity. Beyond empowering the researcher
Happy New Year! Before we get too far into 2019, check out our must-read list of papers relevant to the circuit neuroscience community published in December. See if there are any papers you may have missed in all the holiday hubbub. Cheers! 1. Stochastic synaptic plasticity underlying compulsion in a model of addiction by Vincent
Every month we pick the must-read research papers of relevance to the circuit neuroscience community. In November, there was again an impressive plethora of papers to peruse across journals, and we highlight 11 of them here. From dopamine circuits in aversion to amygdala → hippocampus circuits in mood, happy reading! 1. Dopamine enhances signal-to-noise ratio
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Welcome to the Inscopix podcast series! Here we talk about the latest in neuroscience and neurotechnology with leaders in the field. I’m your host Dr. Jami Milton, and I’m super honored to have interviewed Dr. Kafui Dzirasa. He’s an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Neurobiology and Biomedical Engineering at the Duke University School