Brains in briefs
Neuroscience, stripped down.
Brains in Briefs brings you short, digestible summaries of the latest published neuroscience research by graduate students from the University of Pennsylvania. We explain the key points of our findings and why neuroscience research is important. Browse the different sections and read what we're learning about the brain!
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Sex differences in VTA GABA transmission and plasticity during opioid withdrawal
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Liraglutide attenuates nicotine self-administration as well as nicotine seeking and hyperphagia during withdrawal in male and female rats
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Mindful attention promotes control of brain network dynamics for self-regulation and discontinues the past from the present
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A solution to the long-standing problem of actin expression and purification
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The age of reason: Functional brain network development during childhood
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Weakly correlated local cortical state switches under anesthesia lead to strongly correlated global states
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The calcium-sensing receptor (CaSR) regulates zebrafish sensorimotor decision making via a genetically defined cluster of hindbrain neurons
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Disruption of the blood-brain barrier in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome
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Reducing ER stress with chaperone therapy reverses sleep fragmentation and cognitive decline in aged mice
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Visual evoked feedforward-feedback traveling waves organize neural activity across the cortical hierarchy in mice
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