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Heroin addiction linked to a "locally hyperactive but globally disconnected" brain state during creative tasks

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry provides evidence that chronic heroin addiction impairs the neural networks ...

Dopamine under control: Precision regulation of inhibition shapes learning, memory and mental health

For decades, dopamine has been celebrated in neuroscience as the quintessential "reward molecule"—a chemical herald of ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Researchers Develop New Technology to Map Neural Connections

Harvard affiliates developed a silicon chip that successfully mapped more than 70,000 synaptic connections from 2,000 rat neurons, advancing a new recording technology to complement existing neural ...
eLife

Barcode activity in a recurrent network model of the hippocampus enables efficient memory binding

The representation of individual memories in a recurrent neural network can be efficiently differentiated using chaotic recurrent dynamics.
News Medical

Optimizing a multiplexed cell-based assay for characterizing cortical networks and their responses to neuroactive compounds

This article and associated images are based on a poster originally authored by Zhong Yu, Parker Ellingson, Denise Sullivan, Ben Streeter, Austin Passaro, Stacie Chvatal and Daniel Millard and ...