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Animal Behavioral Neuroscience

Animal Behavioral Neuroscience

  • Cellular Brain Repair for Parkinson's Disease

Cellular Brain Repair for Parkinson’s Disease: Is the Answer in the (Biomaterial) Matrix?

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Join Eilís Dowd, PhD who will highlight her lab's recent data demonstrating that dopaminergic cell replacement in the Parkinsonian rodent brain, using both fetal and induced stem cell-derived cells, is enhanced when the cells are transplanted in a neurotrophin-enriched collagen hydrogel.

  • Passive Avoidance Response in Rats FI

Passive Avoidance Response in Rats: Effects of Handling and Novel Object Recognition

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Storing aversive memories is important to survival, but learned avoidance responses decrease over time without reinforcement. Since little is known about the mechanisms behind this process, Bengoetxea de Tena et al. evaluated how naive rats respond to a learning and memory task under fear conditions in a recently published study, which we review in this blog post.

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