Seizures, trauma and many neurologic diseases induce damage to the hippocampus, which can result in deficits in spatial navigation, memory consolidation and depressive-type behaviors. Current drug treatments have limited effectiveness in improving sym . . .

A detailed protocol is proposed to efficiently label axon pathways in the zebrafish nervous system as an addition to a gross anatomy brain dissection component of an advanced behavioral neuroscience lab course. A strategy for evaluating the learning e . . .

In clinical trials, some patients deemed with "Alzheimer's" may have large loads of plaques and tangles, whereas non-demented control subjects may have the same degree of plaques and tangles. These patients, having been collectively referred to as Non . . .

Ketamine and dextromethorphan belong to the drug class known as dissociatives. They produce several behavioral effects, including dissociation from self and disruptions in learning and memory. Initiation of dissociative use is often in adolescence, an . . .

Vision is an important sense; it allows animals to create an image of the surrounding environment based on emitted or reflected photons. The sensory interface that transforms photons into electrical signals that can be interpreted by the brain is the . . .