Monthly Archives: April 2019

Reversing working memory decline in the elderly Posted on April 30, 2019 by admin

Summary: Noninvasive delivery of alternating electrical currents to temporal and prefrontal brain regions improves working memory and reverses age-related changes in brain dynamics in the elderly, report Reinhart and Nguyen in Nature Neuroscience (22):820–827(2019). They also report a similar effect … Continue reading →

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Do antidepressants restore lost synapses? Posted on April 15, 2019 by admin

Summary: “Depression is a mental illness characterized by episodes of a sad, despondent mood and/or a loss of interest or pleasure. This pathology affects nearly 20% of the population in the United States, and treatments are limited. Indeed, in the … Continue reading →

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Oxytocin-dependent reopening of a social reward learning critical period with MDMA Posted on April 5, 2019 by admin

Abstract: “A critical period is a developmental epoch during which the nervous system is expressly sensitive to specific environmental stimuli that are required for proper circuit organization and learning. Mechanistic characterization of critical periods has revealed an important role for … Continue reading →

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