Submit your video now! Did you know? FENS launched a video contest on the occasion of the FENS Forum 2012 in Barcelona. Apply now to this video contest to win great prizes. FINAL DEADLINE: May 15, 2012 WHO CAN APPLY: Open to individual neuroscientists or teams of neuroscientists, who include at …
Featured article of EJN issue 35-9: Circadian [Ca2+]c Waves and Long-range Network Connections in Rat Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Jin Hee Hong, Byeongha Jeong, Cheol Hong Min, and Kyoung J. Lee Center for Cell-dynamics and Department of Physics, Korea University, Seoul, Korea The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) is the master clock in mammals governing the daily physiological and …
Wolfram Schultz (Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, UK) has greatly inspired the traditional reinforcement learning framework. What does Wolfram Schultz think about alternative mechanisms to prediction error learning rules to account for elements of reward-learning? To find out and read the Interview Comment of Wolfram …
A Comment by Serge H. Ahmed, Youna Vandaele and Karine Guillem (Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France) on the article entitled “Cocaine abstinence alters nucleus accumbens firing dynamics during goal-directed behaviors for cocaine and sucrose” (Vol. 35, Issue 6, p. 940–951, March 2012) together with a Response from Courtney M. Cameron and Regina M. Carelli …
NENS The Network of European Neuroscience Schools (NENS) represents over 150 graduate schools and programs across 30 European countries that offer Masters, MD and PhD degrees in neuroscience. To access the NENS program directory, click here. Are you a student in a NENS program who would like to gain international experience? The …
A recently published study in EJN from ML Mustroph, DJ Stobaugh, DS Miller, EK DeYoung, and JS Rhodes, about the effect of Exercise on Addiction has been highlighted today in The New York Times. Click here to view The New York Times article. Click here to read the original full-text EJN article.
Neural computational accounts of reward-learning have been dominated by the hypothesis that dopamine neurons behave like a reward-prediction error and thus facilitate reinforcement-learning in striatal target neurons. While this framework is consistent with a lot of behavioral and neural evidence, this theory fails to account for a number of behavioral and neurobiological observations. In …
Complex brain functions involve interactions between different brain regions and it is believed that alterations in these network connections may be involved in neurological disorders. In this review written by M.M. Shafi, M.B. Westover, M.D. Fox and A. Pascual-Leone, the authors address how the combination of neuroimaging with noninvasive brain stimulation can be used to …
Featured article of EJN issue 35-5: The Unfolded Protein Response in Models of Human Mutant G93A Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis T. Prell1 , J. Lautenschläger1 , O.W. Witte1 , M.T. Carri2,3, J. Grosskreutz1 1 Hans-Berger Department of Neurology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Hospital Jena, Erlanger Allee 101, D-07747 Jena, Germany 2Department of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, …
100 billion, right? We learn in school that there are 100 billion galaxies in the universe, 100 billion stars in our galaxy and that the human brain contains 100 billion neurons… How convenient! In a recent publication of EJN, Robert Lent et al. revisit some dogmas of quantitative neuroscience: Click here to …