Development of robotic device for pain and somatosensory assays in rodents allows remote, quantitative, and reproducible delivery of mechanical stimuli.
Transient intrinsic properties of young neurons enable fast learning and support memory stability as the neurons mature, offering a coherent view of the function of adult neurogenesis in olfaction.
The first demonstration that a protein thought to function presynaptically (Rab3a) is required for homeostatic, activity-dependent synaptic plasticity of quantal size in central neurons.
Weaker performance in adolescent mice arises from immature cortical representations and cognitive bias, linking developmental changes in behavior with underlying neural coding.
