Animal rights activist groups use a variety of crippling ploys to stunt research. Here’s a review of their tactics and what you can do to protect yourself and your research.

As neuroscientists, it is critical for the future of our field that we help lawmakers understand the importance of scientific research to human health and economic development.

Joseph Gleeson explains why he dedicated his career to studying and pursuing treatments for developmental brain disorders.

I work on malformations of cerebral cortical development. These are congenital abnormalities of brain development that are highly associated with epilepsy, intellectual disabilities, and autism.

Adolescence can be a rough and turbulent ride — not only for teenagers, but for everyone else around them. And the explanation for erratic behavior — anger, impulsivity, unnecessary risks, and inappropriate and suboptimal choices — has likely troubled parents for generations. Neuroscience first answered this mystery decades ago. Our brains, it turned out, are not fully developed at birth and undergo considerable neuronal maturation processes during adolescence until early adulthood.

Amy Moore, the director of research programs at Georgia Research Alliance, talks about how her PhD program developed skills she is still using in her current role.

Axons navigate in a complex environment with a multitude of external chemotactic cues that must be detected and effectively translated by a suitable growth response.

It is often said that academic fields are becoming increasingly segregated as specializations develop more jargon and become more detailed with each new peer-reviewed paper. However, the classes co-taught by Professors Otis and Sathian are unique interdisciplinary spaces where students across traditional disciplinary divides are able to wrestle with topics shared by the humanities and sciences: perception, imagination, and art.

Learn from the strategies and actions we’ve taken at the University of Louisville to make lab tours a standout part of the advocacy portfolio.

Fear generalization is a hallmark of anxiety disorders. Experimentally, fear generalization can be difficult to dissociate from its counterpart, fear discrimination. Here we use minimal threat learning procedures to reveal such a dissociation. We show that in Long Evans rats, an auditory threat cue predicting foot shock on 10% of trials produces a discriminated fear response that does not generalize to a neutral auditory cue. Even slightly higher foot shock probabilities (30% and 20%) produce fear generalization. AAV-mediated, caspase-3 deletion of ventral pallidum neurons abolishes fear generalization and reduces threat cue responding during extinction. The ventral pallidum’s contribution to fear generalization and extinction threat responding does not depend on inputs from the nucleus accumbens. The results demonstrate a minimal threat learning approach to dissociate fear discrimination from fear generalization, and a novel role for the ventral pallidum in generalizing and expressing fear. Significance ...