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Researchers identify new dopamine signal that may help the brain steer us in the right direction

A Boston University-led research team has discovered a dopamine signal in the brain that helps determine whether you are moving toward or away from a goal potentially shedding new light on how the brain uses visual information to guide behavior. The study recently published in Nature examined behavior in mice to show that when they encounter visual cues, dopamine in the striatum located in the basal […]

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Kate Herrema

Building Mini-Brains, Advancing Big Ideas

Studying cortical organoids within a living organism enables Kate Herrema and her advisors – Professor Anna Devor (BME), Assistant Professor Timothy O’Shea (MSE, BME), and Research Assistant Professor Martin Thunemann (BME)—to model neurodevelopment. This work is also done in close collaboration with Assistant Professor Ella Zeldich (MED). “We can use [this technology] to study healthy human neurodevelopment, and also different neurodevelopmental diseases,” Herrema […]

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Photo by: Cydney Scott

BU Neuroscientist’s “Riveting Debut” Book Discusses “How to Change a Memory”

BU neuroscientist Steve Ramirez just released his debut book, How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist's Quest to Alter the Past–a mix of personal storytelling and fascinating science that dives into how our memories can be reshaped. Ramirez walks readers through experiments where memories were reactivated or even altered in mice, revealing just how “Silly Putty–like” and flexible […]

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