At the recent Society for Neuroscience I presented a dynamic poster, a presentation on a large flatscreen monitor in the giant poster hall. I have seen these around but never had the opportunity to try one before. The project, led by John Darby Cole and Delane Espinueva (who have since…
Update: This work is now published in Hippocampus, here. The bioRxiv preprint is freely available and nearly identical in content. The Snyder lab’s first paper now exists (pdf here, on bioRxiv). Well, it’s more of a manuscript. Or should I call it a preprint? Does it matter? The thing, as the…
Those who know me know that I love timecourses. Everything changes over time and by characterizing these changes we can understand a phenomenon in its entirety, hopefully. We certainly can’t understand it if we don’t know how it changes over time! Despite all of the neurogenesis timecourse data I’ve summarized previously, there are still some…
One of the leading hypothesized functions for adult hippocampal neurogenesis in memory is pattern separation. Loosely defined, pattern separation is the process of making similar patterns of neural activity more distinct. This is clearly relevant for learning and memory since we have many experiences that are similar to each other…
The following data can be cited using this permanent identifier: hdl.handle.net/10779/7d8f2506fc029d16eeffd1350c42980a. You can also find a PDF of the complete data and text there. The purpose of these experiments was to determine the immediate and delayed effects of stress on anxiety/depressive behavior. For the open field and elevated plus maze experiments…