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It’s been a while since we’ve done a lab holiday sporting event. Not sure why exactly, but I guess we just didn’t get around to it for some reason or another. Anyway, we usually like sports that involve heavy objects being projected 25-50 meters or so1. For example, curling or…
Intermittent theta burst transcranial magnetic stimulation induces hippocampal mossy fiber plasticity in male but not female mice PAPER ALERT!!! Tian Rui (Brittany) Zhang is a PhD student in the lab who has been studying the effects of various types of non-invasive stimulation (TMS, ECS) on adult neurogenesis, neuronal activity, and…
Happy to announce a new publication that has been many years1 in the works, “Sex differences in the spatial behavior functions of adult-born neurons in rats“, led by former postdoc Tim O’Leary. In this study, we inhibited adult neurogenesis in female and male transgenic rats to see what happens to…
The lab has 5 presentations to check out at Neuromatch! This is an exciting new venue for online scientific presentation, discussion and collaboration. Interactive talks are short (only 15 min) and supposed to be primarily Q&A, so come with your Qs! Here is a list of our presentations along with…
Hello everyone, this is just a quick note that we (i.e. Matt Cooke and Ricky Ma, with assistance from Brie Dungate) have released a new updated version of Pathfinder. The major changes are 1) the ability to import an increased number of types from various softwares, and 2) a window…
New paper by Desiree et al! Seib, Désirée R., Espinueva, Delane F., Floresco, Stan B., Snyder, Jason S. A role for neurogenesis in probabilistic reward learning. Behavioral Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1037/bne0000370 Abstract: Rewards are often unreliable and optimal choice requires behavioral flexibility and learning about the probabilistic nature of uncertain rewards. Probabilistic…
The Pathfinder manuscript is now available here on F1000 Research. Anyone who has run behavioral experiments knows that after running hundreds (or thousands…millions?*) of trials you begin to see patterns that make you wonder if something else is going on that your analyses are not capturing. For people who study learning,…
!!UPDATE!! This paper is now published at the Journal of Neuroscience and you can also find it here. Congratulations to John Darby Cole and Delane Espinueva, two former undergraduate students who led an incredibly detailed study of the morphological development of adult-born neurons. You might read this and think, hasn’t…
Today we have published a new review that was inspired by the controversy over whether adult neurogenesis occurs in humans: JS Snyder (2019) Trends in Neurosciences, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2018.12.001 ABSTRACT: Conflicting reports about whether adult hippocampal neurogenesis occurs in humans raise questions about its significance for human health and the relevance of animal…
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…