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…
!!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…
My UBC Psychology page and Neuroscience links are up. Grad school application deadlines are approaching. I think it’s time to formally advertise that… I WANT YOU IN MY LAB! The lab’s goal is to identify the role of adult neurogenesis in memory and stress-related behaviours. We inhibit neurogenesis with transgenic…
Most studies of adult neurogenesis are concerned with neuronal age. Or at least they should be. This is because new neurons develop from a stage where they have no excitatory synapses to one where they have many. If we assume the traditional view that information is stored at excitatory synaptic…