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What happens inside your brain when you form a memory?
Kurzgesagt is a Youtube channel that breaks down science topics for a broad audience. They have great videos, both in terms of narrative, animation, and scientific accuracy. A few days ago, the channel dropped a video that addresses a neuroscientific … Continue reading
Posted in hippocampus, Locus coeruleus, neuroscience, Reviews
Tagged Kurzgesagt, Memory, Neuronal ensembles, neuroscience, Plasticity, Replay, Reviews, science, theoretical neuroscience, Youtube
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Hippocampal neuron and astrocyte responses to noradrenaline and natural arousal
Over the past few years, I worked with Sian Duss, a very skilled and talented PhD student in the lab of Johannes Bohacek, to dissect the role of noradrenaline release in the hippocampus. I’m very excited that the manuscript describing … Continue reading
Posted in Astrocytes, Calcium Imaging, hippocampus, Imaging, Locus coeruleus, neuroscience
Tagged Astrocytes, Calcium Imaging, hippocampus, Interneurons, Locus coeruleus, Microscopy, neuroscience, science
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Annual report of my intuition about the brain (2025, part III)
How does the brain work, and how can we understand it? To approach this big question from a broad perspective, I want to report on some ideas about the brain that marked me most over the past twelve months and that, on the … Continue reading
I never meant to study the brainstem
I was recently invited to contribute a guest post on Substack by Vijay Iyer – some years ago one of the main developers of ScanImage in the lab of Karel Svoboda, and more recently a strong advocate for ME/CFS awareness … Continue reading
Posted in Astrocytes, Brain machine interface, Calcium Imaging, hippocampus, Locus coeruleus, Microscopy, writing
Tagged arousal, brain, Calcium Imaging, Microscopy, neuroscience, photons, science, stress
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