How the brain structure that produces norepinephrine also helps control visual attention
The locus coeruleus (LC) is a small region of the ... small brain structure like the LC impacts such an important function as ...
A neural compass for fear: Mapping how the brain distinguishes between direct and vicarious fear
A research team led by Dr. SHIN Hee-sup at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has uncovered a fundamental brain circuit ...
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Neurochemistry and Cognition Lab
The locus coeruleus is the brain’s major source of the neuromodulator norepinephrine, and is also profoundly vulnerable to the development of Alzheimer’s disease related tau pathology. Norepinephrine ...
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Two brain areas compete for control of memories, optogenetics study shows
The team from the Department of Neurophysiology showed in rats how the so-called locus coeruleus and the ventral tegmental area permanently alter brain activity in the hippocampus region ...