Maternal immune activation (MIA) in response to a viral infection during early and mid-
gestation has been linked through various epidemiological studies to a higher risk for the …

Rationale: Sensorimotor gating of the startle reflex can be assessed across species, using
similar stimuli to elicit similar responses. Prepulse inhibition (PPI), a measure of …

The cerebellar vermis, long associated with axial motor control, has been implicated in a
surprising range of neuropsychiatric disorders and cognitive and affective functions …

Perceptual abnormalities such as hyperacusis and tinnitus often occur after acoustic
overexposure. Although such exposure can also result in permanent threshold elevation …

Distributed within the laterodorsal tegmental and pedunculopontine tegmental nuclei (LDT
and PPT), cholinergic neurons in the pontomesencephalic tegmentum have long been …

Brains are constantly flooded with sensory information that needs to be filtered at the pre-
attentional level and integrated into endogenous activity in order to allow for detection of …

Loss of synapses between spiral ganglion neurons and inner hair cells (IHC synaptopathy)
leads to an auditory neuropathy called hidden hearing loss (HHL) characterized by normal …

Memristors are considered to be one of the most promising device concepts for
neuromorphic computing, in particular thanks to their highly tunable resistive states. To …

Social play behavior is the most vigorous and characteristic form of social interaction
displayed by develo** mammals. The laboratory rat is an ideal species to study this …

Methamphetamine is a widely abused psychostimulant. It reverses transport through the
dopamine transporter, thereby increasing the extracellular level of dopamine in the brain …