Could measuring ultrasonic vocalisations help refine rat welfare?19 September 2023Listening to rats' ultrasonic vocalisations could help provide a method to measure the impact of potential refinements on rat welfare without needing to remove the animals from their home cage.
Long-term use of steroids could impair memory, study finds13 April 2023Memory impairment associated with steroid use has been identified in a new study. The University of Bristol-led findings, published in PNAS, show great potential for the identification of drugs that could be adapted to treat certain memory disorders.
Memories could be lost if two key brain regions fail to sync together, study finds21 March 2023Learning, remembering something, and recalling memories is supported by multiple separate groups of neurons connected inside and across key regions in the brain. If these neural assemblies fail to sync together at the right time, the memories are lost, a new study led by the universities of Bristol and Heidelberg has found.
Paper selected by Nature Communications as one of the most exciting in neuroscience18 January 2023Nature Communications has put together an Editors’ Highlights, “From brain to behaviour”, and have chosen to feature an article resulting from a collaboration between PPN neuroscientists and the Bristol Computational Neuroscience Unit.
