Although evidence suggests that the dorsal striatum contributes to multiple learning and
memory functions, there nevertheless remains considerable disagreement on the specific …

In humans, relapse to maladaptive eating habits during dieting is often provoked by stress.
In rats, the anxiogenic drug yohimbine, which causes stress-like responses in both humans …

Glutamate neurotoxicity has been proposed to be involved in Alzheimer pathogenesis, with
clinical data supporting succesful treatment with the NMDA receptor antagonist memantine …

The kind of fat in the diet modifies the profile of fatty acids in brain and also affects
aminopeptidase activities in tissues. Although modifications in brain fatty acids …

The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is strongly involved in cognition and behavior. It
receives input from brainstem nuclei implicated in behavioral wakefulness and …

The balance between corticostriatal glutamate inputs and mesostriatal dopamine afferents
converging onto the same postsynaptic spines of striatal medium spiny neurons in the dorsal …

We previously found that the glutamate release was decreased in synaptosomes from rat
cerebral cortex during the development of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis …

Previous animal studies have defined the ability to remember the details of what, where, and
when of an event as an episodic-like memory to be used to model episodic memory in …

In a constantly changing environment, the ability to shift from one learned behavioral
strategy to another more adaptive strategy is imperative. Research suggests there may be …

The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is critically involved in many higher cognitive functions such as
goaldirected behaviour, affective behaviour and especially working memory. In vivo …