It is now known that exposure to alcohol in utero produces a wide spectrum of morphological
and behavioural outcomes in the offspring, commonly referred as fetal alcohol spectrum …

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a global public health threat that continues to rise as the
proportion of the population over the age of 60 rapidly increases. Aging and dementia are …

Vestibular signals play an essential role in oculomotor and static and dynamic posturomotor
functions. Increasing attention is now focusing on their impact on spatial and non-spatial …

This review addresses a fundamental, yet poorly understood set of issues in systems
neuroscience. The issues revolve around conceptualizations of the organization of learning …

Physical exercise has been shown to increase adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus and
to enhance synaptic plasticity. It has been demonstrated that these neuroprotective effects …

Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) is the major intermediate filament of mature astrocytes in
the mammalian CNS. Dominant gain of function mutations in GFAP lead to the fatal …

Studies across and within species suggest that hippocampus size is sexually dimorphic in
polygamous species, but not in monogamous species. Although hippocampal volume varies …

This reprinted article originally appeared in Behavioral Neuroscience, 1993 (Feb), 107 (1), 3-
22 (see record 1993-24696-001). This study investigated the respective roles of the …

Navigation depends on a network of neural systems that accurately monitor an animal's
spatial orientation in an environment. Within this navigation system are head direction (HD) …

The role of limbic system structures in spatial orientation continues to be debated. The
hippocampus (HPC) has been implicated in encoding symbolic representations of …