Shaena Montanari
Neuroscience Reporter at The Transmitter
Neuroscience reporter @_TheTransmitter | ex-paleontologist | MA @cronkite_asu | PhD @RGGSatAMNH | Tar Heel | Tips? [email protected]
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3 weeks ago |
atlasobscura.com | Shaena Montanari
Looking for fossils in Petrified Forest National Park can be a bit like gambling. When splitting rocks in the badlands of the Painted Desert of northern Arizona there’s often nothing inside. Occasionally, though, “you might win big and find something new to science,” says Adam Marsh, lead paleontologist at the park. Paleontologists have come up lucky recently, with the discovery of a number of new species in the area.
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4 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Shaena Montanari
21 hours agoIt may be one of evolution’s greatest tricks yet. Euphoria. Mental clarity. Heightened awareness. Reduced pain. Zen. These are some of the sensations you might feel after smoking a joint—or on a particularly rousing run. Indeed, the approximately three-quarters of athletes who say they’ve experienced …
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Feb 4, 2025 |
thetransmitter.org | Shaena Montanari |Caitlin James |Elizabeth Repasky |Sandra Sexton
Reporter The Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Methods, Alzheimer’s disease, Amyloid beta, Animal models, animal research, models, neurodegenerative disease Transgenic mice typically help to standardize disease research, but not in the case of a common model of familial Alzheimer’s disease: The amount of amyloid beta plaque in 5XFAD mice—so named for the five familial Alzheimer’s disease variants they carry—varies depending on how they are bred, according to a study published 20 January...
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Jan 22, 2025 |
thetransmitter.org | Shaena Montanari |Claudia Lopez Lloreda
ReporterThe Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Evolution, Methods, Neuroanatomy For evolutionary neuroanatomists who compare diverse animal brains, access to a gold mine of 500,000 histological sections and whole mounts is now only a mouse-click away. The R.
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Jan 13, 2025 |
thetransmitter.org | Shaena Montanari |Yves Sciama |Charles Choi |Claudia Lopez Lloreda
ReporterThe Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Sleep, Glymphatic system, locus coeruleus, noradrenaline, norepinephrine, Oscillations Interrupted sleep is typically viewed as a bad thing. Microarousals, for example—3-to-15-second-long awakenings—are associated with a number of sleep disorders. But these fleeting wake-ups may also have an upside, according to a new Perspective article published today in Neuron.
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