Shaena Montanari

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Neuroscience Reporter at The Transmitter

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Plaque levels in Alzheimer’s mouse model depend on pedigree

2 months ago | 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...
Digitization of ‘breathtaking’ neuroanatomy slide collection offers untapped research gold mine

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.
Fleeting sleep interruptions may help brain reset

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.
Brain gene expression syncs between bonded prairie voles

Jan 9, 2025 | thetransmitter.org | Shaena Montanari |Angie Voyles Askham |Holly Barker |Charles Choi

ReporterThe Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Social behavior, Animal behavior, Behavioral neuroscience, Gene expression, nucleus accumbens, Oligodendrocytes Just as romantic partners exhibit more similar brain waves than do strangers when, say, drawing on an Etch A Sketch toy together, animal pairs also show neural synchrony during social interactions and cooperation tasks.
The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived

Dec 20, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Angie Voyles Askham |Claudia Lopez Lloreda |Calli McMurray |Shaena Montanari

ReporterThe Transmitter Senior reporterThe Transmitter ReporterThe Transmitter ReporterThe Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Animal models, Behavioral neuroscience, Evolution, History of neuroscience, Methods, Mouse models Neuroscience can sometimes feel like an old mouse club—but it wasn’t always that way.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute to limit eligible universities for Investigator Program in bid to spread the wealth

Dec 6, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Shaena Montanari |Angie Voyles Askham |Grace Huckins |Paul Middlebrooks

ReporterThe Transmitter Share this article: The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) plans to change the eligibility criteria for its prestigious Investigator Program, The Transmitter has learned. “!!Just learned that faculty from Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, and others won’t be eligible in the upcoming HHMI Investigator competition (2026?).
Armin Raznahan

Dec 6, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Armin Raznahan |Shaena Montanari |Angie Voyles Askham |Grace Huckins

Armin Raznahan is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and chief of the Section on Developmental Neurogenomics (SDN) at the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). His research combines neuroimaging, genomic and bioinformatic techniques to better understand the architecture of human brain development in health, and in neurogenetic disorders that increase risk for psychiatric symptoms.
Autism prevalence increasing in children, adults, according to electronic medical records

Nov 21, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Shaena Montanari |Jill Adams |Charles Choi |Claudia Lopez Lloreda

The prevalence of autism in adults and children in the United States has risen over the past 12 years, new research gleaned from electronic medical records and insurance claim data shows. In particular, young adults, girls and certain racial and ethnic groups saw the greatest relative increases. The results mirror a decades-long trend among children, as reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2023.
Rousing a ‘new era’ of hibernation research

Nov 8, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Shaena Montanari |Daisy Yuhas |Angie Voyles Askham |Jill Adams

In the Sterling Hall of Medicine at Yale University, a sign on a walk-in refrigerator door tells people to keep their voices down. Inside, about 250 ground squirrels are hibernating, each surrounded by shredded paper fluff and curled up in a clear plastic box. Shelves lined with these makeshift nests are bathed in red light that only the researchers can see, leaving the motionless animals in complete darkness.
Hakwan Lau

Nov 4, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Hakwan Lau |Angie Voyles Askham |Calli McMurray |Shaena Montanari

Hakwan Lau is co-director of the Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research and professor of biomedical engineering at Sungkyunkwan University. He is supported by the Institute for Basic Science in Korea. Previously he worked at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science; the University of California, Los Angeles; Columbia University and University College London. He obtained his D.Phil.

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Articles

Plaque levels in Alzheimer’s mouse model depend on pedigree

Digitization of ‘breathtaking’ neuroanatomy slide collection offers untapped research gold mine

Fleeting sleep interruptions may help brain reset

Brain gene expression syncs between bonded prairie voles

The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived

Howard Hughes Medical Institute to limit eligible universities for Investigator Program in bid to spread the wealth

Armin Raznahan

Autism prevalence increasing in children, adults, according to electronic medical records

Rousing a ‘new era’ of hibernation research

Hakwan Lau

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