Sydney Wyatt
Reporting Fellow at The Transmitter
reporting fellow @_TheTransmitter | formerly @Salem_Statesman, @COMatBU journo, and @UTKnoxville neuroscience & public health | she/her
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1 week ago |
thetransmitter.org | Sydney Wyatt
Donald Hebb famously proposed in 1949 that when neurons fire together, the synaptic connections between them strengthen, forming the basis for long-term memories. That theory—which held up in experiments in rat hippocampal slice cultures—has shaped how researchers understand synaptic plasticity ever since. But a new computational modeling study adds to mounting evidence that Hebbian plasticity does not always explain how changing neuronal connections enable learning.
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Sydney Wyatt
A different form of synaptic plasticity How do synaptic or other neuronal changes support learning? This subject has been dominated by Hebb's …
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3 weeks ago |
thetransmitter.org | Sydney Wyatt
The red nucleus—a pale pink brainstem structure that coordinates limb movements in quadruped animals—also projects to brain areas that shape reward-motivated and action-based movements in people, according to a new functional imaging study. The finding suggests the region, like the cerebral cortex, took on a more complex role over the course of evolution.
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1 month ago |
thetransmitter.org | Sydney Wyatt
Last month, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), caused a stir in the science community when he announced that the agency plans to launch a research effort to provide “answers” about the cause of autism. “By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic, and we’ll be able to eliminate those exposures,” he said in a Cabinet meeting on 10 April.
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1 month ago |
thetransmitter.org | Sydney Wyatt
In late January, a new pain medication was the first non-opioid to gain U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in more than 20 years. The drug, suzetrigine (marketed as Journavx), works by selectively blocking a sodium channel. Its approval represents a milestone for basic pain researchers who have been trying to unravel the mechanisms of these channels for decades.
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