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Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have studied the impact of two brain areas on the nature of memory content. The team from the Department of Neurophysiology showed in rats how the ...

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have studied the impact of two brain areas on the nature of memory content.

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Hannah is an Assistant Editor at The Scientist. She earned her PhD in neuroscience from the University of Washington and completed the Dalla Lana Fellowship in Global Journalism in 2020. View Full ...

We next used UMAP to look for any additional clustering behavior between the inputs mapped in different brains in order to assess the similarities and differences between conditions (Figures 2G,H).

The lateral preoptic area (LPO) is a hypothalamic region whose function has been largely unexplored. Its direct and indirect projections to the ventral tegmental area (VTA) suggest that the LPO could ...