Shane P D'Souza

Traditionally a Goan Chicken Stew is made with pork or beef, but Shane D'Souza makes it with boneless chicken. She adds boiled macaroni, and the dish is cooked in a chicken broth that gives it a lovely flavour. Shane, who practices homeopathy, moved to Goa from Mulund, north east Mumbai, in 2019 and remembers the lovely Christmas stories from her childhood days in the city.

Abstract Photoreception, a form of sensory experience, is essential for normal development of the mammalian visual system. Detecting photons during development is a prerequisite for visual system function - from visions first synapse at the cone pedicle and maturation of retinal vascular networks, to transcriptional establishment and maturation of cell types within the visual cortex.

Abstract The mesolimbic dopamine system is an evolutionarily conserved set of brain circuits that plays a role in attention, appetitive behavior, and reward processing. In this circuitry, ascending dopaminergic projections from the ventral midbrain innervate targets throughout the limbic forebrain, such as the ventral striatum/nucleus accumbens (NAc).