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Health and Science Reporter | formerly @_TheTransmitter, @Salem_Statesman, @COMatBU journo, and @UTKnoxville neuroscience & public health | she/her

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Up and out with Peggy Mason

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By Sydney Wyatt
| The Transmitter Verified
Freelance journalist Share this article: Tags: Empathy, Behavioral neuroscience, Mouse models, Pain, Rats, Social behaviors, Stress In late February of this year, a few journalists emailed Peggy Mason asking for comment on “reviving-like” behavior in mice. A paper had just been published in Science describing a mouse approaching a familiar but unconscious mouse and performing a series of escalating actions upon it: grooming, biting its mouth and finally biting and pulling up on its tongue.
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Spatial learning circuitry fluctuates in step with estrous cycle in mice

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By Sydney Wyatt
| The Transmitter Verified
The shape and density of dendritic spines fluctuate in step with the estrous cycle in the hippocampus of living mice, a new study shows. And these structural changes coincide with shifts in the stability of place fields encoded by place cells.
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The big idea with Diego Bohórquez

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By Sydney Wyatt
| The Transmitter Verified
Reporting fellow The Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Gut-brain, Community, Glutamate, Mouse models, Science and society, Sensory systems, Vagus nerve Diego Bohórquez keeps a first-edition hardback of the 1853 book “Memoirs of a Stomach,” written from the point of view of the stomach itself, in his office. He isn’t sure how he first became aware of the book, but it was mentioned in a 2015 New Yorker piece that referenced Bohórquez’s first published article.
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