In a not so recent paper (January 2011), a nice report by Ann-Shyn Chiang group was published in PNAS. Authors use both pharmacology and genetic trick to show that serotonin is involved in an aversive olfactory memory phase called ARM. Serotonin seems released by the DPM neuron (together with the amnesiac neuropeptide?), and the information […]
Monatsarchiv für November 2011
Are autism and schizophrenia diametric extremes?
In this focus paper in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Crespi and Badcock argue that the psychiatric disorders autism and schizophrenia are opposite ends of a psychological spectrum. They claim that the natural variations in several factors such as sense of self, gaze, agency, social cognition, local versus global processing and others creates a spectrum at […]
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