在日常生活中，我们可能都有过这样的担忧：病毒感染会不会影响大脑健康？事实上，神经嗜性病毒是传染性脑炎的常见病因，它们特别喜欢“攻击”神经元。以往，神经元在病毒感染时被认为是被动的“受害者”，但真的是这样吗？ 近期，发表于Journal of ...

A group of researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine led an investigation that offers new insight into the development of the human forebrain. The study, led by Changuk ...

Recordings of brain activity in budgerigars reveal sets of brain cells that represent different sounds like keys on a ...

The study relied on electrodes placed in the brains of parrots and songbirds and tracked the behavior of neurons in a region ...

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A new Drosophila collection of Parkinsonism models reveals early synaptic cholinergic projection neuron dysfunction, linking synaptic failure to later dopaminergic decline, highlighting a role for ...

How speech is produced and perceived in the human cortex Despite anatomical differences between species, the fundamental neural organization from the forebrain through the brainstem to the vocal ...

Brain activity in vocalizing budgerigar parrots showed a pattern that harkened to those found in the brains of people.

The courtship song of male zebra finches is a well-studied example of a naturally learned behaviour, and is controlled by a set of interconnected forebrain regions in the dorsal ventricular ridge ...

Scientists had previously identified the functions of two distinct pathways and types of dopamine receptors in the forebrain: the D1 receptors, which activate neurons, and the D2 receptors ...