Post Title: Professor in Neuroscience Post Status: Permanent and Full-Time [view position] Post Title: Professor in Neuroscience Post Status: Permanent and Full-Time Department/Faculty: Discipline of Physiology, School of Medicine Reports to: Head of Discipline Location: Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience Salary: This appointment will be made on the Associate Professor salary scale in line with… Read More
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Prolonged rote learning produces delayed memory facilitation and metabolic changes in the hippocampus of the ageing human brain.
Take-home message: repeated practice with material that must be remembered facilitates remembering in an aged population in whom there is expected to be a degree of age-related memory loss. This practice produces changes in the brain in structures that support learning and memory. Think of it like this: memory can be exercised via practice, much… Read More
Hippocampal dynamics predict interindividual cognitive differences in rats.
Hippocampal dynamics predict interindividual cognitive differences in rats. Take-home message: Individual memory in old rats was assessed using DNMS. We recorded hippocampal CA1 place cells as these rats explored a familiar environment; 27% of recorded pyramidal neurons showed substantial delayed onsets of place field activity. This age-related firing onset delay occurred under basal conditions; it was… Read More
