Publications by authors named "J S Bains"

Emotions and behavior can be affected by social chemosignals from conspecifics. For instance, olfactory signals from stressed individuals induce stress-like physiological and synaptic changes in naïve partners. Direct stress also alters cognition, but the impact of socially transmitted stress on memory processes is currently unknown.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • * Research indicates that activation patterns in the BLA differ based on the type of stimulus, with aversive stimuli causing stronger activation in specific medial areas of the BLA and stressful stimuli leading to longer activation durations.
  • * The study highlights the need for further research into the molecular and circuit-level specifics of the BLA's activation during stress, with norepinephrine playing a key role in enhancing neuron responses in these situations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Significance: Motion artifacts in the signals recorded during optical fiber-based measurements can lead to misinterpretation of data. In this work, we address this problem during rodent experiments and develop a motion artifacts correction (MAC) algorithm for single-fiber system (SFS) hemodynamics measurements from the brains of rodents.

Aim: (i) To distinguish the effect of motion artifacts in the SFS signals.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

The single-stranded RNA genome of SARS-CoV-2 is highly structured. Numerous helical stem-loop structures interrupted by mismatch motifs are present in the functionally important 5'- and 3'-UTRs. These mismatches modulate local helical geometries and feature unusual arrays of hydrogen bonding donor and acceptor groups.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF