Publications by authors named "Meenakshi Kakani"
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- Episodic memories are structured around event boundaries, which are times of environmental change, requiring the brain to rapidly reset for effective information encoding.
- Norepinephrine (NE) is believed to help reorganize neuronal networks during these changes, but its role in the hippocampus during event boundaries is still being explored.
- Research using a new sensor to measure NE in mice showed that NE release coincides with these environmental transitions, affecting hippocampal neural spiking patterns and potentially aiding long-term memory formation.
Introduction: Binge drinking in adolescence can disrupt myelination and cause brain structural changes that persist into adulthood. Alcohol consumption at a younger age increases the susceptibility of these changes. Animal models to understand ethanol's actions on myelin and white matter show that adolescent binge ethanol can alter the developmental trajectory of oligodendrocytes, myelin structure, and myelin fiber density.
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