This month’s featured researcher is Luke Remage-Healey, who is a Professor in Psychological and Brain Sciences. His lab studies the behavior and neurophysiology underlying song learning in zebra finches. They recently published two papers. One in the journal Animal Behaviour, showed that viewing unfamiliar individuals of their own species, was a strong motivating stimulus for zebra finches. The other paper, which appeared in the journal eNeuro, showed the effects of intrinsic estrogrens on neurons in the bird’s brain that changed how the song was encoded.
Here’s what else is new for ‘ ”University of Massachusetts” AND Amherst AND neuroscience’ in PubMed. These publications appeared online in March. They are just a fraction of the neuroscience research that occurs on campus. You can click on the PubMed ID to find the publication.
1: Manoogian ENC, Bahiru MS, Wang EJ, Holder M, Bittman EL. Neuroendocrine effects of the duper mutation in Syrian hamsters: a role for Cryptochrome 1. Front Physiol. 2024 Feb 20;15:1351682. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2024.1351682. PMID: 38444761; PMCID: PMC10912188.
2: Kim-Spoon J, Brieant A, Folker A, Lindenmuth M, Lee J, Casas B, Deater-Deckard K. Psychopathology as long-term sequelae of maltreatment and socioeconomic disadvantage: Neurocognitive development perspectives. Dev Psychopathol. 2024 Mar 13:1-12. doi: 10.1017/S0954579424000531. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38476054.
3: Fernández-Vargas M, Macedo-Lima M, Remage-Healey L. Acute Aromatase Inhibition Impairs Neural and Behavioral Auditory Scene Analysis in Zebra Finches. eNeuro. 2024 Mar 22;11(3):ENEURO.0423-23.2024. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0423-23.2024. PMID: 38467426; PMCID: PMC10960633.
4: Chernoff CS, Hynes TJ, Schumacher JD, Ramaiah S, Avramidis DK, Mortazavi L, Floresco SB, Winstanley CA. Noradrenergic regulation of cue-guided decision making and impulsivity is doubly dissociable across frontal brain regions. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2024 Apr;241(4):767-783. doi: 10.1007/s00213-023-06508-2. Epub 2023 Nov 25. PMID: 38001266; PMCID: PMC10927866.
5: Santoro A, Marino M, Vandenberg LN, Szychlinska MA, Lamparelli EP, Scalia F, Rocca ND, D’Auria R, Giovanna Pastorino GM, Porta GD, Operto FF, Viggiano A, Cappello F, Meccariello R. PLASTAMINATION: Outcomes on the Central Nervous System and Reproduction. Curr Neuropharmacol. 2024 Feb 16. doi: 10.2174/1570159X22666240216085947. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38549522.
6: Su J, Byer L, Liang Y, Fox MA. Distribution, development, and identity of retinal ganglion cells labeled in the Sert-Cre reporter mouse. J Comp Neurol. 2024 Mar;532(3):e25606. doi: 10.1002/cne.25606. PMID: 38544361.
7: Fernández-Vargas M, Macedo-Lima M, Remage-Healey L. Acute Aromatase Inhibition Impairs Neural and Behavioral Auditory Scene Analysis in Zebra Finches. eNeuro. 2024 Mar 22;11(3):ENEURO.0423-23.2024. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0423-23.2024. PMID: 38467426; PMCID: PMC10960633.