Exercise Can Erase Memories

New neurons (white) integrating into hippocampus.JASON SNYDER Adult mice that exercised on a running wheel after experiencing an event were more likely than their inactive mates to forget the experience, according to a paper from researchers at the University of Toronto, published in Science today (May 8). The results suggest that the production of new […]

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Higher volume of ventral striatum and right prefrontal cortex in pathological gambling (2014)

Brain Struct Funct. 2013 Nov 16. Koehler S1, Hasselmann E, Wüstenberg T, Heinz A, Romanczuk-Seiferth N. Author information Abstract Functional neuroimaging studies have implicated an involvement of the prefrontal cortex and mesolimbic reward system (i.e., ventral striatum) in pathological gambling (PG). However, there is a lack of studies focusing on structural changes in frontostriatal brain […]

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