#locus coeruleus

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Reviews for Week 36, 2025

Disentangling sources of variability in decision-making. Duffy, J. S., Bellgrove, M. A., Murphy, P. R., & O’Connell, R. G. (2025). Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 26(5), 247–262.

Reasoning Goals and Representational Decisions in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience: Lessons From the Drift Diffusion Model. Khoudary, A., Peters, M. A. K., & Bornstein, A. M. (2025). European Journal of Neuroscience, 61(7).

The Locus Coeruleus: Anatomy, Physiology, and Stress‐Related Neuropsychiatric Disorders. Reyes, B. A. S. (2025). European Journal of Neuroscience, 61(7).

[dopamine-droplets]

Still not a morning person.

This is true for both the arousal most people think of when they hear the word arousal and the arousal that is meant here. Just ... don't bother me in the morning. Just don't.

[neurosciencenews]

Tiny Brain Region Responsible for Strengthening Important Memories Under Stress

A tiny part of the brain plays a big role in what we successfully remember during stressful or emotional situations, according to a new USC study.

The research is in Journal of Neuroscience. (full access paywall)

[evolving-science]

Does Alzheimer’s Really Start In The Hippocampus Of The Brain?

Where does Alzheimer’s disease (AD) really originate in the brain? A new paper published in Nature Human Behavior weighs in on a different area of the brain, the locus coeruleus, that could be related to AD. Theories of the condition arising from the hippocampus of the brain have been questioned in this study.

[neurosciencenews]

How the Brain Selectively Remembers New Places

When you enter a room, your brain is bombarded with sensory information. If the room is a place you know well, most of this information is already stored in long-term memory. However, if the room is unfamiliar to you, your brain creates a new memory of it almost immediately.

The research is in PNAS. (full access paywall)

[neurosciencenews]

Learning and Unlearning Fear: The Two Faces of Noradrenaline

Emotional learning can create strong memories and powerful emotional responses, but flexible behavior demands that these responses be inhibited when they are no longer appropriate. Scientists at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan have discovered that emotional and flexible learning rely on an important division of labor in the brain.

The research is in Nature Neuroscience. (full access paywall)

[starcsillag]

Set the focus, Cristian

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