Nicole completed her honors thesis, entitled “Characterizing Social Behavior in a Rat Model of Fragile X Syndrome”, for Special Departmental Honors in Biology.  Nicole is headed to her first choice medical school, Baylor College of Medicine, this fall.

Nicole Alexander won the CNS Award for Excellence in Neuroscience for her poster entitled “Characterizing social behavior in a novel rat model of Fragile X Syndrome”.  Nicole’s research was supervised by Dr. Alexandra Mably.

Chun-Ting Wu and colleagues found that place cells replay representations of locations to be avoided.  You may read about their findings here:

http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v20/n4/full/nn.4507.html

Chenguang and Laura comment on the importance of this work here:

http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v20/n4/full/nn.4525.html

The study is published in the current issue of Hippocampus:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hipo.22697/full

The lab published a new study in eNeuro showing that fast gamma activity is enhanced as animals learn new associations between objects and places:

http://eneuro.org/content/3/2/ENEURO.0001-16.2016.full.pdf+html

The lab had fun educating the public about brain rhythms at this year’s Memory Matters event.  We measured participants’ EEGs as they practiced enhancing their alpha rhythms!

Chenguang’s and Kevin’s paper on spatial sequence coding during slow and fast gamma rhythms is featured on the cover of the latest issue of Neuron:
http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273%2815%2901076-4

A video abstract describing the work can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5bW8EVSv5Y

Scientific American also covered the findings:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/multitasking-by-brain-wave/