Brain & Behavior

Dr. Ida Rishal and Prof. Michael Fainzilber. Ping-Pong signals

A Sense of Size

17.07.2012

Biochemistry, Brain & Behavior

“Ping-Pong” signals in large cells help them assess their own length

Cell Reports cover: Illustration by Dr. Rita Gelin-Licht showing yeast cells mating through extensions

Yeast Side Story

16.07.2012

Biochemistry, Brain & Behavior, Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics

When yeast cells want to mate, they grow extensions in the direction of potential partners

money on the brain illustration

Losing Money, Emotions and Evolution

12.06.2012

Brain & Behavior

Mildly stressful situations can affect our perceptions in the same way as life-threatening ones

Mouse hippocampus containing two different types of channelrhodopsins. The green fluorescence marks axons entering into the hippocampal CA1 region, and the red fluorescence is expressed in the dentate gyrus part of the hippocampus (inverted V-shaped structure)

Shine a Light

11.06.2012

Brain & Behavior

Dr. Ofer Yizhar investigates the brain’s circuitry with tiny pulses of light

Cover illustration: the zebrafish stress response

Two for the Price of One

15.05.2012

Biochemistry, Brain & Behavior, Molecular and Cell Biology

A unique ON-OFF switch in the brain controls a main stress hormone

Neuron cover

A Unique ON-OFF Switch for the Stress Response

23.02.2012

Brain & Behavior, Molecular and Cell Biology

Both parts of the mechanism – ON and OFF receptors – are encoded in the same gene.

Prof. Jeffrey Gerst and Rachel Kama

Unraveling Batten Disease

05.01.2012

Brain & Behavior, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics

When the CLN3 gene is mutated, molecular traffic patterns are disrupted in the neurons.

(l-r) Drs. Hadas Lipid and Sagit Shushan, Prof. Noam Sobel, and Drs. Anton Plotkin and Elad Schneidman. Smelling good

Placing That Smell

04.01.2012

Brain & Behavior

The smell receptors in our nose are arranged according to the pleasantness scale.

Three-dimensional structure of the neurohypophysis in a zebrafish embryo (the nerve fibers and blood vessels are genetically tagged with fluorescent proteins). This brain area provides an interface between nerve cells (green), arteries (purple) and veins (red)

Close Encounters of the Brain and Blood

04.01.2012

Brain & Behavior, Cancer, Immunology, Evolution and Development

A surprising new function is discovered for the “hormone of love.”

Autocorrelation showing the hexagonal grid structures of grid cells

What Makes a Grid?

29.11.2011

Brain & Behavior

Why does a group of brain cells fire in perfect hexagonal patterns?

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