• Aversive memory formation in humans involves an amygdala-hippocampus phase code 

      Costa, Manuela; Lozano-Soldevilla, Diego; Gil-Nagel, Antonio; Toledano, Rafael; Oehrn, Carina R.; Kunz, Lukas; Yebra, Mar; Mendez-Bertolo, Costantino; Stieglitz, Lennart; Sarnthein, Johannes; Axmacher, Nikolai; Moratti, Stephan; Strange, Bryan A. (Nature Communications, 2022)
      Memory for aversive events is central to survival but can become maladaptive in psychiatric disorders. Memory enhancement for emotional events is thought to depend on amygdala modulation of hippocampal ...
    • CPT1C is required for synaptic plasticity and oscillatory activity that supports motor, associative and non-associative learning 

      Iborra Lázaro, Guillermo; Djebari, Souhail; Sánchez-Rodríguez, Irene; Gratacòs-Batlle, Esther; Sánchez-Fernández, Nuria; Radošević, Marija; Casals, Núria; Navarro López, Juan De Dios; Soto del Cerro, David; Jiménez Díaz, Lydia (The Journal of Physiology, 2023)
      Carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1c (CPT1C) is a neuron-specific protein widely distributed throughout the CNS and highly expressed in discrete brain areas including the hypothalamus, hippocampus, amygdala ...
    • Feeding the brain: effect of nutrients on cognition, synaptic function, and AMPA receptors 

      Fadó Andrés, Rut; Molins , Anna; Rojas Martín, Rocío; Casals, Nuria (Nutrients, 2022)
      In recent decades, traditional eating habits have been replaced by a more globalized diet, rich in saturated fatty acids and simple sugars. Extensive evidence shows that these dietary factors contribute ...
    • Gamma amplitude is coupled to opposed hippocampal theta-phase states during the encoding and retrieval of episodic memories in humans 

      Amour di Chanaz, Ludovico Saint; Pérez Bellido, Alexis; Wu, Xiongbo; Lozano-Soldevilla, Diego; Pacheco-Estefan, Daniel; Lehongre, Katia; Conde-Blanco, Estefanía; Roldan, Pedro; Adam, Claude; Lambrecq, Virginie; Frazzini, Valerio; Donaire, Antonio; Carreño, Mar; Navarro, Vincent; Valero-Cabré, Antoni; Fuentemilla, Lluís (Current Biology, 2023)
      Computational models and in vivo studies in rodents suggest that the emergence of gamma activity (40–140 Hz) during memory encoding and retrieval is coupled to opposed-phase states of the underlying ...
    • Tracing nerve fibers with volume electron microscopy to quantitatively analyze brain connectivity 

      Turegano Lopez, Marta; de las Pozas, Felix; Santuy, Andrea; Rodriguez, Jose-Rodrigo; DeFelipe, Javier; Merchan-Perez, Angel (Communications Biology, 2024)
      The highly complex structure of the brain requires an approach that can unravel its connectivity. Using volume electron microscopy and a dedicated software we can trace and measure all nerve fibers ...