Stephanie Bissiere and colleagues at UCLA’s Fanselow lab show how Video Freeze can test gap junctions & fear memory.

Entitled “Electrical Synapses Control Hippo-campal Contributions to Fear Learning and Memory”, this important paper examines how electrical synapses in the brain contribute to learning and memory.  Their work, published this past January in Science, uses Med Associates Video Fear conditioning system to show how blocking the neuronal gap junctions within the dorsal hippo-campus can impair context-dependent fear learning, memory, and extinction.  Read the abstract at www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6013/87.abstract.

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