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At present, the research of psychiatric pharmacological treatments in animal models mainly utilizes the comparison of group averages in order to investigate treatment efficacy. Clinically, these treatments usually result in partial success rates. Specifically, the first line pharmacological treatments in […]

The term “stress” holds a negative connotation to it. However, in both humans and animals, a surprisingly high level of resilience is found, indicating that resilience is the rule and stress-related pathology the exception. Indeed, studies indicate that stress has […]

Meta-plasticity is a term describing the induction of plasticity in a system, which then alters the probability of inducing plasticity later on (Abraham & Bear, 1996). We have expanded the notion of this term, to include also Behavioral Meta-plasticity, to […]

At any given moment our brain is bombarded with stimuli from our external and  internal environment. Within this flood of information, effective memory systems, such as the hippocampus, are required to be able to identify the more relevant aspects, in […]