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#brainstem — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #brainstem, aggregated by home.social.

  1. How does attention shape #AuditoryProcessing? This study shows that #attention enhances sound encoding only at the cortical level, not in #auditory periphery or #brainstem, so humans’ ability to focus on a single voice in noise relies on cortical mechanisms @PLOSBiology plos.io/4pY5L1f

  2. New insights into how hippocampal #MemoryFormation & recall is controlled by a disinhibition-based mechanism, supported by #hippocampal #somatostatin interneurons & their pontine #brainstem inputs from the #NucleusIncertus #PLOSBiology plos.io/3NkleaD