Bradley Monroe Cooke

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Is there evidence from cultured neural networks that the capacity of memory scales with synapses or with neurons, or with, or anything else?

I ask this because I know of a manipulation that can add synapses to a cultured neural network, and would like to predict what the network's behavior would be.

11 November 2013 3,253 0 View

What is the current status of the glucocorticoid cascade hypothesis?

I'm curious whether there's a consensus as to whether chronic stress can damage the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, diminishing the efficacy of negative feedback and leading to further...

10 October 2013 1,615 9 View

What are the functions of the dorsal and ventral hippocampus: Are they so different?

A commonly heard claim is that the dorsal and ventral hippocampi in rats mediate different functions. They certainly have different outputs, but both dorsal and ventral receive input from the...

10 October 2013 2,838 2 View

Has there ever been a report of an animal congenitally incapable of fearing something that is "innately" fearful (e.g., a cat in the case of a mouse)?

I'm curious about this topic because I'd like to understand how the genome instructs brain circuits to appraise a stimulus in a species-specific manner.

06 June 2013 4,934 25 View