Contributed by Kevin Pang and Heidi Smith, Bowling Green State University, Dept Psychology, Bowling Green, Ohio Hypocretin (or orexin) neurons are located in the hypothalamus and have been implicated in various functions including sleep, arousal and feeding. One area receiving dense hypocretin projections and expressing hypocretin-2 receptors (H-2r) is the medial septum (MS), an area […]

Contributed by Lesley E. Northrop, Nicole Cameron and Mary Erskine, Department of Biology, Boston University The posterodorsal medial amygdala (MePD) is involved in processing the information from genito- sensory stimuli which is needed for mating-induced pseudopregnancy. The amygdala complex is known to be involved in memory storage and consolidation, processes known to be influenced by

Contributed by ATS’s 2004 Society for Neuroscience Poster of the Year Award Winner:Michelle Pearson, Purdue Pharma, Discovery Research, 6 Cedar Brook Drive, Cranbury NJ 08540 Neuropathic pain results in hyperalgesia and allodynia. It has been proposed that sprouting of myelinated touch-responsive Aβ-fibers into the innervation territory of pain-sensitive C-fibers in the spinal cord contributes to