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Research Center on Animal Cognition
The Research Center on Animal Cognition (CRCA) is part of the Center for Integrative Biology in Toulouse (CBI Toulouse). The main goal of the CRCA is the multidisciplinary and comparative study of cognitive processing in different animal models, from invertebrates to vertebrates.
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Abel Bernadou joins the CRCA as a professor !
Abel Bernadou, recipient of a junior faculty position in ethology, joined the CRCA on September 1.
Renaud Bastien joins the CRCA as a CNRS researcher !
His project "Control of perception in virtual reality for real-time analysis and modeling of individual and collective behaviors" will be developed in the CAB team.
Remodeling the hippocampus for allowing Alzheimer's mice to remember others
This study led by Laure Verret (CRCA-CBI) and collaborators from Toulouse and Paris, published in iScience, shows that mice modeling Alzheimer's disease are unable to remember a conspecific, and that this is associated with anatomical and functional abnormalities in CA2. However, a single injection of the protein NRG1 into CA2 restores social memory ability of Alzheimer's mice.
Upcoming events
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Haiyang GENG - PhD defense
"Molecular analyses of visual processing and learning in honey bees"