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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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Join us ! Looking for a team leader in Neuroscience and Animal Behaviour !
The Centre for Integrative Biology of Toulouse (CBI) launches its annual call for the recruitment of group leaders with, this year, a special attention to neuroscience and animal behaviour.
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.
Audrey Dussutour, CNRS Medal for Scientific Mediation !
Audrey Dussutour (CRCA-CBI) has just been awarded the CNRS Medal for Scientific Mediation, a brand new distinction awarded for the first time this year !