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Kandel won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work Sea slugs are used in neuroscience research because of their simple neuro-systems Neuroscientists love Aplysia. They are a type ...

A recent study suggests that there may be a connection between food comas – feeling tired after eating – and forming long-term memories. This finding, published in the Nature Research journal ...

Using sea slugs as models, scientists someday may be able to design learning protocols that improve long-term memory formation in humans, a new study suggests. The researchers used information about ...

A team of neuroscientists at UCLA yesterday unveiled the results of an experiment involving snail brains that could radically change our understanding of how memories work. That is, if the rest of the ...

At any given time within just a single brain cell of sea slug known as Aplysia, more than 10,000 genes are active, according to scientists writing in Cell. Researchers also analyzed 146 human genes ...

Newly metamorphosed juvenile Aplysia californica (sea slug) raised from plankton larvae at the NIH-funded National Resource for Aplysia located on the Virginia Key, Fla., campus of the University of ...

Mature adult Aplysia californica (sea slug) raised at the National Resource for Aplysia at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. The NIH-funded facilitiy ...

Adaptive behavior emerges from an ongoing interaction between the nervous system, the body which senses the environment and provides ongoing feedback to the nervous system, and the environment in ...