Object recognition (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Object recognition

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Recognition of objects is a measure of cognition. Having become used to seeing two flowers, the normal mouse (with neurons expressing glutamate) spends more time exploring a new object (a mushroom). After exposure to methamphetamine or PCP (when neurons start expressing GABA), the mouse does not recognize the new object and fails the recognition test. When the change in transmitter is rescued (when neurons are returned to expressing glutamate) the mouse recovers the ability to recognize objects.

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Spitzer Lab, UC San Diego

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Must be used in conjunction with Nature Communications paper on neurotransmitter switching and drug abuse.

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