Tactile modulation of memory and anxiety requires dentate granule cells along the dorsoventral axis

Touch can positively modulate cognitive performance and emotional response. Here the authors demonstrate that enriched tactile experience improves memory and reduces anxiety in adult mice by remodelling the pathway from the primary somatosensory cortex to the dentate gyrus.

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Main Authors: Chi Wang, Hui Liu, Kun Li, Zhen-Zhen Wu, Chen Wu, Jing-Ying Yu, Qian Gong, Ping Fang, Xing-Xing Wang, Shu-Min Duan, Hao Wang, Yan Gu, Ji Hu, Bing-Xing Pan, Mathias V. Schmidt, Yi-Jun Liu, Xiao-Dong Wang
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Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/f4d3fbd4a0014022bbcfa204d1db18d2
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