Date: Nov. 10, 2020 

Source: Guangdong-Hongkong-Macao Institute of CNS Regeneration

Author: Cheng Chen

Neuron, an international journal of neuroscience (Impact factor: 14.4) published the joint research results of Prof. Ren Chaoran and Prof. Su Guohui of JNU's Guangdong-Hongkong-Macao Institute of CNS Regeneration and Li Haohong of Huazhong University of Science and Technology online on Nov. 19. The research paper, A Visual Circuit Related to the Nucleus Reuniens for the Spatial-Memory-Promoting Effects of Light Treatment, elucidates the neural loop mechanism of long-term phototherapy intervention to enhance spatial memory.

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(Schematic diagram of phototherapy to improve spatial memory pathway)

This paper's co-first authors are Huang Xiaodan, a postdoctoral fellow at JNU; Huang Lu, a JNU researcher, and Dr. Wang Pengcheng of Li’s research group. Ren (lead contact), Li and Su are the corresponding authors. 

Link to paper: https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(20)30819-9