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Dark matter of the bulb

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A study now shows that granule cells deep in the olfactory bulb exhibit wildly different response dynamics depending on behavioral state, suggesting they could configure network changes across behavioral states.

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Figure 1: A partial schematic of the olfactory bulb.

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Devore, S., Rinberg, D. Dark matter of the bulb. Nat Neurosci 17, 485–487 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3684

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