Knowing Neurons

Dialogues in Music Therapy and Social Neuroscience: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Clinical Progress

April 13, 2021 Filippo Pasqualitto 0 Comments Development, EEG, Emotion, fMRI, Music, Music Therapy, Psychiatric Disorders, Social Neuroscience, Therapy

In his book “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain”, the neurologist Oliver Sacks stated that music can “calm us, animate us, comfort us, thrill us, or serve to organize… Read more

Infographics

A Close up Look Infographic – #4 – Neural Networks

April 8, 2021April 8, 2021 Gil Torten 0 Comments Infographic, Machine, neural network, Neuroscience, SciComm, Vision, visual system

Did you know that neural networks and some parts of the visual system work in a very similar way? Learn about the similarities between the two systems in Gil Torten’s… Read more

Big Ideas Sensation and Perception

Empathy: Building Social Interactions By Linking Our Emotional Lives

March 29, 2021March 31, 2021 Miguel Omar Belhouk Herrero 0 Comments Cognition, Consciousness, Emotion, Emotions, Empathy, fMRI, Mentalizing, Mirror Neurons

As social beings, humans have the ability to adapt their behavior to fit their social context. Whether we are meeting new classmates, conducting a job interview or helping a friend… Read more

Did You Know? Mental Health Neuro Primer Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Neuro Primer: Addiction Basics

March 22, 2021 Elizabeth Burnette 0 Comments Addiction, Alcohol, Behavioral Neuroscience, Hippocampus, Nucleus accumbens, Tolerance, Withdrawal

From alcohol to opioids to cocaine, most of us are familiar with addictive substances. But how does someone develop a substance use disorder (SUD), the most severe category of which… Read more

Big Ideas Brain Basics Did You Know?

The Blood Brain Barrier – Is it Really All it’s Described to Be?

March 15, 2021 Abdullah Iqbal 0 Comments Blood, Blood-brain barrier, Cell communication, Pathogens, The blood-brain barrier in health and chronic neurodegenerative disorders.

One of the mantras in neuroscience is that the blood brain barrier (BBB) protects the brain from invaders. But is that really the case? Research shows that lots of things… Read more

Brain Books

Book Review: The Spike

March 7, 2021March 7, 2021 Sean Noah 0 Comments Brain activity, Computational, Electricity, neural network, Retina, Spike, Synaptic function

Recently I asked one of my faculty advisors if he would ever write a popular science book. He’s a bestselling author in his own right, having written a textbook that… Read more

Infographics

A Close up Look Infographic – #3 – Chameleon vision/Focusing

February 25, 2021February 25, 2021 Gil Torten 3 Comments animal vision, chameleon, eye movement, Eyes, Infographic, Neuroscience, SciComm, Science, Vision

How do our eyes focus on moving objects and chameleon eyes zoom into their environment? Learn about the differences between the human eye and chameleon eyes in our latest infographic.… Read more

Big Ideas Brain Basics Did You Know? Sensation and Perception

Invisible Modulators of Fear: How the Gut Microbiome Alters Fear Extinction

February 21, 2021February 21, 2021 Mariella Careaga 0 Comments Fear, Fear conditioning, Fear Extinction, gut microbiome, Medial Prefrontal Cortex, Metabolism, microbiome

Learning to avoid a threat as well as knowing when something is no longer dangerous is crucial for an organism’s survival. Being able to shake off fearful memories after a… Read more

Brain Basics Collaborations Did You Know? Interviews Neuro News Uncategorized

Sex Differences in the Neural Control of Thermogenesis: An Interview with Dr. Stephanie Correa

February 15, 2021February 18, 2021 Arielle Hogan 0 Comments Estrogen, Hormone, Hypothalamus, Metabolism, Nature, Sex differences, Temperature

Understanding the complexity of the human mind and body is a feat that some would say is impossible. While the scientific community forges on despite the immense expanse of the… Read more

Joel's Pick

The rhythm of detachment: how a brain oscillation dissociates people from themselves and the world

January 17, 2021February 18, 2021 Joel Frohlich 1 Comment Deep Brain Stimulation, Dissociation, Ketamine, mental health, Neural Oscillations, Optogenetics, Oscillation, Pain

You don’t need to be a therapist to know common clinical terms like anxiety and depression. But terms like derealization and depersonalization remain strangely esoteric, evading popular discussions of mental… Read more

Infographics

A Close Up Look Infographic – #2 – Rods and Cones

January 11, 2021February 25, 2021 Gil Torten 0 Comments Color Vision, Cones, Eye, Opsin, Vision, Visual cortex

How do rods and cones work in the eyes of the animals around us? Learn about the differences between the human eye and the one of the bee, snake… Read more

Big Ideas Brain Basics Did You Know? Mental Health Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Uncategorized

The Nocebo Effect

January 3, 2021February 18, 2021 Elizabeth Burnette 0 Comments Bias, Classical Conditioning, Drug, negative symptoms, Placebo effect, Treatment

Most of us have heard of the placebo effect – the phenomenon in which patients experience improvements in health simply due to their belief in the efficacy of a medical… Read more