Our Year in Neuroscience
2015 was a great year for neuroscience and an incredible year for Knowing Neurons. With the launch of our 52 Brain Facts, Brain Books, YouTube channel, and Instagram account, we now have over 5,800 subscribers, 11,800+ likes on Facebook, and 3,600+ followers on Twitter! We are excited to bring you even more neuroscience research, technologies, interviews, book reviews, brain facts, infographics and so much more in 2016! Thank you to everyone who made 2015 a great year for neuroscience and Knowing Neurons!
From technological advancements in geneA sequence of nucleic acids that forms a unit of genetic inh... editing to furthering our understanding of memories, here are our most viewed posts from 2015:
10. Keeping Memories Fresh by Keeping Glutamate in Check
9. Seeing Invisible Colors: Part II
8. CRISPR-Cas9: Targeted Genome Editing
7. Memory Hack: Manipulating the Brain’s Memory Cache
6. Seeing Invisible Colors
5. Screensavers of the Brain: The Science of Dreaming
4. The Emotional Mechanics of the Robot-Human Interaction
3. The Neuroscience of Star Wars
2. Scale Invariance: A Cautionary Tale Against Reductionism
1. Ghost in the Machine: The Neuroscience of Consciousness
What was your favorite neuroscience post in 2015?
I just discovered this blog a couple of weeks ago, and what I’ve read so far is fascinating, with remarkably clear explanations. So this list will be fun reading to start the New Year well. Many thanks and looking forward to the “so much more in 2016” 🙂
Thanks, Bea, and welcome to Knowing Neurons! Hope you have fun exploring the site!