Ryan Jones, Author at Knowing Neurons

Navigating a 3D World

May 29, 2014March 5, 2017 Ryan Jones 2 Comments 2013, 3D, Bat, Hippocampus, Map, Place Cell, Representation of three-dimensional space in the hippocampus of flying bats, Science, Three-dimensional, Two-dimensional, Ulanovsky, Weizmann Institute of Science, Yartsev

The brain has an amazing ability to form internal maps of the world around it. Knowing Neurons has previously written several articles about place cells in the hippocampus and how… Read more

Brain Basics Did You Know? Learning and Memory

Resolving New Memories: Adult Neurogenesis

February 5, 2014March 5, 2017 Ryan Jones 3 Comments 1998, 2012, Adult neurogenesis, behavioral pattern separation, Cell, contextual fear conditioning, Dentate gyrus, Eriksson, Fred Gage, Hippocampus, Learning, Memory, Memory pattern separation, Nakashiba, Nature, Nature Medicine, Neural progenitor cell, Pattern separation, Susumo Tonegawa, van Praag

When I was young, my family lived in an old farmhouse. It was cozy and had a lot of character but, at over 150 years old, it showed its age.… Read more

Brain Basics Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Sensation and Perception

What is Pain?

September 23, 2013March 5, 2017 Ryan Jones 1 Comment 2013, Action Potential, Burn, C-fiber, Chronic, Dorsal Root Ganglia, Gadotti, Huang, Jan, Nature Neuroscience, Neuropathic, Pain, Peripheral Neuropathic Pain, Phantom Limb Syndrome, TMEM16C, TMEM16C cuts pain no SLACK, TMEM16C facilitates Na+-activated K+ currents in rat sensory neurons and regulates pain processing, Zamponi

For many, pain is an indescribably awful feeling that causes suffering and emotional distress. It is a sensation that is so unpleasant – so unbearable – that most people will… Read more

Brain Basics Did You Know? Learning and Memory

What a Coincidence!

May 30, 2013March 5, 2017 Ryan Jones 3 Comments Alzheimer, Alzheimer’s disease, Brain, Coincidence, Donald Hebb, Health, Hebbian, Learning, Long-term potentiation, LTP, Magnesium, Memory, Mg2+, Neuron, Neuroscience, NMDA, NMDA receptor

Coincidence is a peculiar thing. We typically think of a coincidence as the occurrence of two events that happen to occur at the same time, but that have no underlying… Read more

Aging Learning and Memory Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Magnesium Supplement to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease

May 27, 2013March 5, 2017 Ryan Jones 6 Comments AD, AD-mice, Age, Aging, Alzheimer's, Alzheimer’s disease, and Synaptic Plasticity in the Infralimbic Prefrontal Cortex and Lateral Amygdala, dementia, Effects of Elevation of Brain Magnesium on Fear Conditioning, Elderly, Elevation of Brain Magnesium Prevents and Reverses Cognitive Deficits and Synaptic Loss in Alzheimer's Disease Mouse Model, Emotion, Enhancement of Learning and Memory by Elevating Brain Magnesium, Enhancement of Synaptic Plasticity through Chronically Reduced Ca2+ Flux during Uncorrelated Activity, Fear Extinction, Journal of Neuroscience, Learning, Liu, Magnesium, Memory, Mg2+, MIT, Neuron, NMDA, NMDA receptors, Old, Slutsky, Supplement, Synapse, Synaptic function, Synaptic loss

The human brain contains roughly eighty-six billion (~10^10) neurons, each of which forms approximately ten thousand (10^4) synaptic connections with other neurons. Therefore, on average, there are one hundred trillion… Read more

Neuro News Neuroscience Technologies

CLARITY

May 6, 2013March 5, 2017 Ryan Jones 1 Comment

We live in a three dimensional world. X, Y and Z are the coordinates that define the space in which we occupy and are the boundaries that define the natural… Read more

Did You Know? Learning and Memory Movement Sensation and Perception

Forming Memories, One Neuron at a Time

April 10, 2013March 5, 2017 Ryan Jones 5 Comments Amnesia, Dostrovsky, Epilepsy, Hippocampus, Memory, Mouse, Neurons, O'Keefe, Place Cell, Place Field, Schnitzer, Space, Stanford, University College London

On Monday, Knowing Neurons highlighted a recent research article that described a new miniature microscope that was small enough to sit on a mouse’s head and light enough to allow… Read more

Learning and Memory Movement Neuro News Neuroscience Technologies

You Are Here: Mapping The World With Neurons

April 8, 2013March 5, 2017 Ryan Jones 7 Comments 2013, fluoresce, Here, Hippocampus, Location, Map, Mapping, Maze, Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, Optogenetics, Place, Place Cell, Schnitzer, Stanford, World

“You are here.” It’s the phrase that you’ll find on almost any map, punctuated with the ubiquitous oversized arrow. It is the salient mark in a sea of confusing lines,… Read more

Neuroscience Technologies

What do single cell green algae have to do with the state of the art of neuroscience?

February 8, 2013March 5, 2017 Ryan Jones 5 Comments Algae, Boyden, Channelrhodopsin, Deisseroth, genetically targeted optical control of neural activity, Halorhodopsin, Light, Millisecond-timescale, Multimodal fast optical interrogation of neural circuitry, Neurons, Neuroscience, Optogenetics

Well, a lot actually! Green algae, or Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to be formal, are the unicellular organisms with a unique trait that has been helping make huge advances in modern neuroscience… Read more

Did You Know? Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Epilepsy: The Brain’s Cacophony

February 6, 2013March 5, 2017 Ryan Jones 8 Comments Epilepsy, grand mal, partial seizure, Seizure, tonic clonic

Imagine sitting in the front row of the Walt Disney Concert Hall on opening night. The LA Philharmonic’s conductor, Gustavo Dudamel, has tirelessly prepared an amazing performance: Mozart’s Symphony No.… Read more

Brain Basics Popular Articles

Brain Battery

December 14, 2012March 5, 2017 Ryan Jones 9 Comments Battery, Brain, Lightening, lipid bilayer, Membrane, Potential, Ryan Jones, The Matrix, Voltage

“The human generates more bio-electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTVs of body heat. There are fields…endless fields, were human beings are no longer born. We are grown…… Read more

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