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Brainfacts.org September 13, 2018August 1, 2023 Brain development, Cognition, cognitive development, Development, Dyslexia, neuroscience myths, Reading

Do People With Dyslexia Read and Write Backwards?

Dyslexia is an unexpected difficulty in learning to read despite normal intelligence and vision and access to good instruction. Today, scientists generally agree that people with dyslexia struggle to read… Read More

Neurolaw feature image, depicting libra scales with a brain on the left scale and a book on the right scale.

Big Ideas Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Science Policy

Brainfacts.org November 22, 2017November 21, 2017 Addiction, Courtroom, Drug policy, Drugs, Eyewitness testimony, Jed Rakoff, Justice, Law, Memory, Memory consolidation, Neurolaw, Neuroscience, Prison, Rehabilitation

Neurolaw: Combining Neuroscience and Criminal Justice

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he number of U.S. judicial opinions citing neuroscience more than doubled in the seven years from 2005 to 2012, according to an analysis in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences.… Read More

Brain Basics Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Neuroscience Technologies Videos

Brainfacts.org September 22, 2017September 22, 2017 Algae, Biomimicry, BrainFacts.org, Channelrhodopsin, Deep Brain Stimulation, Optogenetics, Parkinson's Disease, Retina, Video

Lighting Up The Brain With Optogenetics

Scientists studying pond scum discovered its peculiar ability to sense light, even without eyes. This discovery would eventually lead to a technique called optogenetics, one of the most powerful techniques… Read More

Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Neuroscience Technologies

Brainfacts.org September 8, 2017September 8, 2017 Alim-Louis Benabid, Basal ganglia, China White, DBS, Deep Brain Stimulation, dementia, depression, Dopamine, Joseph Fourier University, L-dopa, Mahlon DeLong, MPTP, Parkinson's Disease, Parkinsonian, Subthalamic nucleus, Tourette syndrome, Tremor

The Past and Promise of Deep Brain Stimulation

In the early 1980s, a few batches of contaminated synthetic heroin triggered severe Parkinson’s disease symptoms among the drug addicts who used it. The tragedy would lead to a new… Read More

Brain Basics Learning and Memory

Brainfacts.org August 25, 2017August 24, 2017 Basal ganglia, birdsong, brain facts, BrainFacts.org, language, Learning, motor skills, singing, vocal behaviors, Vocal Learning, Zebra Finch

Learning about Language from Birdsong

Songbirds are one of the few known species who learn to speak (or sing) like we do. That makes them the perfect case study to learn about the origins of… Read More