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By Andrew Bontemps Original article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf0435 “Perspectives” article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg2989 Maxemiliano Vargas and colleagues from UC Davis and Medical College of Wisconsin recently released a paper describing some of the interesting… Read More

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Gil Torten April 24, 2023April 24, 2023 Eyes, Optic nerve, Pharmacology, Retina, therapeutics

A Close Up Look 23 – Ocular Drug Delivery

In this next Close Up Look, Gil Torten discusses methods for drug delivery to the retina!… Read More

Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Diana Ortega Cruz September 2, 2022September 9, 2022 Alzheimer’s disease, Amyloid beta, brain tissue, FDA, fraudulent research, neuropathological diagnosis, opensource research, PET, Protein, research community, rodent model, Tau, western blot

Recently reported fraudulent research in Alzheimer’s: does this actually risk a key theory of the disease?

By Diana Ortega Cruz In previous articles at Knowing Neurons, we have discussed the neurobiology of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), the most common form of dementia. This neurodegenerative disease has long… Read More

Neuro News Learning and Memory Mental Health

Talia Oughourlian July 19, 2022July 22, 2022 Amygdala, Basal ganglia, birth control, brain structure, contraceptives, fMRI, Gray matter, Hippocampus, Insula, Learning and Memory, MRI, Plasticity, putamen

The Female Brain on Hormonal Birth Control

By: Talia Oughourlian Hormonal contraceptives were introduced more than 60 years ago (OBOS Contributors, 2021) with some commending the contraceptive pill as one of the greatest scientific inventions of the… Read More

Infographics A Close Up Look Big Ideas Neuro News Neuroscience Technologies

Gil Torten July 11, 2022July 11, 2022 cancer, cell count, Disease, DNA, mutation, Protein, RNA, Treatment, tumor

A Close Up Look 16 – scRNA-seq

In this new infographic, Gil Torten discusses single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq). Read more to find out about what this process looks like and how scRNA-seq can be used in… Read More

Big Ideas Consciousness Did You Know?Evolution of Cognition Joel's Pick Neuro News Philosophy

Joel Frohlich June 8, 2021June 8, 2021 Anxiety, Awareness, Brain Awareness, brain imaging, Cognition, Consciousness, Default mode network, fMRI, Psychology

How Floating in Darkness Takes the Body off the Mind

What happens when your mind disconnects from all outside sensations? First, you undress, put in earplugs, and step into a floatation tank, the water warmed to the temperature of your… Read More

Brain Basics Collaborations Did You Know?Interviews Neuro News

Arielle Hogan February 15, 2021November 11, 2023 Estrogen, Hormone, Hypothalamus, Metabolism, Nature, Sex differences, Temperature

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

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

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

Elizabeth Burnette January 3, 2021November 11, 2023 Bias, Classical Conditioning, Drug, negative symptoms, Placebo effect, Treatment

The Nocebo Effect

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

Artificial Intelligence Big Ideas Collaborations Did You Know?Interviews Neuro News Neuroscience Technologies

Sean Noah October 13, 2020February 18, 2021 Computational, Computational Biology, Education, mathematics, Neuromatch Academy, Skill learning

Neuroscience Education in the Time of COVID-19: An Interview with Dr. Megan Peters about Neuromatch Academy

In March 2020, my research stopped. The cognitive neuroscience lab where I work was shuttered because our research involves collecting behavioral and neuroimaging data from human participants – something impermissible… Read More

Language Evolution of Cognition Neuro News

Caitlin Aamodt November 16, 2018April 18, 2019 Evolution, FoxP2, Genetics, Human, language

Study Sheds New Light on FOXP2 in the Evolution of Language

Language is a uniquely human trait, and how it evolved is one of the greatest unanswered questions in neuroscience. Spoken and written language facilitate much of what makes up human… Read More

Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Neuro News

Marco Travaglio September 25, 2018December 14, 2018 cell replacement therapy, CiRA, Dopamine, induced pluripotent stem cells, iPS Cell Research and Application, iPSC, Muhammad Ali, Parkinson's Disease, Substantia Nigra, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Main Bout: New Hopes in the Fight Against Parkinson’s Disease

Following his Olympic victory in 1960, Muhammad Ali earned the World-Heavyweight-Champion title in 1964 in one of the most celebrated upsets in boxing history. The much-anticipated fight opened with the… Read More

Big Ideas Culture Neuro News

Roland Imhoff May 29, 2018May 29, 2018 Behavior, conspiracy theories, Culture, Experiment, new world order, Psychology, reptilian, Research

Want to Feel Unique? Believe in the Reptile People

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he internet is full of wild-eyed insinuation. Seemingly accidental events are not actually accidental. A few powerful people have hatched plots to bring about certain outcomes, usually with the goal… Read More

Neuro News Neuroscience Technologies

Alexa Erdogan December 13, 2017April 17, 2023 anterior paired lateral (APL) neuron, Drosophila, Electron Microscope, Electron microscopy, EM, Kenyon cells, mushroom body, Neuroplasticity, olfactory neuron, protocerebrum, synaptic plasticity, TEM, TEMCA2, transmission EM

One Small Map for Fruit Flies, One Giant Leap for Neuroscience

*Note: this article explores a recent paper that has been reviewed and published in its preprint form, before peer review. [dropcap]W[/dropcap]hile there is a certain majesty in the convoluted wrinkles… Read More

Neuro News Did You Know?

Amin Kamaleddin November 8, 2017June 19, 2022 cancer, chemo, chemotherpy, Goldszmid, gut bacteria, Mao, Nervous System, Oxaliplatin, Peripheral nerves, peripheral neuropathy

No Pain, No Gain: Commensal Bacteria Help Chemotherapy Through Painful Side Effects

[dropcap]C[/dropcap]ancer is still an unmet clinical challenge. Tens of thousands of people are diagnosed with cancer every day. In the US alone, more than half a million people died from… 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

Brain Development Neuro News

Sophie Fessl August 23, 2017August 23, 2017 Alain Chedotal, Brain, commissural axons, Cre-recombinase, Development, dorsal-ventral axis, ephrins, floorplate, Hemispheres, Netrin, netrins, Patrick Mehlen, Samantha Butler, semaphorins, slits, ventricular zone, wiring

Mind the Gap: New Evidence on How Neurons Connect Left and Right Brain Halves

[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ur brains are split into two halves, a left hemisphere and a right hemisphere. While the left brain specializes in languages, the right brain specializes in faces. But the two… Read More

Learning and Memory Did You Know?Neuro News

Kayleen Schreiber August 21, 2017August 21, 2017 Brain, Fact, Infographic, Knowing Neurons, Learning, Memory, Neuron, Neurons, Neuroscience, Research, Science

Bite-size science: The brain remembers without staying the same

A new paper published this month in the journal Cell describes an unexpected finding about memory. Researchers used to think that memory required specific activity from the same brain cells… Read More

Aging Did You Know?Learning and Memory Movement Neuro News

Kayleen Schreiber June 19, 2017June 30, 2017 Alzheimer’s disease, Brain, Cortex, DNA, Epigenetics, gene, Genetics, Infographic, Knowing Neurons, Learning, Memory, Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration, Neuron, Neurons, Neuroscience, Prefrontal Cortex, Receptor, Research, Science

Bite-size Science: Epigenetics help protect the aging brain

Epigenetics change which genes are active and which are inactive. Research over the past few years has shown that these changes are important for protecting the brain from neurodegeneration and… Read More

Neuro News Science Policy

Kate Fehlhaber April 19, 2017December 4, 2017 Advocacy, Budget, March, March for Science, National Institutes of Health, NeuroTransmissions, NIH, resist, Science, STEM, Videos

March for Science

America feels like it’s unraveling. And science is holding on by a thread.… Read More

Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Brain Basics Neuro News

Rachel Jonas March 29, 2017June 22, 2022 ADHD, Alzheimer's, Brain, Default mode network, DMN, fMRI, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, MRI, Neuroimaging, Psychiatry

Can We Trust MRI Research? It’s Complicated.

The first human magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan was acquired almost 40 years ago. The scanner — hand-built by Dr. Raymond Damadian with the help of his two postdoctoral fellows… Read More

Neuroscience Technologies Brain Basics Brain Development Did You Know?Learning and Memory Neuro News Sensation and Perception

Kayleen Schreiber March 15, 2017June 30, 2017 2017, Alzheimer’s disease, Brain, Conference, Development, Fact, Florida, Infographic, Institute, Knowing Neurons, Learning, Max Planck, Memory, Neuron, Neuroscience, Perception, Receptor, Research, Science, Sunposium, Synapse

How does fundamental research help you?

Sometimes it’s hard to understand why scientists do what they do. Why spend a career studying cells, fungus, or flies? Other than being nerdy and wanting to learn about our… Read More

Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Rachel Jonas January 18, 2017June 30, 2017 Adapt, Adaptation, Advisor, Amygdala, Dishonesty, Estimator, Experiment, fMRI, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Functional MRI, Lying, Science, Slippery Slope, Video

The Slippery Slope of Dishonesty

A kid stealing candy in a convenience store grows up to be a convicted criminal. A husband who flirts with a coworker ends up as a serial cheater. A politician telling… Read More

Neuro News

Kate Fehlhaber November 7, 2016June 30, 2017 Award, Education, Interview, Neuroscience, Neuroscience 2016, Next Generation Award, Outreach, SciArt, SciComm, SfN, SfN16, Society for Neuroscience

We won an award!

We are excited to announce that we received the Society for Neuroscience 2016 Next Generation Award. This award recognizes SfN chapter members who have made outstanding contributions to public communication,… Read More

Did You Know?Neuro News

Joel Frohlich October 26, 2016June 30, 2017 2016, Circuit, Cute, Cuteness, Dopamine, fMRI, Kringelbach, MRI, Nucleus accumbens, PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Reward, Reward pathway

The Mighty and the Weak: How Science Explains Cuteness

Cute things are usually vulnerable, fragile and weak. But cuteness itself is mighty indeed. Morten L. Kringelbach and his colleagues at the University of Oxford recently described cuteness as ‘one… Read More

Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Neuro News

Anita October 19, 2016June 30, 2017 Brain, Calcium, Dorsal raphe nucleus, DRN, GFP, Green fluorescent protein, Indicator, Loneliness, Neuron, Optogenetics, Reward, Social Rebound, Ventral Tegmental Area, VTA

What Loneliness Looks Like in the Brain

Consider three scenarios. A kid joins a new high school and eats lunch by herself. A recently separated man is alone for the New Year’s Eve countdown. A prisoner becomes… Read More

Neuro News Did You Know?Sensation and Perception

Kate Fehlhaber October 12, 2016June 30, 2017 auditory, Brain, Fingerprint, Mother, Pattern, Reward, Soothe, Speech, Study, Voice

How a mother’s voice shapes her baby’s developing brain

It is no surprise that a child prefers its mother’s voice to those of strangers. Beginning in the womb, a fetus’s developing auditory pathways sense the sounds and vibrations of… Read More

Did You Know?Neuro News

Jenn Tribble August 31, 2016March 18, 2018 2016, ASD, Autism, Autism as a neural systems disorder: A theory of frontal-posterior underconnectivity, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Brain, Broken Mirror Theory, Connection, EEG, Electroencephalogram, fMRI, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Iacoboni, Just, Mirror, Mirror me: Imitative responses in adults with autism, Mirror Neuron, MRI, Mu, Mu rhythm, Munchau, Neuroimaging, Neurosci, Neuroscience, Rhythm, Schunke, Science, The mirror neuron system and the consequences of its dysfunction, theory, Underconnectivity, Varma

Neuron See, Neuron Do: The Mirror Neuron System and Clinical Implications

If you grew up with siblings, it is likely that you have heard the phrase, ”Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” However, it wasn’t until a groundbreaking finding in… Read More

Neuro News Did You Know?Learning and Memory

knowingneurons May 4, 2016March 5, 2017 Adrenal, Amygdala, Brain, cortisol, depression, Disorder, Early Life Adversity, ELA, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, gene, Gland, glucocorticoid, glucose, Hippocampus, Iacoboni, Limbic, Maniam, Memory, Neurod1, Neurogenesis, Neuroplasticity, Plasticity, Psychotic, PTSD, Rats, Receptor, Spatial Navigation, stress, Sugar

Is too much sugar a form of brain abuse?

We all know too much sugar is bad for us. But did you know that having unfettered access to sugar might produce brain changes similar to highly stressful situations, such… Read More

Neuro News Sensation and Perception

Rachel Jonas April 20, 2016September 24, 2017 5-HT2AR, Albert Hofmann, Anxiety, blood-oxygen-level dependent, BOLD, Brain, cancer, depression, Effects, Experiment, fMRI, functional connectivity, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, hallucinogen, Imperial College London, LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide, Neuroscience, Pain, placebo, psilocybin, Science, serotonin, serotonin 2A receptor, signal, Therapeutic, Therapy

LSD: Psychedelic Thrill or Optimism Pill?

If you’re in a room with ten adults, chances are two of them are going to develop a mental illness –- and only one of them will receive proper treatment.… Read More

Neuro News Movement

knowingneurons April 13, 2016March 5, 2017 2016, Aggregates, Block, Bradykinesia, Brain, Cell, Cell death, Chaperone, Clusters, Disease, Disorder, Dopamine, Drug, Exercise, Inhibit, Lester, Misfolded, Movement, Neuroscience, News, Nicotine, Nigrostriatal pathway, Parkinson's Disease, PD, Protection, Protein, Protein folding, Reward pathway, Smoking, Smoking-Relevant Nicotine Concentration Attenuates the Unfolded Protein Response in Dopaminergic Neurons, Srinivasan, Tunycamycin

The Strange Relationship between Nicotine and Parkinson’s Disease

According to the World Health Organization, smoking is responsible for approximately 6 million deaths in the world every year or one fatality every six seconds. 71% of all lung cancers… Read More

Our Year in Neuroscience - 2015 - Knowing Neurons

Did You Know?Neuro News

Kate Fehlhaber December 30, 2015March 5, 2017 2015, Articles, Brain, Neuroscience, Popular, Posts, Review, Top, Year

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,… Read More

Learning and Memory Movement Neuro News

knowingneurons October 7, 2015March 5, 2017 2015, Basal ganglia, Brainstem, Cerebellum, Episodic memory, Kawai, Learning, Memory, Motor cortex, Neuron, Olveczky, Procedural memory, Rat Lesion, Semantic memory, Skill learning, Thalamus

The Departure of Skill Memories from Motor Cortex: Deeper Directions for Neuroscience

You probably have certain skills that I don’t. Each of us, having spent enough time practicing something new, can become an expert. A simple, ubiquitous example is driving a car… Read More

Did You Know?Neuro News Science Policy

knowingneurons September 25, 2015March 5, 2017 Budget, Capitol, DC, Funding, Money, National Institutes of Health, NIH, Research, Science Advocacy, Science Policy, Washington

Science Advocacy on Capitol Hill: Bridging the Legislative Gap to Medical Research Funding

Last Thursday, September 17th I had the privilege of joining over 300 organizations including patients, physicians and fellow researchers in the Rally for Medical Research on Capitol Hill. Now in… Read More

Neuro News

Jillian L. Shaw September 16, 2015March 5, 2017 CPEB, Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, cytoplasmic polyadenylation element binding protein, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Eric Kandel, Fioriti, Hippocampus, Long-term memory, mad cow disease, Neuron, Prions

Choose Your Own (Prion) Adventure: Memory or Madness

In the early ‘80’s ranchers in Great Britain began to notice strange behaviors in their cows. What began with increased aggression and an inability to walk turned into a strange… Read More

The emotional mechanics of the robot-human interaction

Did You Know?Neuro News Neuroscience Technologies

knowingneurons August 12, 2015March 5, 2017 Amygdala, Emotion, Insula, mentalizing network, MRI, MTN, Nao, person perception network, PPN, Robot, Robot-human interaction, Uncanny valley

The emotional mechanics of the robot-human interaction

First impressions are pivotal. While reading another person’s cues, an abridged version of them forms as we draw on complex social inferences in merely seconds of interaction. That is, if… Read More

Learning and Memory Neuro News Neuroscience Technologies

Jillian L. Shaw February 4, 2015March 5, 2017 2014, Brain mapping, EEG, Episodic, Gamma, Inferior temporal lobe, intracranial EEG, Johns Hopkins, Map, Memory, PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Theta, Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, Yaffe

Intracranial EEG and Mental Time Travel

A familiar progression of chords blares out of your speakers as the red lights of the surrounding traffic fade into the memory of a dark stage illuminated by pulsing neon lights.… Read More

Aging Learning and Memory Neuro News

Kate Fehlhaber January 21, 2015March 5, 2017 2014, Aging, Alzheimer’s disease, Dendrite, glutamate, Glutamatergic, Hippocampus, Long-term potentiation, LTP, Memory, Morrison, Neuroplasticity, Pereira, PNAS, Prefrontal Cortex, Riluzole, Spine

Keeping Memories Fresh by Keeping Glutamate In Check

We are another year older, perhaps a little wiser, and probably more forgetful. Indeed, making memories is quite a process in the brain: specific synaptic connections are strengthened and new… Read More

Movement Neuro News SfN 2014

Jillian L. Shaw November 16, 2014March 5, 2017 Afferent Sensory Neurons, Alex Honnold, Efferent Motor Neurons, GABA, GABAergic neurons, GAD2, inhibitory, Interneuron, Microcircuit, motor neuron, Nature, Oscillation, Presynaptic inhibition, Proprioception, SfN14, Spinal cord, Thomas Jessel

Smooth Move: How GABAergic Interneurons Regulate Skilled Motor Behavior

In early 2014, the American free-solo rock climber Alex Honnold climbed 2,500 feet of limestone without ropes. The demanding route called El Sendero Luminoso in El Potrero Chico, Mexico required… Read More

Neuro News SfN 2014 Sleep

Kate Fehlhaber November 15, 2014March 5, 2017 Amita Sehgal, Awake, Brain, Circadian, Circuits, Clock, Cycle, Drosophila, Fruit fly, GABA, HHMI, Johns Hopkins, Large ventrolateral neurons, Neurons, SfN14, Sha Liu, Sleep, WAKE, Wide awake, Wu Lab

WIDE AWAKE at #SfN14

There’s always one person snoring through the talk you’re trying to listen to at SfN. That person might even be you at some point during this meeting! Whether you are… Read More

Movement Neuro News Sensation and Perception SfN 2014

knowingneurons November 12, 2014March 5, 2017 2014, Corollary discharge, Frontiers in Neural Circuits, Glycine, Interneuron, Laura Kngloer, Motor, Movements, Neuron, Reflex, Sensory, SfN14, Zebrafish

What Zebrafish Teach Us About Touch

Unlike the sense of vision, which is perceived only by light-sensitive photoreceptors in our eyes, the mechanoreceptors that respond to light touch are located in sensory neurons all over the… Read More

Brain Basics Did You Know?Neuro News SfN 2014

Anita October 15, 2014March 5, 2017 Biology, Brain, BRAIN Initiative, Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies, Electrophysiology, fMRI, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Genetics, Molecular, Neuroscience, Optogenetics, PET, Positron emission tomography, SfN, SfN14, Single-cell recording, Spatial, Technology, Temporal, TMS, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulaion

Getting Technical: Methods in Neuroscience

It is an exciting time for neuroscience. The BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) is in the spotlight as a part of the new Presidential focus and recently… Read More

Neuro News SfN 2014

Kate Fehlhaber October 8, 2014March 5, 2017 Annual Meeting, Education, Infographic, Neuroscience, SfN, SfN14, Society for Neuroscience

Get Ready for #SfN14 with #KnowingNeurons

This is an exciting time for neuroscience! The Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine was just awarded to three neuroscientists “for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system… Read More

Oh Rats Theyll Regret This Knowing Neurons

Brain Basics Neuro News

Anita July 30, 2014March 5, 2017 2014, A David Redish, Adam P Steiner, Behavioral Neuroscience, Brain, Decision, Decision-making, Food Preference, Nature Neuroscience, Neuroscience, OFC, Orbitofrontal cortex, Regret, Restaurant Row, Reward, Risk, Ventral striatum

Oh, Rats! They’ll Regret This.

We often find ourselves in decision-making dilemmas along the day. For instance, to reach work on time, would you rather take the shorter, faster route or the longer, scenic route?… Read More

Itching to Understand Dynorphin Knowing Neurons

Neuro News Sensation and Perception

Jillian L. Shaw July 16, 2014March 5, 2017 2014, Bernard, Bhlhb5, Dynorphin, Inflammation, Itch, Kappa, Kardon, Limbic system, Mu, Neuron, Opioid, Pain, Spinal cord, Spinal dorsal horn

Itching to Understand Dynorphin

Bzzzzzz! Splat! Ugh! Anyone who has ever been around a campfire during the summer months is familiar with this progression of noises. Mosquito bites and the resulting welts provide unwelcome… Read More

Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Anita May 14, 2014March 5, 2017 Blood-brain barrier, Capillary pericytes regulate cerebral blood flow in health and disease., Catherine Hall, Cerebral blood flow, David Attwell, Ischemic stroke, Nature, Nature 2014, neurovascular unit, No-reflow phenomenon, pericytes, Vasodilation

Decoding the Brain’s “Low Fuel” Signal

The human body is an efficient model to explore the popular theory of supply and demand. When you physically exert yourself, your bioenergetic “supply” is down, so you feel hungrier… Read More

Learning and Memory Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

knowingneurons April 30, 2014March 5, 2017 Conditioning, contextual fear conditioning, Extinction training, Fear conditioning, HDACi, Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors, Lexie Thorpe, Mice, Pavlov, Plasticity, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Therapy

Reconciling the Past with Pills: A New Approach to PTSD Treatment

Over a lifetime, the human brain stores countless memories. Some are mundane and practical, others are subjective, and some influence our thinking and behaviour. Not all of them are good.… Read More

Movement Neuro News

Kate Fehlhaber April 23, 2014March 5, 2017 2014, Bidaye, Central pattern generator, Circuit, CpG, Dickson, Drosophila, Fruit fly, Kinematics, MAN, MDN, Michael Jackson, Moonwalk, Neuronal Control of Drosophila Walking Direction, Proprioception, Science, TrpA1, Walk

How To Do The Moonwalk

Walking around in the real world, as opposed to the uncluttered hallways of your school, requires flexible and adaptive fine-tuning of the basic alternating stepping pattern of our two legs.… Read More

Learning and Memory Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Jillian L. Shaw April 2, 2014March 5, 2017 2014, Alzheimer's, Chromatin, degeneration, DNA, Drosophila, Euchromatin, Feany, Frost, Fruit fly, H3K9me2, Heterochromatin, HP1a, Hyperphosphorylated, Nature Neuroscience, Neurotoxicity, Nucleus, Tau, Tau promotes neurodegeneration through global chromatin relaxation, Tauopathy

The Tenets of Tauists

For the labs working tirelessly to understand the underpinnings of Alzheimer’s disease, there are often two camps: BAPtists and tau-ists. … Read More

Mapping the Information Highway in the Brain Knowing Neurons

Neuro News Neuroscience Technologies

knowingneurons March 26, 2014March 5, 2017 2014, Anterograde, Bowman, Brain, Cell, Circuits, Coinjection, Connectomics, Dong, Imaging, Mapping, Mouse Connectome Project, Networks, Neural Networks of the Mouse Neocortex, Neural tracer, Retrograde, Toga, University of Southern California, USC, Zingg

Mapping the Information Highway in the Brain

It’s hard to imagine life without Google Maps nowadays. We use the interactive map daily to find out how to get from point A to point B. Wouldn’t it be… Read More

Brain Basics Neuro News

knowingneurons March 19, 2014March 5, 2017 2013, Alzheimer’s disease, excitatory, excitotoxicity, glutamate, Huntington's, inhibitory, Licorice, liquiritigenin, Neuroprotection, Neuroprotective effects of liquiritigenin isolated from licorice roots on glutamate-induced apoptosis in hippocampal neuronal cells, NeuroToxicology, Song, toxicity, Yang

A Piece of Licorice a Day Keeps the Doctor Away?

Turns out that tub of black licorice you got from Costco, and managed to eat in only a few days (don’t worry, I won’t tell anybody!), might have actually done… Read More