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Sneha Chaturvedi June 12, 2023June 12, 2023 Aphasia, Brain Injury, Broca's area, Communication, Conduction aphasia, language, stroke, Temporal Lobe, Wernicke's area

Knowing Aphasia

June is Aphasia Awareness Month! For this infographic, Sneha Chaturvedi explains the basics of aphasia, which is a neurological condition that affects a person’s ability to communicate or understand… Read More

Infographics

Marisa Guajardo June 7, 2022June 8, 2022 Blood, diabetes, heart disease, Smoking, stroke

Knowing Strokes

Interested in learning more about strokes? Check out this new infographic by our own Kayla Lim discussing different types of strokes and how to recognize them!… Read More

Brain Stimulation: Learning Method of the 21st Century

Learning and Memory Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Sensation and Perception

Amin Kamaleddin April 4, 2018April 2, 2018 Brain, brain stimulation, Consciousness, Decision-making, Free Will, Learning, neuroprosthetics, premotor cortex, stroke

Brain Stimulation: A Learning Method for the 21st Century

[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hat is happening in the brain when you decide to reach your hand and grasp a cup of coffee early in the morning? First, the posterior parietal cortex of your… Read More

Neuroscience Technologies Brain Basics

Gabrielle Torre September 27, 2017September 27, 2017 Alzheimer’s disease, Autism, Biology, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Electromagnetic Forces, Interdisciplinary, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Magnets, Morphometry, MRI, Neuroimaging, physics, Proton Spin, protons, Radio-frequency Waves, stroke, Voxels

The Brain’s Building Blocks: Of Protons and Voxels

[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hat’s in a brain? That which we call a voxel by any other name would sound far less confusing. Imagine all of the atoms in your brain. Now imagine how these… Read More

Science Policy Big Ideas Sensation and Perception

Ellen Wann September 6, 2017September 7, 2017 Brain, diabetes, Funding, Golden Fleece Award, Golden Goose Award, John Eng, NIH, Research Funding, Science Policy, Sensation, Somatosensory, stroke, Taq polymerase

Risky Business, or Is It?

[dropcap]B[/dropcap]iologist Marston Bates once described research as “the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.” Bates was referring to the inherent uncertainty in predicting and managing… Read More

52 Brain Facts

knowingneurons May 16, 2016June 11, 2016 52 Brain Facts, Brain, Face, Face Blindness, Fact, FFA, Fusiform face area, Head, Injury, Prosopagnosia, Recognition, Recognize, stroke

Myth or Fact? Everyone can mentally “tag” their friends.

Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

knowingneurons June 25, 2013March 5, 2017 ATP, Brain, emergency room, ER, Fast-Mag, hemorrhagic, hemorrhagic stroke, ischemic, Ischemic stroke, Magnesium sulfate, stroke, vascular

FAST-MAG in the ER

For those of you unfamiliar with cerebral vascular accidents (a.k.a. stroke), stroke is a major cause of death and disability in the United States, acting as the number three cause… Read More