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October 27, 2025 Pooja Chettiar

Gut Instincts: The AI Revolution in Early Parkinson’s Detection

By Pooja Chettiar My grandfather started to shuffle his feet and have trouble with basic things like buttoning his shirt a few years ago. Subtle brain changes had been silently… Read more

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April 10, 2024 Paige Nicklas

The Seductive Allure of Neuroscience: Can Info About Your Brain Change Your Mind?

By Paige Nicklas What Is the SANE effect? Imagine you’re at home watching your favorite evening show after a long day at work, when a commercial for a new vitamin… Read more

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December 19, 2023 Vidya Saravanapandian

Knowing Neurocare

Written and Illustrated by Vidya Saravanapandian Edited by Gil Torten, Katie Cooke, and Mary Bullock… Read more

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April 25, 2023 Andrew Bontemps

Taking a “trip” inside the cell: New research shows how psychedelics promote neuroplasticity

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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April 24, 2023 Gil Torten

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

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September 2, 2022 Diana Ortega Cruz

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

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July 19, 2022 Talia Oughourlian

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

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July 11, 2022 Gil Torten

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

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June 8, 2021 Joel Frohlich

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

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February 15, 2021 Arielle Hogan

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

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January 3, 2021 Elizabeth Burnette

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

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October 13, 2020 Sean Noah

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

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November 16, 2018 Caitlin Aamodt

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

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September 25, 2018 Marco Travaglio

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

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May 29, 2018 Roland Imhoff

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

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December 13, 2017 Alexa Erdogan

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

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November 8, 2017 Amin Kamaleddin

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

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September 22, 2017 Brainfacts.org

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

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August 23, 2017 Sophie Fessl

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

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August 21, 2017 Kayleen Schreiber

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

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June 19, 2017 Kayleen Schreiber

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

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April 19, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber

March for Science

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

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March 29, 2017 Rachel Jonas

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

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March 15, 2017 Kayleen Schreiber

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

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