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Understanding Noonan Syndrome

December 12, 2018December 12, 2018 Caitlin Aamodt 0 Comments Brain, bullying, Cell signaling, Charles McDowell, G-protein signaling, Genetics, intellectual disability, kinase, Learning, Long-term potentiation, LTP, Meme, Memory, neurodevelopmental disorer, Neuroscience, noonan syndrome, Novartis, phosphatase, Prison, PTPN11, Ras, Rasopathy

This past November the mug shot of Charles McDowell went viral after viewers noticed that the man in the photo had an unusual phenotype- specifically a larger than average neck.… Read more

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It’s Brain Awareness Week!

March 13, 2017June 30, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 0 Comments 10 Brain Facts, 52 Brain Facts, BAW, Brain Awareness Week, Interviews, Videos, Weird Animal Brains

Every March, Brain Awareness Week (BAW, for short) unifies the world in celebration of the brain and mind! In order to raise awareness about how the brain works, what neuroscientists… Read more

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Our Year in Review

December 21, 2016June 30, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 0 Comments 2016, Neuroscience, Research, SciArt, SciComm

Knowing Neurons had an amazing year, and we are so thankful for all your support throughout our journey!  Here are some highlights from 2016!… Read more

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Why Dopamine Makes People More Impulsive

March 10, 2016March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 10 Comments D2 receptors, Dopamine, fMRI, L-dopa, Parkinson's Disease, PD, Temporal discounting, Ventral Tegmental Area, VTA

Over the past few decades, the neurochemical dopamine has earned the reputation of being the brain’s reward molecule.  This image is built on observations that when animals and humans experience… Read more

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Myth or Fact? Many psychopaths have a poor sense of smell.

March 7, 2016March 23, 2016 knowingneurons 0 Comments 52 Brain Facts, Frontal lobe, Olfaction, olfactory, Olfactory Bulb, Perception, Psychopath, Smell

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How Do We Know? The Value of Scientific Models.

February 24, 2016July 10, 2017 Joel Frohlich 1 Comment Action Potential, DNA, EEG, Hodgkin and Huxley, inverse-source localization, Math, Mathematical, mathematics, Model, modeling, NASA, planet, planet ix, theoretical, theory, Theory of mind, Truth, watson and crick

Last month, astronomers announced the prediction of a new giant planet in our solar system dubbed Planet IX, a genuine ninth planet with ten times the mass of Earth.  The… Read more

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Digging Out the “Earworms:” Involuntary Musical Imagery Correlates with Cortical Structure

February 11, 2016March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 5 Comments ACC, Anterior cingulate cortex, Auditory cortex, Cingulate, Consciousness and Cognition, Cortical thickness, Default mode network, DMN, Farrugia, frontal cortex, Fronto-temporal network, GM, Gray matter, Heschl's gyrus, HG, Hippocampus, Imagery, Imagine, IMIS, INMI, Involuntary, involuntary musical imagery, Involuntary Musical Imagery Scale, Kelly Jakubowski, Lauren Stewart, Music, OFC, Orbitofrontal cortex, Parahippocampal cortex, Posterior Cingulate Cortex, Prefrontal Cortex, Rhodri Cusack, Teodora Stoica, Tunes stuck in your brain, Voxel-based morphometry

You don’t know you know this song, but you definitely know this song: “Hey Mickey you’re so fine, you’re so fine you…” Did the end of the lyric materialize in… Read more

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This is Your Brain on Music

February 10, 2016March 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 7 Comments Amygdala, Anatomy, Auditory cortex, Brain, Cerebellum, Distracting, Dopamine, Emotion, Genius, Health, Hippocampus, Learning, Mozart, Music, Neuroanatomy, Neuroscience, Neurotranmistt, Nucleus accumbens, Prefrontal Cortex

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Myth or Fact? The brain is the fattest organ in the body.

February 8, 2016March 23, 2016 knowingneurons 1 Comment 52 Brain Facts, Body, Brain, Fact, Fat, Organ

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The Fugue of Life: Why Complexity Matters in Physiology and Neuroscience

February 3, 2016March 5, 2017 Joel Frohlich 5 Comments Autism, Criticality, Distribution, EEG, Epilepsy, Math, Modularity, Power law, Scale, Schizophrenia, Seizure, Self-organized criticality, Simplicity, SOC

People like simplicity. Each decade, corporate logos grow progressively minimalistic, pop songs use ever simpler melodies, and visual art embraces simpler compositions, as Monet gives way to Picasso and Picasso… Read more

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Scale Invariance: A Cautionary Tale Against Reductionism

July 29, 2015September 24, 2017 Joel Frohlich 15 Comments 80-20, Avalanche, Average, Blue Brain Project, Distribution, Fractal, Math, Mathematical, Model, Normal distribution, Power law, Reductionism, Scale Invariance, Self-organized criticality, SOC

How long is the coast of Britain?  It doesn’t matter how good your geography is — the answer depends on the size of your measuring stick.  The coast of Britain… Read more

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Inhibitory Neurons: Keeping the Brain’s Traffic in Check

November 5, 2014March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 13 Comments 5HT3aR, Basket cells, Epilepsy, Feedforward inhibition, GABAergic neurons, Inhibitory Interneurons, Interneurons, Martinotti cells, Parvalbumin, Reelin, SfN, SfN14, Somatostatin, Vasoactive intestinal peptide

Imagine that you’re driving down a road undeterred, no red lights or stop signs to slow you down. While that may seem like a very exciting idea, it is obviously… Read more