By Mary Bullock Cooper
Spring forward an hour in March or fall back an hour in November… you know the drill. It’s once again that time of year when everyone…
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By Vidya Saravanapandian
Brain Awareness Week (BAW) is an annual event celebrated across the world to increase public awareness of brain research and to inspire the younger generation to pursue…
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By Honoreé Brewton
There are conflicting sources regarding the first usage of the term déjà vu, a French term meaning “already seen” (Merriam-Webster), but it can be traced back to…
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By Chris Gabriel
Rock climbing is as much a puzzle as it is a sport. Anyone could guess that climbing requires a unique combination of athletic skills: muscular power to…
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By Mariella Careaga
Just like any other emotion, love has more to do with the brain than you might think.
Among all emotions, love seems to have a special place…
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By Lauren Wagner
Thirteen years after the first Avatar movie came out in 2009, director James Cameron invites viewers to journey back to the faraway, lush exo-moon of Pandora with…
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February is Eating Disorder Awareness Month. In this infographic, Sneha Chaturvedi explains the major risk factors, neurobiology, and treatment options for eating disorders.…
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By Carolin Fischer
When was the last time you looked at your smartphone? Or are you even reading this text on your smartphone right now? In any case, you are…
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In this Close Up Look, our author Gil Torten shares new findings of the differences between the fovea and the periphery using a new model system!…
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By Anastasiia Gryshyna
Have you ever wondered why some of us have chronic pain while others do not? Most of us have experienced the awful sensation when you burn your…
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By Amy Than
The following tweet inspired this piece:
To answer the question: you don’t need to, nor should you ever, write a cover letter like a fan fiction.…
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An essay by John Zhou
On an overcast afternoon in November, 2022, a teenage boy pages through a glossy video game manual in his bedroom in the Saitama prefecture of…
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By Mary Cooper
“New year, new me,” is a thought we may have had around the start of a new year. Maybe we want to be stronger, healthier, or smarter…
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By Holly Korthas
You see it in commercials every day: creams and lotions to reduce wrinkles, dyes to eliminate gray hair, and remedies to reduce muscle and joint aches. Along…
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Artículo original: No Somos Tan Racionales Como Creemos: La Filosofía Política y La Ciencia de la Irracionalidad, Daniel Toker
Los científicos cognitivos han sabido por décadas que los humanos son…
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By Martina Nonni
Emotions are important aspects of our lives and everyday experiences. While scientists agree that they do exist, they don’t seem to agree on much else. Researchers are…
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This fall, Knowing Neurons celebrates our ten-year anniversary! We’ve come a long way since our organization was first founded in 2012 by a group of five neuroscience PhD students from…
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By: Justin McMahon
Academic laboratories and biotech companies around the world are racing to develop next-generation therapeutics. At the forefront of this scientific innovation is gene therapy: a medical approach…
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By Jasreen Singh
What are binaural beats?
Have you ever heard something that wasn’t actually there? Perhaps you were listening to an auditory illusion known as binaural beats.
A binaural…
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By Marta Garo-Pascual
Telomeres are the “shoelace caps” of linear chromosomes and, as shoelace caps protect shoelaces, telomeres serve a protective role for chromosomes. Barbara McClintock and Hermann Muller described…
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By Chris Gabriel
The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the way we live our lives and has been a driving force behind global policy since its emergence in late 2019. Some…
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By Idha Sood
“Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought.” -Albert Einstein
Has an idea popped into your head while having your afternoon…
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By Amy Than
Neuroscience is very interdisciplinary! Here is an incomplete list of careers that folks who are passionate about the study of the nervous system tend to excel in.…
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By Anastasiia Gryshyna and Ayushe Sharma
Vampires have been a source of fascination for centuries. Whether portrayed as bloodthirsty killers, immortality-seeking psychopaths, or misunderstood romantics, these creatures of the night…
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By Javeria Shahid
What is lucid dreaming?
Have you ever found yourself in control of a dream? Lucid dreaming is a state in which a person is aware that they…
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Neuroscience is a broad scientific field that encompasses many different types of research. This research ranges from the microscopic level such as basic protein interactions, genes, and cells, to the…
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This month’s infographic shares just how common eye injuries are and what you can do to prevent them. Click to read more for Eye Injury Awareness Month!…
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By Mariella Careaga
Alzheimer’s disease is a degenerative brain disorder that progressively impacts a person’s cognitive functioning and behavioral capacities, leading, ultimately, to the disruption of that person’s daily life.…
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Check out this “A Close Up Look” infographic to explore the equipment involved in, and the process of, CLEM – Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy!…
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By Caitlin Goodpaster
For the past two hundred thousand years, humans have dominated planet Earth. From the time we were roaming the African savanna, members of Homo sapiens have mastered…
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By Vincent A Medina
Gun deaths in the United States far exceed those of every other developed country in the world (Sam & Rupp, 2022). This has prompted frequent discussions…
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By: Lauren Granata
The transition from childhood to adulthood is notoriously turbulent. Teens fumble through these years as they try to finesse a balance between school, extracurriculars, and their ever-shifting…
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For Migraine Awareness Week, from September 5-14 this year, Federica Raguseo created an infographic to raise awareness – click here to read more.…
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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…
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By Lauren Wagner
The Neuroscience of Autism, edited by Rajesh Kana, is the most recently published textbook on the history, characterization, and neuroscience of autism spectrum disorder. Lauren Wagner walks…
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By Arielle Hogan
As you sit here reading this article, your cells are working away in your body performing all the diverse biochemical reactions necessary to keep you going. As…
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by Caitlin Goodpaster
Early this June, a viral story hit the internet—an engineer at Google had claimed an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot named LaMDA was conscious (Tiku, 2022). LaMDA, which…
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By Vincent A Medina
Vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch. When combined, these form a single coherent perception of the world around us. The combination of senses for this purpose…
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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…
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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…
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Written by James Cole
“It is a test [that] genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
T.S. Eliot
A couple years ago I found myself in perhaps one of…
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