2013 – Knowing Neurons

Navigating a 3D World

May 29, 2014March 5, 2017 Ryan Jones 2 Comments 2013, 3D, Bat, Hippocampus, Map, Place Cell, Representation of three-dimensional space in the hippocampus of flying bats, Science, Three-dimensional, Two-dimensional, Ulanovsky, Weizmann Institute of Science, Yartsev

The brain has an amazing ability to form internal maps of the world around it. Knowing Neurons has previously written several articles about place cells in the hippocampus and how… Read more

Brain Basics Neuro News

A Piece of Licorice a Day Keeps the Doctor Away?

March 19, 2014March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 0 Comments 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

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

Learning and Memory Neuro News

The Smell of the Good Ol’ Days

February 19, 2014March 5, 2017 Ryan Kast 1 Comment 2013, Acetophenone, Dias, Emory, Epigenetics, Experiences, Glomerulus, Grandchild, Grandparent, Hypomethylated, M71, Memory, Nature Neuroscience, Odor, Offspring, Olfactory Receptor, Olfactory sensory neuron, OSN, Parent, Parental olfactory experience influences behavior and neural structure in subsequent generations, Ressler, Ryan Kast, Smell, Trans-generational

The innumerable ways in which our parents contribute to our physical and mental identities are as complex as they are fascinating. From the genetic information they share with us to… Read more

Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Neuroscience Technologies Popular Articles

Reverse Inference: Neuroscience’s Greatest Fallacy?

February 12, 2014March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 21 Comments 2006, 2013, Brain, Cognitive, Hutzler, Imaging, James Fallon, Neuroimaging, Poldrack, Psychopath, Reverse Inference

The recent unveiling of the BRAIN Initiative promised a greater understanding of cognition through improved imaging techniques. However, the biggest problem in neuroscience is not the limits of technology, but… Read more

Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

The Sum of All Fears… Includes Safety?

January 22, 2014March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 0 Comments 2013, Amygdala, Anxiety, Fear, Genud-Gabai, Janak, Journal of Neuroscience, Paz, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Safety, Safety Encoding in the Basal Amygdala, Safety Signals in the Primate Amygdala, Sangha

Identifying safe or dangerous situations are essential for survival. A child may be fearful of crossing a road alone, but he will be completely relaxed while crossing the same road… Read more

Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Sensation and Perception

Repaving Old Roads After Spinal Cord Injury

December 4, 2013March 5, 2017 Jillian L. Shaw 2 Comments 2013, Bachmann, Central pattern generator, Deep Brain Stimulation, Deep Brain Stimulation of the Midbrain Locomotor Region Improves Paretic Hindlimb Function After Spinal Cord Injury in Rats, Locomotion, Mesencephalic locomotor region, Movement, Neurodegeneration, Parkinson's Disease, Regeneration, Schwab, Science Translational Medicine, Spinal cord injury

The World Health Organization estimates that as many as 500,000 people will experience spinal cord injuries (SCI) every year. Researchers at the Center for Neuroprosthetics and Brain Mind Institute in… Read more

Did You Know? Sensation and Perception

Can Looking at Food Photos Ruin Your Dinner?

November 27, 2013March 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 1 Comment 2013, Advertising, Elder, Food, Hunger, Instagram, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Larson, Photo, Satiation, Satiation from sensory simulation: Evaluating foods decreases enjoyment of similar foods

How many advertisements do you see each day? If you could count them all (billboards, television commercials, sidebar advertisements on your Facebook feed), it would add up to almost 5,000! … Read more

Neuro News Sensation and Perception Sleep

Sleep ‘til you’re Hungry. Eat ‘til you’re Sleepy.

November 25, 2013March 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 7 Comments 2013, Brandeis, Drosophila, Fruit fly, Ghrelin, Hunger, Insomnia, Leslie Griffith, Neuron, Neuropeptide Y, NPY, obesity, Short Neuropeptide F Is a Sleep-Promoting Inhibitory Modulator, Sleep, sNPF

Have you ever tried to go to sleep hungry? Believe me, it doesn’t work. You just end up lying in bed, listening to your stomach growl, and dreaming about your… Read more

Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2013 by Knowing Neurons

Neuro News SfN 2014

The Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2013

November 9, 2013March 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 0 Comments @KnowingNeurons, 2013, Brain Awareness, BrainFacts.org, Conference, Infographic, Journal of Neuroscience, Meeting, Neuroscience, SfN, SfN13, Society for Neuroscience

This is BIG week for neuroscience! Each year more than 30,000 neuroscientists from more than 80 countries come together in the largest scientific meeting in the world! At the Society… Read more

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Chromosome Silencing: Turning Off Genes in Down Syndrome

October 22, 2013March 5, 2017 Jillian L. Shaw 0 Comments 2013, Amyloid precursor protein, beta-amyloid plaque, Chromosome 21, Chromosome inactivation, Down syndrome, Gene silencing, heterochromatin modifications, Jiang, Nature, Pearl, Translating dosage compensation to trisomy 21, X-inactivation gene, XIST, ZFN, zinc finger nuclease

Close your eyes and try to imagine medical treatment in the future. I envision sophisticated robots wielding lasers that precisely eliminate deadly tumors. I predict that insight from genome wide… Read more

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Imaging the Brain with Sculpted Light

October 16, 2013March 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 0 Comments 2013, 3D, Brain mapping, Brain-wide 3D imaging of neuronal activity in Caenorhabditis elegans with sculpted light, C. elegans, Ganglia, GCaMP5, High speed, Human Connectome Project, Imaging, Nature Methods, nematode, Optogenetics

Perhaps the biggest goal in neuroscience is to understand how individual neurons interact with each other in both space and time. The more detailed our understanding of complex neural networks… Read more

Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Unhappy with your life? Try spending less time on Facebook!

October 7, 2013March 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 1 Comment 2013, depression, Facebook, Facebook Use Predicts Declines in Subjective Well-Being in Young Adults, Kross, PloS one, Social media, Sueur, Well-Being

I’m going to ask you a question, and you have to be honest. Promise? OK. Here’s the question: how much time do you spend on Facebook each day? Take a… Read more

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