Neuro Primer: Sleep
It’s easy to ask: “Why sleep?” But we can also turn the question on its head: “Why wake?” We need to be awake, among other reasons, to find and eat…
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Alzheimer’s
The Pathology of Alzheimer’s Disease
Whether it be forgetting 20 years of your life or having the same conversation every five minutes only to forget it each time, memory impairment can take a large toll…
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Neuro Primer: Aging
What happens to the brain in aging?
Normal aging comes with many changes in brain structure and function. As individuals approach the age of 65 years and above, they experience…
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[Podcast] Uploading the Human Brain
n a brand new episode of the Knowing Neurons podcast, we explore the concept of “mind uploading”. How would something like a mind upload really work?…
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The Law of Attraction, the Placebo Effect, and the Immune-Brain Connection
iomedical researchers call it “the most replicated experiment in the history of science.” Simply put, the placebo effect is a phenomenon where people who believe they are being treated for…
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High Fat Diet May Prevent Sudden Death in Epilepsy
he human brain consists of highly complex circuitry which is wired to elicit a synchronous pattern of electrical signals. This allows for communication between differing regions of the brain. When…
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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…
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The Tenets of Tauists
For the labs working tirelessly to understand the underpinnings of Alzheimer’s disease, there are often two camps: BAPtists and tau-ists. …
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Uncovering the Brain Circuitry of Short Term Memory
Have you ever asked for a phone number only to forget it moments later? The only way to remember it is to rehearse the digits over and over in your…
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Magnesium Supplement to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease
The human brain contains roughly eighty-six billion (~10^10) neurons, each of which forms approximately ten thousand (10^4) synaptic connections with other neurons. Therefore, on average, there are one hundred trillion…
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From Turkey Comas To New Disease Treatments
Neurodegenerative disorders, like Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s disease, are devastating. As you can imagine, witnessing the slow and progressive loss of a loved one’s mental and emotional states is an extremely…
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A Close Look into the Alzheimer’s Brain
Your brain is able to store massive amounts of memories throughout your lifetime. There are cases, however, in which this ability progressively degrades and eventually disappears, giving way to problems…
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