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The Law of Attraction, the Placebo Effect, and the Immune-Brain Connection

March 1, 2018March 1, 2018 Caitlin Aamodt 0 Comments Addiction, Alzheimer's, Alzheimer’s disease, Autism, depression, Drugs, Immune System, Law of Attraction, Parkinson's, Parkinson's Disease, placebo, Placebo effect, Social experiment, Surgery, Synapses, Treatment

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… Read more

Brain Basics Neuroscience Technologies 

The Brain’s Building Blocks: Of Protons and Voxels

September 27, 2017September 27, 2017 Gabrielle Torre 0 Comments Alzheimer’s disease, Autism, Biology, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Electromagnetic Forces, Interdisciplinary, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Magnets, Morphometry, MRI, Neuroimaging, physics, Proton Spin, protons, Radio-frequency Waves, stroke, Voxels

hat’s in a brain? That which we call a voxel by any other name would sound far less confusing. Imagine all of the atoms in your brain. Now imagine how these… Read more

Brain Basics Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders 

Excitation and Inhibition: The Yin and Yang of the Brain

January 25, 2017June 30, 2017 Joel Frohlich 3 Comments Autism, Brain, complexity, Critical State, Criticality, Disorder, E/I Balance, EEG, Electroencephalogram, Epilepsy, Epileptic, Excitation, GABA, glutamate, Inhibition, Power law, Schizophrenia, Seizure, Self-organized criticality, SOC

To make a working nervous system, only two forces are necessary: excitation and inhibition.… Read more

Did You Know? Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders 

Copy Number Variants: A Window into Psychiatric Illness

September 21, 2016March 18, 2018 Rachel Jonas 0 Comments ADHD, Autism, Bipolar, Brain, CNV, Copy number variant, Deletion, DNA, gene, Genetics, Genome, LCR, Low copy repeat, Map, mutation, Population, Psychiatric, Schizophrenia, Syndrome

The human genome consists of nearly 25,000 protein-coding genes – and a mutation in just one of these can have dramatic effects on our brains.  Remarkably, one tiny change in… Read more

Did You Know? Neuro News 

Neuron See, Neuron Do: The Mirror Neuron System and Clinical Implications

August 31, 2016March 18, 2018 Jenn Tribble 1 Comment 2016, ASD, Autism, Autism as a neural systems disorder: A theory of frontal-posterior underconnectivity, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Brain, Broken Mirror Theory, Connection, EEG, Electroencephalogram, fMRI, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Iacoboni, Just, Mirror, Mirror me: Imitative responses in adults with autism, Mirror Neuron, MRI, Mu, Mu rhythm, Munchau, Neuroimaging, Neurosci, Neuroscience, Rhythm, Schunke, Science, The mirror neuron system and the consequences of its dysfunction, theory, Underconnectivity, Varma

If you grew up with siblings, it is likely that you have heard the phrase, ”Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”  However, it wasn’t until a groundbreaking finding in… Read more

52 Brain Facts 

Myth or Fact? Vaccines cause autism.

April 4, 2016January 18, 2017 knowingneurons 2 Comments 52 Brain Facts, ASD, Autism, Brain, CDC, Center for Disease Control, Falsified Data, measles-mumps-rubella, Misinformation, MMR, Myth, Vaccination, Vaccine

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Brain Books Interviews Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders 

An Interview with Steve Silberman, Author of NeuroTribes

March 30, 2016March 5, 2017 Jillian L. Shaw 3 Comments Author, Autism, Conversation, Interview, Neurotribes, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, SciComm, Steve Silberman, Writer

Ten minutes before I was scheduled to begin my interview with celebrated writer Steve Silberman, I still had not figured out which questions I wanted to ask him.  Staring down… Read more

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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

Learning and Memory Neuro News Popular Articles Sensation and Perception 

Heightened Senses: Cross-Modal Neuroplasticity

February 27, 2014March 5, 2017 Jillian L. Shaw 5 Comments 2014, Autism, Cross-modal plasticity, Learning, Nature Neuroscience, Oxytocin, Oxytocin mediates early experience–dependent cross-modal plasticity in the sensory cortices, Sensory cortex, Sensory deprivation, Visual cortex, Yu, Zheng

Envision this scenario.  It’s the end of a grueling hike and you’re racing back to civilization along a trail in the mountains as darkness falls.  You’ve become separated from your… Read more

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Genetic Tricks To Reverse Schizophrenic Symptoms

June 3, 2013March 5, 2017 Jooyeun Lee 5 Comments 2013, Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Develop, Development, Down syndrome, doxycycline, Fragile X syndrome, genetic, Mei L, Neuregulin-1, Neuron, NRG-1, Reversal of Behavioral Deficits and Synaptic Dysfunction in Mice Overexpressing Neuregulin 1, Schizophrenia, synaptic plasticity, Yin DM

The human brain continues to develop and form new connections from birth until as late as the mid-20s. During this time, billions of connections are made and broken as the… Read more

Brain Development Did You Know? Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Sleep 

Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Infographic

April 17, 2013March 5, 2017 Jooyeun Lee 10 Comments ASD, Asperger syndrome, Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorders, DSM-5, PDD-NOS

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Brain Development Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders 

Of Grandfathers, Fathers, and Children: The Coming-of-Age of Autism

April 15, 2013March 5, 2017 Anita 0 Comments Autism, Autism Risk Across Generations. A Population-Based Study of Advancing Grandpaternal and Paternal Age Autism Risk, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Christina M. Hultman, de novo mutation, Emma M. Frans, grandfather, JAMA Psychiatry, paternal age, sporadic mutation

Genetics, although ostensibly complicated, is all around us. In our immediate social circle, we often come across genetics at display. Some examples are obvious: The kids wear glasses because both… Read more