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Neuro Primer: Cerebral Organoids

June 27, 2018April 18, 2019 Caitlin Aamodt 3 Comments Biology, Brains in a dish, Cell, Cell cultures, Cell signaling, Cells, Chimeras, Microcephaly, Nature, Neuroscience, Organoids, Rodent, Rodents, Sentience, Zika, Zika virus

t may sound like something Dr. Frankenstein himself would be envious of, but scientists can now create miniature “brain” organoids in a dish.… Read more

Movement Neuro News

The Strange Relationship between Nicotine and Parkinson’s Disease

April 13, 2016March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 5 Comments 2016, Aggregates, Block, Bradykinesia, Brain, Cell, Cell death, Chaperone, Clusters, Disease, Disorder, Dopamine, Drug, Exercise, Inhibit, Lester, Misfolded, Movement, Neuroscience, News, Nicotine, Nigrostriatal pathway, Parkinson's Disease, PD, Protection, Protein, Protein folding, Reward pathway, Smoking, Smoking-Relevant Nicotine Concentration Attenuates the Unfolded Protein Response in Dopaminergic Neurons, Srinivasan, Tunycamycin

According to the World Health Organization, smoking is responsible for approximately 6 million deaths in the world every year or one fatality every six seconds. 71% of all lung cancers… Read more

Neuro News Neuroscience Technologies

Mapping the Information Highway in the Brain

March 26, 2014March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 0 Comments 2014, Anterograde, Bowman, Brain, Cell, Circuits, Coinjection, Connectomics, Dong, Imaging, Mapping, Mouse Connectome Project, Networks, Neural Networks of the Mouse Neocortex, Neural tracer, Retrograde, Toga, University of Southern California, USC, Zingg

It’s hard to imagine life without Google Maps nowadays. We use the interactive map daily to find out how to get from point A to point B. Wouldn’t it be… Read more

Brain Basics Did You Know? Learning and Memory

Resolving New Memories: Adult Neurogenesis

February 5, 2014March 5, 2017 Ryan Jones 3 Comments 1998, 2012, Adult neurogenesis, behavioral pattern separation, Cell, contextual fear conditioning, Dentate gyrus, Eriksson, Fred Gage, Hippocampus, Learning, Memory, Memory pattern separation, Nakashiba, Nature, Nature Medicine, Neural progenitor cell, Pattern separation, Susumo Tonegawa, van Praag

When I was young, my family lived in an old farmhouse. It was cozy and had a lot of character but, at over 150 years old, it showed its age.… Read more

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