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Did You Know? Sensation and Perception

A Tale of Monogamy and Dopamine

January 21, 2016March 5, 2017 Jenn Tribble 1 Comment Ashley Madison, Coolidge effect, Dopamine, Dynamic Changes in Nucleus Accumbens Dopamine Efflux During the Coolidge Effect in Male Rats, Fiorino, Jennifer Tribble, Journal of Neuroscience, Mate, Mating, Mesolimbic, Monogamy, Motivation, Novely, Nucleus accumbens, Pathway, Pleasure, Prefrontal Cortex, Reward, Ventral Tegmental Area

In a recent hack, private information from nearly 30 million users was leaked from Ashley Madison, a “dating” website intended to facilitate extramarital affairs. The sheer number of Ashley Madison… Read more

The Sum of All Fears Knowing Neurons

Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

The Sum of All Fears… Includes Safety?

January 22, 2014March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 1 Comment 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

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

Aging Learning and Memory Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Magnesium Supplement to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease

May 27, 2013March 5, 2017 Ryan Jones 4 Comments AD, AD-mice, Age, Aging, Alzheimer's, Alzheimer’s disease, and Synaptic Plasticity in the Infralimbic Prefrontal Cortex and Lateral Amygdala, dementia, Effects of Elevation of Brain Magnesium on Fear Conditioning, Elderly, Elevation of Brain Magnesium Prevents and Reverses Cognitive Deficits and Synaptic Loss in Alzheimer's Disease Mouse Model, Emotion, Enhancement of Learning and Memory by Elevating Brain Magnesium, Enhancement of Synaptic Plasticity through Chronically Reduced Ca2+ Flux during Uncorrelated Activity, Fear Extinction, Journal of Neuroscience, Learning, Liu, Magnesium, Memory, Mg2+, MIT, Neuron, NMDA, NMDA receptors, Old, Slutsky, Supplement, Synapse, Synaptic function, Synaptic loss

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… Read more

Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

From Neurons to Astrocytes: The Shift of Focus in Stroke

March 18, 2013March 5, 2017 Anita 0 Comments astrocytes, excitotoxicity, gliotransmitters, glutamate, Haydon P.G., Hines D.J., Inhibition of a SNARE-Sensitive Pathway in Astrocytes Attenuates Damage following Stroke, ischemia, Ischemic stroke, Journal of Neuroscience, SNARE, tripartite synapse

If you think about it, blood vessels are the freeways of the body. The vast array of vasculature enables molecules to reach important destinations (organs) quickly. But, if a small… Read more

Neuro News Sensation and Perception

Love is in the air! Or is that oxytocin?

February 11, 2013March 5, 2017 Jooyeun Lee 0 Comments 2012, Hormone, Hurlemann, Hypothalamus, Journal of Neuroscience, Love, Oxytocin, Oxytocin Modulates Social Distance between Males and Females, Scheele, Valentine’s Day

Have you noticed the chocolates wrapped in bright red paper, teddy bears holding pink hearts in all the stores, and the endless supply of diamond commercials on television? Indeed, this… Read more

Did You Know? Sensation and Perception

Chords of perception

December 19, 2012March 5, 2017 Ryan Kast 0 Comments auditory, auditory continuity illusion, cochlea, Global Not Local Masker Features Govern the Auditory Continuity Illusion, Journal of Neuroscience, Kanizsa Triangle, occluder, peripheral masking theory, Riecke

Your brain is endowed with the fascinating ability to detect saliency in the world. This means that it works to recognize patterns in the presence of excessive sensory information, which… Read more