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Weird Animal Brain: Leaf Sheep Sea Slug

November 27, 2017December 18, 2017 Kayleen Schreiber 0 Comments Infographic, Knowing Neurons, Nature, Perception, Weird Animal Brain

Remember photosynthesis: How plants capture energy from the sun. Chloroplasts (the green parts of leaves) are where the sun’s energy

Did You Know? Movement Weird Animal Brain

Weird Animal Brain: Woodpecker

October 2, 2017September 29, 2017 Kayleen Schreiber 0 Comments Brain, Brain Injury, Infographic, Knowing Neurons, Nature, Neuroscience, Prefrontal Cortex, Research, Science, TBI, Traumatic brain injury

Brain damage is a major concern for us humans – car accidents, football, falling backwards. It’s pretty easy to cause

Did You Know? Sensation and Perception Weird Animal Brain

Weird Animal Brain: Fly

August 7, 2017August 7, 2017 Kayleen Schreiber 1 Comment Brain, Drosophila, Fact, Infographic, Knowing Neurons, Nature, Neuron, Neurons, Neuroscience, Perception, Receptor, Science, Smell, Synapse, taste

Fly lips are called labellum and fly feet are called tarsi. Both the labellum and tarsi contain taste receptors which

Did You Know? Sensation and Perception Weird Animal Brain

Weird Animal Brain: Brittle Star

July 24, 2017July 23, 2017 Kayleen Schreiber 1 Comment Brain, Color, Fact, Infographic, Knowing Neurons, Learning, Nature, Neuron, Neurons, Neuroscience, Perception, Research, Science, Vision

Brittle stars are covered in protective outer plates, but they also have another structure of internal plates. A particular species

Did You Know? Uncategorized Weird Animal Brain

Weird Animal Brain: Moth

July 10, 2017July 9, 2017 Kayleen Schreiber 0 Comments Antenna, Brain, Fact, Infographic, Knowing Neurons, Nature, Neuron, Neurons, Perception, Science, Smell

These beautiful little creatures are incredibly skilled at sniffing out mates. The pheromone the females release is called bombykol. Scientists

Aging Did You Know? Learning and Memory Movement Neuro News

Bite-size Science: Epigenetics help protect the aging brain

June 19, 2017June 30, 2017 Kayleen Schreiber 3 Comments Alzheimer’s disease, Brain, Cortex, DNA, Epigenetics, gene, Genetics, Infographic, Knowing Neurons, Learning, Memory, Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration, Neuron, Neurons, Neuroscience, Prefrontal Cortex, Receptor, Research, Science

Epigenetics change which genes are active and which are inactive. Research over the past few years has shown that these

Big Ideas Consciousness Philosophy

Is there Consciousness in Everything?

June 7, 2017June 30, 2017 Philip Geoff 3 Comments Aeon, Consciousness, Intrinsic, Nature, panpsychism, philosophy

Common sense tells us that only living things have an inner life. Rabbits and tigers and mice have feelings, sensations

Movement Neuro News SfN 2014

Smooth Move: How GABAergic Interneurons Regulate Skilled Motor Behavior

November 16, 2014March 5, 2017 Jillian L. Shaw 2 Comments Afferent Sensory Neurons, Alex Honnold, Efferent Motor Neurons, GABA, GABAergic neurons, GAD2, inhibitory, Interneuron, Microcircuit, motor neuron, Nature, Oscillation, Presynaptic inhibition, Proprioception, SfN14, Spinal cord, Thomas Jessel

In early 2014, the American free-solo rock climber Alex Honnold climbed 2,500 feet of limestone without ropes. The demanding route

Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Decoding the Brain’s “Low Fuel” Signal

May 14, 2014March 5, 2017 Anita 0 Comments Blood-brain barrier, Capillary pericytes regulate cerebral blood flow in health and disease., Catherine Hall, Cerebral blood flow, David Attwell, Ischemic stroke, Nature, Nature 2014, neurovascular unit, No-reflow phenomenon, pericytes, Vasodilation

The human body is an efficient model to explore the popular theory of supply and demand. When you physically exert

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

Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Neuroscience Technologies

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

Did You Know? Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Sensation and Perception

A World Without Pain

September 25, 2013March 5, 2017 Jillian L. Shaw 0 Comments 2006, Al-Gazali, An SCN9A channelopathy causes congenital inability to experience pain, Cox, Dorsal Root Ganglia, Infographic, mutation, Nature, Nav1.7, Neuropathic, Nociceptor, Pain, SCN9A, Sodium channel, Somatosensory, Tetrodotoxin

In Northern Pakistan, a ten-year old street performer awed and horrified crowds with his ability to place knives through his

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