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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

Biomedical researchers call it “the most replicated experiment in the history of science.” Simply put, the placebo effect is a

Did You Know? Movement Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Bite-size science: Cell replacement therapy for Parkinson’s Disease

October 30, 2017October 29, 2017 Kayleen Schreiber 0 Comments Brain, Cortex, Dopamine, Infographic, Knowing Neurons, Motor, Movement, Parkinson's Disease, Research, Science

In Parkinson’s Disease, specific cells in the brain die. Over time, this makes basic movements like walking and reaching for

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Lighting Up The Brain With Optogenetics

September 22, 2017September 22, 2017 Brainfacts.org 0 Comments Algae, Biomimicry, BrainFacts.org, Channelrhodopsin, Deep Brain Stimulation, Optogenetics, Parkinson's Disease, Retina, Video

Scientists studying pond scum discovered its peculiar ability to sense light, even without eyes. This discovery would eventually lead to

Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Neuroscience Technologies

The Past and Promise of Deep Brain Stimulation

September 8, 2017September 8, 2017 Brainfacts.org 0 Comments Alim-Louis Benabid, Basal ganglia, China White, DBS, Deep Brain Stimulation, dementia, depression, Dopamine, Joseph Fourier University, L-dopa, Mahlon DeLong, MPTP, Parkinson's Disease, Parkinsonian, Subthalamic nucleus, Tourette syndrome, Tremor

In the early 1980s, a few batches of contaminated synthetic heroin triggered severe Parkinson’s disease symptoms among the drug addicts

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Stimulating Neural Circuits with Magnetism

January 4, 2017June 30, 2017 Joel Frohlich 1 Comment Brain, Broca, Cortex, DBS, Deep Brain Stimulation, depression, Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex, ECT, EEG, electroconvulsive therapy, Motor, Parkinson's, Parkinson's Disease, Prefrontal, Prefrontal Cortex, rDCS, Seizure, TMS, transcranial direct current stimulation, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Brain stimulation might sound like some Frankensteinian demonstration from a Victorian science fair. But in reality, it is a contemporary

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The Strange Relationship between Nicotine and Parkinson’s Disease

April 13, 2016March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 4 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

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Why Dopamine Makes People More Impulsive

March 10, 2016March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 10 Comments D2 receptors, Dopamine, fMRI, L-dopa, Parkinson's Disease, PD, Temporal discounting, Ventral Tegmental Area, VTA

Over the past few decades, the neurochemical dopamine has earned the reputation of being the brain’s reward molecule. This image

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Tangerines, Tomatoes, and Neuroinflammation! Oh My!

March 17, 2014March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 0 Comments 2014, Alzheimer’s disease, Antineuroinflammatory effects of lycopene via activation of adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase-α1/heme oxygenase-1 pathways, Flu, Immune, Kuang, Lin, Lu, Microglia, Neurodegeneration, Neuroinflammation, Parkinson's Disease, Shu, Tangeretin exerts anti-neuroinflammatory effects via NF-κB modulation in lipopolysaccharide-stimulated microglial cells, Vitamin C

While we are still in the midst of the flu season, we all try to stay as healthy as possible

Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Sensation and Perception

Repaving Old Roads After Spinal Cord Injury

December 4, 2013March 5, 2017 Jillian L. Shaw 2 Comments 2013, Bachmann, Central pattern generator, Deep Brain Stimulation, Deep Brain Stimulation of the Midbrain Locomotor Region Improves Paretic Hindlimb Function After Spinal Cord Injury in Rats, Locomotion, Mesencephalic locomotor region, Movement, Neurodegeneration, Parkinson's Disease, Regeneration, Schwab, Science Translational Medicine, Spinal cord injury

The World Health Organization estimates that as many as 500,000 people will experience spinal cord injuries (SCI) every year. Researchers

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Mitochondria: More Than Just a Powerhouse

January 23, 2013March 5, 2017 JuanVelasquez 0 Comments Adaptive Downregulation of Mitochondrial Function in Down Syndrome, Alzheimer’s disease, Autism, Down syndrome, Energy Failure, Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Parkinson's Disease

Mitochondria are frequently implicated in several human disease states. From neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s disease and Autism Spectrum Disorder, to

Did You Know? Movement Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Bringing Statues to Life

January 16, 2013March 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 0 Comments Awakenings, Encephalitis lethargica, L-dopa, Oliver Sacks, Parkinson's Disease, sleepy sickness

It’s 1920, and an epidemic is in full effect. Encephalitis lethargica (also known as sleepy sickness) has spread across the

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Treating the diseased brain with artificial stimulation

January 14, 2013March 5, 2017 Anita 2 Comments Antidromic spikes, Basal ganglia, DBS, Deep Brain Stimulation, Dopamine, Neuron, Parkinson's Disease, Qian Li, Substantia Nigra, Subthalamic nucleus, Therapeutic deep brain stimulation in parkinsonian rats directly influences motor cortex., Wing-Ho Yung

We often fail to appreciate the small and precise functions of our motor system. How effortless and smooth our movements

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