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Aging Brain Basics Neuro Primer Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders 

Neuro Primer: Aging

October 10, 2018October 8, 2018 Gabrielle Torre 0 Comments AD, Age-related cognitive decline, Aging, ALS, Alzheimer's, Alzheimer’s disease, Amyloid, amyloid plaques, Baby Boomers, beta-amyloid, Brain activation, Brain cells, Cardiovascular health, Childhood, Cognition, Cognitive performance, Cortex, dementia, Disease, Executive function, Exercise, Genetics, glutamate, Hippocampus, Longevity, Memory, Memory decline, myelin, Nervous System, Neurogenesis, Neuroimaging, Neurons, Neuroplasticity, Neuroscience, Neurotransmitters, Normal aging, Parkinson's, Parkinson's Disease, Plasticity, Quality of life, Research, Science, Sleep, Sleep habits, Ventricles, Working memory

What happens to the brain in aging? Normal aging comes with many changes in brain structure and function. As individuals approach the age of 65 years and above, they experience… Read more

Brain Development Learning and Memory 

A Tale of Plasticities

August 15, 2018September 7, 2018 Cameron McKay 0 Comments Adult neurogenesis, Axon, Axons, Basic science, Brain, Cells, Connections, Cortex, Dendrite, Dendrites, Dendritic spine, Development, environment, Experience-dependent plasticity, Gray matter, Hippocampus, Human memory, Humans, Juggling, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Marian Diamond, Memories, Memory, MRI, MRI research, Neurodevelopment, Neurogenesis, Neurons, Neuroplasticity, Plasticity, Rats, Research, Science, Synapse, Synaptic pruning, Synaptogenesis, Taxi drivers, TBI, Traumatic brain injury, White matter

You may have heard it repeated in the media and pop culture that humans’ brains don’t change at all after birth. However, the past several decades of neuroscience research have… Read more

Brain Basics Neuro Primer 

Neuro Primer: Neurodevelopment

July 13, 2018July 13, 2018 Gabrielle Torre 1 Comment Apoptosis, Axons, Biology, Brain, Brain development, Brain growth, Cell death, Cells, Cortex, Dendrites, Development, Infancy, Knowing Neurons, Learning, neurobiology, Neurodevelopment, Neuron, Neurons, Neuroplasticity, Neuroscience, Plasticity, Science, Synapse, Synapses

How does your brain become a brain? Neurodevelopment is the crucial process through which every brain is formed.… Read more

Aging 

Out with the Old, in with the New – Can Neuron Transplantation Stop Brain Aging?

May 2, 2018May 2, 2018 Sophie Fessl 0 Comments Aging, cell replacement, cell transplantation, head transplantation, identity, organoid, Plasticity, Self

his past November, neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero connected a dead person’s head to a different corpse – a procedure he claimed to be a “successful head transplant.” His assertion was attacked… Read more

52 Brain Facts 

Myth or Fact? A little stress is good for the brain.

May 9, 2016June 4, 2016 knowingneurons 4 Comments 52 Brain Facts, Benefit, Brain, Dread, glucocorticoid, Hippocampus, Hormone, Hypothalamus, LTP, Memory, Neuroscience, Plasticity, Risk, Roller coaster, stress, Synapse, Time

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Did You Know? Learning and Memory Neuro News 

Is too much sugar a form of brain abuse?

May 4, 2016March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 1 Comment Adrenal, Amygdala, Brain, cortisol, depression, Disorder, Early Life Adversity, ELA, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, gene, Gland, glucocorticoid, glucose, Hippocampus, Iacoboni, Limbic, Maniam, Memory, Neurod1, Neurogenesis, Neuroplasticity, Plasticity, Psychotic, PTSD, Rats, Receptor, Spatial Navigation, stress, Sugar

We all know too much sugar is bad for us.  But did you know that having unfettered access to sugar might produce brain changes similar to highly stressful situations, such… Read more

Aging Brain Development 

Smells Like Teen Synapses: A Look Inside Adolescent Brains and Behaviors

November 18, 2015March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 1 Comment Adolescent, Adult, Dendrite, Dendritic spine, Development, Emotion, Mindfulness, Plasticity, Prefrontal Cortex, Ronald Dahl, Synaptogenesis, Teenager, Teens, Ventral striatum

“I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child,… Read more

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From Stevens to Synapses: A Conversation with Kelsey Martin

October 22, 2014March 5, 2017 Jillian L. Shaw 0 Comments and Synapses, Conversation, DNA, Eric Kandel, gene, Interview, Kelsey C. Martin, Kelsey Martin, Learning, M.D./Ph.D., Memory, Neurons, Peace Corps., Plasticity, SfN14, Synapse, Synapses, The Living Record of Memory: Genes, UCLA

Take your wildest guess.  How many neurons make up the human brain?  You’re not guessing wild enough if you said anything less than a trillion.  The circuitry of the human… Read more

Learning and Memory Neuro News Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders 

Reconciling the Past with Pills: A New Approach to PTSD Treatment

April 30, 2014March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 0 Comments Conditioning, contextual fear conditioning, Extinction training, Fear conditioning, HDACi, Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors, Lexie Thorpe, Mice, Pavlov, Plasticity, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Therapy

Over a lifetime, the human brain stores countless memories.  Some are mundane and practical, others are subjective, and some influence our thinking and behaviour.  Not all of them are good.… Read more

Did You Know? Learning and Memory 

Is Self-Awareness Humanity’s Greatest Trait?

February 25, 2014March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 1 Comment Cheetah, Direct, Directed greatness, Emotion, Internal traits, Learning, Memory, Network, Plasticity, Practice, Rationality, Self-aware, Self-awareness

The adult human brain is comprised of approximately 86 billion neurons on average, with at least as many nonneuronal cells, networked together to create the substance and memories of a… Read more

Brain Basics Did You Know? Learning and Memory Popular Articles 

LTP: When Neurons Make a Long-term Commitment

January 30, 2013March 5, 2017 Jooyeun Lee 13 Comments AMPA, Ca2+, Calcium, Cascade, Learning, Long-term potentiation, LTP, Memory, NMDA, Plasticity, Second messenger, Synapse, synaptic plasticity

A few months ago, I got a new smart phone that had a bigger screen and a different operating system. For a while, I was annoyed that I made so… Read more