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Meet our newest team member Kayleen Schreiber

September 7, 2016June 30, 2017 Kayleen Schreiber 3 Comments Audition, auditory, Contribute, Cortex, EEG, Hear, Hearing, Kayleen Schreiber, Knowing Neurons, Neuroscience, Prefrontal Cortex, Research, Science, Speech perception, Team

We have someone new joining our team!  She is a neuroscience PhD student at the University of Iowa, and she studies speech perception – but let’s let the animation she… Read more

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Digging Out the “Earworms:” Involuntary Musical Imagery Correlates with Cortical Structure

February 11, 2016March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 5 Comments ACC, Anterior cingulate cortex, Auditory cortex, Cingulate, Consciousness and Cognition, Cortical thickness, Default mode network, DMN, Farrugia, frontal cortex, Fronto-temporal network, GM, Gray matter, Heschl's gyrus, HG, Hippocampus, Imagery, Imagine, IMIS, INMI, Involuntary, involuntary musical imagery, Involuntary Musical Imagery Scale, Kelly Jakubowski, Lauren Stewart, Music, OFC, Orbitofrontal cortex, Parahippocampal cortex, Posterior Cingulate Cortex, Prefrontal Cortex, Rhodri Cusack, Teodora Stoica, Tunes stuck in your brain, Voxel-based morphometry

You don’t know you know this song, but you definitely know this song: “Hey Mickey you’re so fine, you’re so fine you…” Did the end of the lyric materialize in… Read more

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This is Your Brain on Music

February 10, 2016March 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 7 Comments Amygdala, Anatomy, Auditory cortex, Brain, Cerebellum, Distracting, Dopamine, Emotion, Genius, Health, Hippocampus, Learning, Mozart, Music, Neuroanatomy, Neuroscience, Neurotranmistt, Nucleus accumbens, Prefrontal Cortex

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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

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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Mapping Brain Connectivity Using Graph Theory

October 21, 2015March 5, 2017 Joel Frohlich 1 Comment Brain, Brain mapping, Consciousness, Default mode network, DMN, fMRI, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Functional MRI, Graph, Graph Theory, Hubs, Leonhard Euler, Map, Neocortex, Network, Node, Phrenology, Place Cell, Prefrontal Cortex

Have you ever wondered why the same brain regions are often implicated again and again in many tasks and behaviors?  For instance, the prefrontal cortex is implicated in so many… Read more

Learning and Memory 

Memory Hack: Manipulating the Brain’s Memory Cache

April 22, 2015March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 2 Comments Amnesia, Cellular Pharmacology of Protein Kinase Mζ (PKMζ) Contrasts with Its in Vitro Profile: IMPLICATIONS FOR PKMζ AS A MEDIATOR OF MEMORY, Long-term memory, Memory, MMM, Molecular memory modification, PKMζ, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Prefrontal Cortex, protein kinase, PTSD, Safety, Teodora Stoica, Wu-Zhang

Imagine having a memory that haunts you, sneaks into your daily thoughts and turns over on itself in your dreams.  Escape seems impossible.  Now imagine you are injected with a… Read more

Aging Learning and Memory Neuro News 

Keeping Memories Fresh by Keeping Glutamate In Check

January 21, 2015March 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 1 Comment 2014, Aging, Alzheimer’s disease, Dendrite, glutamate, Glutamatergic, Hippocampus, Long-term potentiation, LTP, Memory, Morrison, Neuroplasticity, Pereira, PNAS, Prefrontal Cortex, Riluzole, Spine

We are another year older, perhaps a little wiser, and probably more forgetful.  Indeed, making memories is quite a process in the brain: specific synaptic connections are strengthened and new… Read more

Brain Basics Did You Know? 

Bet on your Brain: The Psychology of Winning

April 9, 2014March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 0 Comments Adapt, Amygdala, Anatomy, Anterior cingulate, Brain, Dopamine, Emotions, Exercise, Focus, Hippocampus, Insula, Medial temporal lobe, Memory, Neuroanatomy, Nucleus accumbens, Orbitofrontal cortex, Prefrontal Cortex, Psychology, Resilience, Rewire, Striatum, Ventral Tegmental Area, Winning

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10 Brain Facts

March 13, 2014March 5, 2017 knowingneurons Amygdala, Anarchic Hand Syndrome, Brain, Face-recognition, Facts, Infographic, myelin, Neuroscience, Olfactory Receptor, Pain, Phantom Limb Pain, Prefrontal Cortex, Synesthesia, Temporal Lobe

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A New Year. A New You.

January 2, 2013March 5, 2017 Anita 0 Comments New Year's Resolutions, PFC, Prefrontal Cortex, Ventromedial prefrontal cortex, vmPFC

Yesterday, millions of people across the world made New Year’s resolutions to lose weight, quit smoking, or follow their dreams.  Chances are that this isn’t the first time they made… Read more

Learning and Memory Neuro News 

2013: Making and Breaking Resolutions

December 31, 2012March 5, 2017 JuanVelasquez 0 Comments 2012, D'Ardenne, DLPFC, Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex, fMRI, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, PFC, PNAS, Prefrontal Cortex, Resolutions, Reward, Role of prefrontal cortex and the midbrain dopamine system in working memory updating, SN, Substantia Nigra, TMS, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Ventral Tegmental Area, VTA, Working memory

Tomorrow, it will be 2013!  And while it may seem that the world around us has not changed, calendars and clocks remind us that it’s time to kick old habits,… Read more