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Featured Neurology Open Neuroscience Articles

·March 9, 2019·4 min read

Alzheimer’s: How does the brain change over the course of the disease?

Research reveals atrophy of the amygdala and hippocampus at age 40 in patients later diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

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·November 4, 2014·4 min read

ALS: Crunching Clinical Data by Weight of Numbers

Researchers organize a crowdsourcing challenge to help identify new algorithms which could expedite effective therapies for ALS.

This is an fMRI scan which shows the location of the cerebellum in a schizophrenic patient.

Featured Genetics Psychology

·February 13, 2014·2 min read

How Memory and Schizophrenia Are Connected

Researchers identify a network of genes that controls fundamental properties of neurons and is important for brain activity, memory and the development of schizophrenia.

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Featured Neuroscience

·February 19, 2013·5 min read

Engineering Control Theory Helps Create Dynamic Brain Models

Models of the human brain, patterned on engineering control theory, could assist researchers control neurological diseases, according researcher who is using mathematical models of neuron networks from which more complex brain models emerge.