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This is a rat in the virtual reality environmant.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·November 6, 2013·6 min read

Anticipation and Navigation: Do Your Legs Know What Your Tongue is Doing?

Researchers create a multisensory virtual reality environment in order to better understand how the brain processes spatial navigation and the anticipation of important events.

Featured Neuroscience

·November 5, 2013·4 min read

Quantity, Not Just Quality, in New Brain Scan Method

Using MRI neuroimaging, researchers develop a new method of quantifying brain tissue volume. The new method could provide an additional way to track the progress of multiple sclerosis and other neurological diseases.

This is an MRI of white matter structures in the human brain.

Featured Genetics

·November 4, 2013·2 min read

Brain Aging is Conclusively Linked to Genes

Researchers discover the decline in brain function, which occurs during normal aging, is influenced by genetics.

The image shows the position of the amygdala in the brain.

Featured Psychology

·November 1, 2013·4 min read

Researchers Determine How Treatment for Anxiety Disorders Silences Fear Neurons

Using mouse models, researchers report that exposure therapy remodels an inhibitory junction in the amygdala. The findings could improve understanding of how exposure therapy could suppress fear responses and help develop new treatment methods for those with anxiety disorders.

Featured Genetics

·November 1, 2013·5 min read

Study Finds a Patchwork of Genetic Variation in the Brain

Researchers discover a surprising degree of variation among the genomes of individual neurons taken from the same brain.

This is an fMRI scan of a person in a vegetative state.

Featured Neurology Open Neuroscience Articles

·October 31, 2013·3 min read

Patient in ‘Vegetative State’ Not Just Aware, but Paying Attention

A new study reveals a patient in a seemingly vegetative state showed signs of attentive awareness which had not been detected previously. Researchers hope the findings could open the door to creating specialized devices to allow those in a vegetative state to interact with the outside world.

These photographs show the experimental setup for the Observe-Hand and Observe-Foot groups.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·October 30, 2013·2 min read

Baby Brains are Tuned to the Specific Actions of Others

Researchers discover infant brains are surprisingly sensitive to other people's movements.

The image shows super mario holding a penguin.

Featured Psychology

·October 30, 2013·2 min read

How Video Games Like Super Mario Can Benefit the Brain

Playing video games causes increases in brain regions responsible for memory formation and strategic planning, researchers have discovered. The findings could prove relevant in developing new therapeutic interventions for psychiatric illnesses.

Featured Neuroscience

·October 28, 2013·2 min read

Snakes on the Brain: Are Primates Hard-Wired to See Snakes?

Researchers discover specific neurons in the brains of rhesus macaque monkeys respond to images of snakes.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·October 27, 2013·3 min read

Neuroscientists Discover New ‘Mini-Neural Computer’ in the Brain

Researchers show dendrites actively process information, multiplying the brain's "computing power". The findings could help provide better understanding of neurological disorders.

The image shows neurons in the auditory cortex of a mouse

Featured Neuroscience

·October 25, 2013·2 min read

A Trace of Memory: Researchers Watch Neurons in the Brain During Learning and Memory Recall

Researchers track single neurons in mice brains over time using advanced neuroimaging techniques. The new technique allowed them to establish the processes at play during memory formation and recall.

Featured Genetics Open Neuroscience Articles

·October 24, 2013·2 min read

Brainpower Applied to Understanding of Neural Stem Cells

Researchers discover SMEK1 promotes the differentiation of neural stem and progenitor cells while, at the same time, keeping these cells in check by suppressing their uncontrolled proliferation.

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brain mapping

Anticipation and Navigation: Do Your Legs Know What Your Tongue is Doing?

Quantity, Not Just Quality, in New Brain Scan Method

Brain Aging is Conclusively Linked to Genes

Researchers Determine How Treatment for Anxiety Disorders Silences Fear Neurons

Study Finds a Patchwork of Genetic Variation in the Brain

Patient in ‘Vegetative State’ Not Just Aware, but Paying Attention

Baby Brains are Tuned to the Specific Actions of Others

How Video Games Like Super Mario Can Benefit the Brain

Snakes on the Brain: Are Primates Hard-Wired to See Snakes?

Neuroscientists Discover New ‘Mini-Neural Computer’ in the Brain

A Trace of Memory: Researchers Watch Neurons in the Brain During Learning and Memory Recall

Brainpower Applied to Understanding of Neural Stem Cells

How Your Brain Saves Nostalgia From Scandals

Dietary Lecithin Linked to Lower Cognitive Impairment

How to Map Brain Circuits Without Touching a Single Neuron

Overlooked Blood Cell May Tracks Parkinson’s Brain Changes

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