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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 Psychology

·November 5, 2013·3 min read

Torture Permanently Damages Normal Perception of Pain

Prisoners of war experience dysfunctional perception and regulation of pain many years after their release. Researchers believe this could be a result of torture they received while incarcerated.

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·November 5, 2013·2 min read

Stem Cells Linked to Cognitive Gain After Brain Injury in Preclinical Study

MAPC therapy reduces inflammation after TBI and also promotes lasting cognitive improvement, a new study reports.

this is a diagram of the sympathetic nervous system.

Featured Genetics Open Neuroscience Articles

·November 5, 2013·6 min read

Effects of Chronic Stress Can be Traced to Your Genes

Chronic stress alters gene activity in immune cells before they reach the bloodstream. The change leads to an overabundance of inflammation, which is linked to many negative health effects, a new study reports.

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.

The image shows brains as the feet of musical notes.

Featured Neuroscience

·November 5, 2013·2 min read

Just a Few Years of Early Musical Training Benefits the Brain Later in Life

Researchers report people who learned to play music as children process speech faster later in life.

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 a banana in color and one in black and white.

Featured Neuroscience

·November 2, 2013·2 min read

The Visual Brain Colors Black and White Images

A new study reports our brains fill in the color when we look at black and white images.

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.