FeaturedNeurologyNeuroscience·May 4, 2016·2 min readForeign Accent Syndrome Due to Impaired Neural ConnectionA new study reports foreign accent syndrome may be caused by impaired connections between the motor speech areas in the left hemisphere of the brain and the cerebellum.Read More
FeaturedPsychology·March 2, 2016·3 min readLinking Specific Brain Areas to DepressionAccording to a new study, damage in specific brain structures appear to be associated with a greater risk of developing depression.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience VideosPsychology·February 21, 2016·9 min readLanguage Characterizes HumansFrom babbling to complex sentences, researchers delve into how our ability to produce and understand language makes us humans unique.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·February 16, 2016·4 min readJawless Fish Brains More Similar to Ours Than Previously ThoughtResearchers have shown that complex divisions in the vertebrate brain first appeared before the evolution of jaws, more than 500 million years ago.Read More
FeaturedNeurology·February 3, 2016·5 min readAlzheimer’s Plaques Found in Brains of Middle Aged TBI PatientsA new study reports amyloid plaques are present shortly after brain injury in middle aged people. The findings may help explain why people who suffer TBIs are at an increased risk for developing Alzheimer's.Read More
FeaturedGeneticsNeurology·February 1, 2016·10 min readDelivering Genes Across the Blood-Brain BarrierA new study reports researchers have successfully modified a virus to be able to enter a mouse brain via the bloodstream and deliver genes to central nervous system cells.Read More
FeaturedGeneticsNeurology·January 7, 2016·4 min readMolecular Mechanism For Rare Neurodegenerative Disease DiscoveredA new study identifies a mechanism responsible for the degeneration of Purkinje cells in the cerebellum in Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1, a rare neurodegenerative disease.Read More
FeaturedGenetics·December 22, 2015·4 min readEpigenetic Processes Linked to Cerebellar Circuitry DevelopmentA new study describes the epigenetic mechanisms that underlie the development of the cerebellum.Read More
FeaturedGenetics·November 30, 2015·3 min readGenetic Variants Associated with Schizophrenia Influence Gene Activity in Developing BrainResearchers shed ligh on how DNA sequence variation influences gene activity in brain development.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·October 27, 2015·3 min readBrain Conserves Energy by Forgetting Unnecessary InformationResearchers report the brain conserves energy by forgetting unnecessary information learned.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·October 9, 2015·5 min readHow the Brain Keeps TimeResearchers have discovered how neurons in the lateral intraparietal cortex measure time intervals and accurately reproduce them.Read More
ElectrophysiologyFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·September 29, 2015·4 min readChanging Their Tune: How Purkinje Cells Alter Their SignalsResearchers report neurons in the cerebellum send out their electrical signals either as a constant hum or in sudden bursts, depending on the voltage that crosses their cell membranes.Read More
