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Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·December 10, 2022·4 min read

How Neurons Autonomously Regulate Their Excitability

The SLK protein plays a key role in neuron excitability and sensitivity, researchers report.

Featured Neuroscience

·November 25, 2022·3 min read

Essential Signaling Pathway for Neuronal Connectivity During Brain Development Identified

Study reveals a signaling pathway that controls the formation of synapses between pyramidal neurons and inhibitory neurons expressing the parvalbumin protein.

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Autism Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·October 6, 2022·5 min read

Brain Organoids Provide a Window Into Autism

Investigating the effects of genetic abnormalities associated with autism and human brain development, researchers found brain organoids engineered to have lower levels of the ASD-associated SHANK3 gene had distinct features including neural firing hyperactivity, disruptions in pathways that cause cells to adhere to each other, and indications of ineffective neurotransmission.

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·October 1, 2022·11 min read

Study Reveals Main Target of COVID-19 in Brain and Describes Effects of Virus on Nervous System

SARS_CoV_2, the virus responsible for COVID-19 infects and replicates in astrocytes, reducing neural viability.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·September 19, 2022·6 min read

Social Touch and Its Newly Discovered Neural Pathway

A neural pathway that leads directly from the thalamus to the hypothalamus plays a critical role in processing touch information, a new study reveals.

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Featured Neuroscience

·September 7, 2022·3 min read

Somatostatin Neurons Cooperate in the Cerebral Cortex

In the cerebral cortex, when somatostatin neurons become active, other nearby somatostatin neurons became active as well. The distance over which somatostatin neurons shared activity expanded in the posterior parietal cortex.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·August 18, 2022·4 min read

Touch and Sight Are Linked Before Birth

During the embryonic stage, tactile information simultaneously activated the tactile and visual neural pathways. After birth, the pathways separate and reorganize to allow for individual processing of visual and tactile information.

Featured Neuroscience

·July 29, 2022·5 min read

Pinpointing Consciousness in Animal Brain Using Mouse ‘Brain Map’

Brain mapping study identifies important neural networks and their connections that appear to enhance the conscious experience.

Featured Neuroscience

·July 13, 2022·4 min read

Even in Sleep, Your Brain’s Neurons Are Humming Along to Mozart

A study of the cerebral cortex discovered there is a robust response to sound during sleep that largely mirrored the brain's response during wakefulness. However, differences in brain waves that help the brain understand sound and anticipate what comes next is missing during sleep.

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Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience

·July 12, 2022·6 min read

Sleep Provides a Major Key to the Mystery of Consciousness

During sleep, the brain analyzes auditory input but is unable to focus on the sound or identify the noise; therefore no conscious awareness of the stimuli occurs.

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Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·July 7, 2022·5 min read

Brain Pathway That Helps to Explain Light’s Effect on Mood Discovered

Neuroimaging study reveals how light-sensitive signals reach the brain and how regions associated with mood process those signals. Some regions of the cerebral cortex associated with cognitive and mood processing show sensitivity to light intensity.