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Featured Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology

·December 16, 2013·3 min read

Researchers Study Alcohol Addiction Using Optogenetics

Using optogenetics, researchers obtain a better understanding of the neurochemical basis for alcohol addiction.

Featured Neuroscience Videos Psychology

·August 4, 2016·7 min read

Schizophrenia Simulator: When Chemistry Upends Sanity’s Balance

Researchers have developed a model of schizophrenia that simulates chemical imbalances associated with memory disturbances.

Brain Cancer Featured Neurology

·October 20, 2016·5 min read

Scientists Build a Better Cancer Drug to Pass Through Blood-Brain Barrier

By altering DON, an anti-cancer drug cultivated from bacteria originally found in Peruvian soil over 70 years ago, scientists believe they have made a safer and more tolerable form of the drug.

The illustration is a brain slice with advanced stage alzheimer's.

Featured Neurology Neuroscience Videos

·June 28, 2013·5 min read

Scientists View ‘Protein Origami’ to Help Understand, Prevent Certain Diseases

Using sophisticated imaging techniques, researchers observe a molecular protein folding process which could help better understand and treat neurodegenerative diseases and cancers.