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What is neuroscience? Neuroscience is the scientific study of nervous systems. Neuroscience often involves research from numerous science genres including brain science, psychology, neurology, computer science, artificial intelligence, big data, statistics, engineering, medicine, physics, mathematics, linguistics, electrophysiology, biology, anatomy and neurobiology.

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·April 16, 2014·5 min read

Eavesdropping on Brain Cell Chatter

Researchers have been able to image changes in calcium levels in astrocytes.

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·April 16, 2014·3 min read

Synapses Stability in Transformation

Researchers report synapses remain stable if their components grow and coordinate with one another.

This image shows the location of the hippocampus in the brain.

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·April 16, 2014·3 min read

Scientists Explain How Memories Stick Together

Researchers create a new model of memory which explains how neurons retain selective memories a few hours after an event takes place.

The image shows the location of the auditory cortex in the brain.

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·April 15, 2014·2 min read

Brain Anatomy Differences Between Deaf and Hearing Depend on First Language Learned

Researchers report that the language we learn as children, as well as hearing status, affect the structure of the brain.

The image shows a glowing brain in a human head.

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·April 14, 2014·4 min read

Researchers Find Brain Activity That May Mark the Beginning of Memories

Tracking the brain activity of a rat as it stops to examine its environment, researchers believe they can mark where memory begins.

The image shows the skull bones of a field mouse.

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·April 13, 2014·3 min read

Brain Size Influences Development of Individual Cranial Bones

Researchers report that brain size influences the development of individual cranial bones.

The image shows a human head outlined against green neurons.

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·April 12, 2014·4 min read

Online Registry Aims to Drive Brain Disease Research

The Brain Health Registry promises to cut the time and costs of conducting clinical trails for neurological diseases. The online project, led by UCSF, will help researchers to analyze and track the brain functions of thousands of volunteers over time.

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·April 12, 2014·2 min read

An Early Link to Motion Perception

Researchers report human perceptual motion bias in low contrast scenes is encoded within the visual cortex.

This illustration shows an oligodendrocyte myelinating several axons.

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·April 11, 2014·5 min read

Researchers Show Brain Activity Drives Dynamic Changes in Neural Fiber Insulation

Researchers demonstrate brain plasticity also comes from activity dependent changes in oligodendrocyte precursor cell proliferation and myelin.

This is a photograph of neuroscientist V.S Ramachandran.

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·April 11, 2014·2 min read

ARCS Foundation Names V. S. Ramachandran Scientist of the Year

Neuroscientist V.S Ramachandran has been named Scientist of the Year by the ARCS Foundation.

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·April 11, 2014·4 min read

Protein Researchers Closing in on the Mystery of Schizophrenia

In an attempt to understand what happens in the brain of schizophrenics, researchers analysed proteins in the brains of rats who had been given the hallucinogen PCP.