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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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·August 28, 2014·5 min read

Electric Current to Brain Boosts Memory

Using TMS to stimulate the hippocampus, researcher report they were able to improve memory.

This image shows a side by side comparison of a healthy mouse brain and that of a mouse exposed to cocaine.

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·August 28, 2014·5 min read

This is Your Brain’s Blood Vessels on Drugs

Researchers develop a new method for measuring and imaging how quickly blood flows in the brain.

This image shows a study participant in an MRI machine.

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·August 28, 2014·2 min read

Neuroscientists Watch Imagination Happening in the Brain

Using MRI technology, researchers discover where imagination occurs in the brain.

This image shows neurons from a mouse motor cortex, stained green.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·August 27, 2014·4 min read

Study Shows How Movement Affects Hearing

Using a combination of techniques, researcher reveal how the motor cortex can suppress activity in the auditory cortex.

This image shows the injection sites in the dentate gyrus and basolateral amygdala.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·August 27, 2014·5 min read

Changing the Emotional Association of Memories

A new study reports researchers have been able to alter the emotional association of specific memories by manipulating neural circuits in mouse brains.

this image shows the brain with a red box inside it.

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·August 27, 2014·4 min read

Researchers Discover Why Learning Can Be Difficult

Researchers have discovered a fundamental constraint in the brain which could explain why some skills are easier to learn than others.

This image shows cells expressing actin-EGFP.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·August 26, 2014·3 min read

Focus on Naturally Occurring Protein to Tackle Dementia

Researchers provide evidence that an absence of MK2/3 is linked to early signs of dementia.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·August 26, 2014·5 min read

How the Brain Makes Sense of Spaces

A new study reports on how the brain makes sense of new spaces, both large and small.

This image the structure of the glutamate receptor.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·August 25, 2014·2 min read

Structural States of a Brain Receptor Revealed

Researchers have determined the detailed structure and movement of the glutamate receptor.

Featured Neurology Psychology

·August 25, 2014·2 min read

Sleep Drunkenness Disorder May Affect 1 in 7

A sleep disorder known as sleep drunkenness may affect as many as 1 in 7 people, a new study reports.

This image is of the Taung child fossil's skull.

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·August 25, 2014·2 min read

Taung Child’s Skull and Brain Not Human-Like in Expansion

A recent neuroimaging study casts doubt on theories that Austalopithecus africanus' infant brain development was similar to that of modern human infants.