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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.

This image shows the brain being lit up with bright colors.

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·March 6, 2014·3 min read

New High Tech Lab Records the Brain and Body in Action

A new lab at UCSF promises to bridge the worlds of technology and neuroscience to help better understand and treat neurological diseases.

This brain image has the prefrontal cortex labelled.

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·March 5, 2014·3 min read

Researchers Find Drug Therapy That Could Eventually Reverse Memory Decline in Seniors

Researchers believe they have found a drug therapy which could potentially reverse age related memory decline.

These images show the recordings of the neuronal activity.

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·March 5, 2014·3 min read

Plumes in the Sleeping Avian Brain

New research provides deeper insights into the sleeping avian brain.

The image shows a human eye with little white neurons drawn over it.

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·March 4, 2014·2 min read

Motion Sensing Cells in the Eye Let the Brain Know About Directional Changes

Researchers discover our ability to process directional movements is a result of cortical activation of signals which originate from retinal neurons.

This is an anatomical diagram of an eye.

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·March 4, 2014·3 min read

Researchers Discover a Link Between Sharp Vision and the Brain’s Processing Speed

Researchers have discovered new evidence which correlates foveal crowding with the brain's processing speed.

The mushroom cells are highlighted in white and pink in these brain scans.

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·March 3, 2014·3 min read

A Sparse Memory Is a Precise Memory

Researchers discover a key to forming distinct associative memories lies in how information from the senses is encoded in the brain.

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·March 2, 2014·3 min read

Research Reveals First Glimpse of a Brain Circuit That Helps Experience Shape Perception

Researchers observe inhibitory neurons which link olfaction with cognition and memory in mice.

This image is a brain slice showing glycogen accumulation in the brain.

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·February 28, 2014·4 min read

Researchers Reveal the Dual Role of Brain Glycogen

Researchers report an accumulation of glycogen in Lafora disease directly causes apoptosis, triggers autophagy and synaptic failure.

This image shows stained Purkinje cells from a mouse.

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·February 28, 2014·5 min read

Muscle Controlling Neurons Know When They Mess Up

New research unravels how the feedback system between climbing fibers and Purkinje cells works.

This image shows a slice of the visual cortex of an embryonic macaque monkey.

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·February 27, 2014·3 min read

Study Reveals Evolution at Work

New research reveals some unique evolutionary innovations in the brains of primates.

This image shows plastinated brains with alzheimers.

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·February 27, 2014·3 min read

After Death, Twin Brains Show Similar Patterns of Neuropathologic Changes

Researchers compared the brains of twins where one, or both, died with Alzheimer's disease. They discovered many of the twins not only had similar progressions of the disease before death, but also similar combinations of pathologies.