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Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·March 2, 2021·3 min read

Willpower Is the Key to Enhancing Learning and Memory

An increase in theta oscillations in the hippocampus help make learning and subsequent memory more efficient.

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Featured Genetics Neurology Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·January 15, 2021·3 min read

Designer Cytokine Makes Paralyzed Mice Walk Again

Protein hyper-interleukin-6, a "designer protein" that has to be produced via genetic engineering, enabled a paralyzed mouse to walk again.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·January 14, 2021·3 min read

Getting Romantic at Home Wearing an EEG Cap

An EEG study of couples embarking on romantic gestures, such as hugging and kissing, reveal positive emotions are mainly processed in the left hemisphere of the brain.

Featured Genetics Neurology Neuroscience

·December 9, 2020·4 min read

New Biomarker Candidate for ALS

A novel method detected conformational changes to the TDP-43 protein in cerebral spinal fluid associated with ALS.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·December 8, 2020·3 min read

Visual Short-Term Memory Is More Complex Than Previously Assumed

Objects are not only represented in one form of short term memory but in several forms simultaneously.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·October 1, 2020·3 min read

Why Drugs Sometimes Cause Receptor Potentiation Rather Than Inhibition

Receptor potentiation was observed when the antagonists bind to receptors that consist of different subunits, where it acts as a subunit.

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Featured Genetics Neurology Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·August 31, 2020·4 min read

People With Increased Risk of Alzheimer’s Have Deficits in Navigating

Grid cell dysfunction in the entorhinal cortex may explain why people with a genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease have problems with navigation.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·August 21, 2020·3 min read

Why Babies Don’t Always Remember What They Have Learned

The mood in which a baby is in when it learns new information plays a key role in their ability to recall information.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·July 21, 2020·5 min read

Scientists Observe Learning Processes Online in the Brain

Repeatedly administered tactile simulation over a sustained period of time alters neural processing of the hand area in the brain. The observable changes over time illustrate neuroplasticity and shed new light on the process of learning.

Featured Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology

·June 17, 2020·3 min read

What it means when animals have beliefs

Researchers proposed four criteria to understand and investigate animal belief systems. Findings suggest flexible behavior caused by belief is exhibited in the behavior of rats, chimpanzees, and dogs.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles Visual Neuroscience

·May 12, 2020·4 min read

Why visual perception is a decision process

Prediction errors play a role in the context of dynamic perceptual events that take place within fractions of a second. Findings support the hypothesis that visual perception occurs as a result of a decision process.